Example sentences of "was [being] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonas Savimbi , leader of UNITA , announced on Oct. 20 that the movement 's general headquarters was being transferred from Jamba to Luanda . |
| 2 | That man was being transferred from Dartmoor to the Isle of Wight . |
| 3 | According to " diplomatic sources " ( as cited in The Independent of April 4 ) , apart from handing over the Lockerbie subjects , Libya was being asked by Petrovsky to ( i ) provide the UK government with details of its contacts with the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) ; ( ii ) make a written renunciation of " terrorism " ; ( iii ) close five training camps used by the Palestinian Abu Nidal and other groups ; and ( iv ) extradite an individual who had allegedly been involved in the 1988 attack on the Greek cruise ship City of Poros . |
| 4 | The prisoner , who is serving a five year sentence for burglary was being moved from Dartmoor to Bullingdon Prison in Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | The more I researched , the more I realised that I was missing the dog that did n't bark — and that was all the stuff that was being done by women to men , that nobody wanted to talk about . |
| 6 | By October Eva was being farewelled from Australia to " her first appointment on missionary service to the Howard Institute in Southern Rhodesia " ( Australian War Cry November 15th 1952 ) . |
| 7 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 8 | By November 1965 , the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association was being launched in London to the full glare of press publicity by James Dance , MP for Bromsgrove , by then another leading figure in the campaign . |
| 9 | Last Friday after a court appearance he was being taken by taxi to Bullingdon Prison in Oxfordshire . |