Example sentences of "[noun pl] [being] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 2 | Elections for the republican assemblies held there during April-May 1990 [ see pp. 37381-82 ] resulted in the communists being ousted from power by opposition parties , although a direct presidential election in Slovenia was won by the candidate of the Party of Democratic Renewal ( LCS — the renamed Slovene League of Communists — see p. 37381 ) . |
| 3 | I stood on the winner 's rostrum swathed in the Union Jack , the photographers ' light bulbs flashing , the crowd clapping , cheering , other Union Jacks being waved from side to side . |
| 4 | Checks have been made that this bone was not missed during laboratory processing of the pellet samples , and there is little chance of bones being detached from pellets before collection because of the compact nature of barn owl pellets . |
| 5 | After talks with Gorbachev in Moscow on May 3 , Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan announced that he had received assurances that the wounded would be evacuated and that the Soviet authorities would intervene to stop Armenians being deported from communities in border areas of Azerbaijan . |
| 6 | All over Europe it remained the one really insoluble problem and archbishops and bishops from Lund and Tournai in the north to Arles in the south of France and Gniezno in the east were ordered to deprive incontinent priests of their benefices and stop clerical benefices being transferred from father to son . |
| 7 | THE number of pupils being expelled from schools across the region has risen dramatically and experts predict the trend will continue . |
| 8 | Why has Britain dragged its feet on the European directive under the Social Charter to prevent women being dismissed from jobs on the grounds of pregnancy ? |
| 9 | No wonder that the myth of handles being removed from coffins at the time of cremation perpetuates . |