Example sentences of "[is] [being] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's being tackled from three angles : more efficient burning to reduce output at source , exhaust after-treatment and devising cleaner fuel . |
| 2 | Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound . |
| 3 | And Matthew … poor Matthew ! — even now he 's being chased from pillar to post , on stage and TV at home and abroad — to satisfy the cuddly trio 's craving for mischief and mayhem ! |
| 4 | Meanwhile the foreign office is also being criticised for failing to help a man who 's being prevented from leaving India . |
| 5 | wondering what 's being kept from her , and cry — |
| 6 | He 's being ruled from London , and he 's not used to that . |
| 7 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 8 | ‘ Your father 's being released from hospital at lunchtime , ’ Damian drawled . |
| 9 | mm , erm the immortal soul belief is not a physical belief , it 's something that 's being had from , from guesswork from them |
| 10 | ( Similar allegations in 1971 led to one MP 's being suspended from the House . ) |
| 11 | The data base of the project is being constructed from a wide range of sources , including reports , documentation on the development of the Political Studies Association , and interviews with early members of the association . |
| 12 | Net assets per share grew from 169p to 212p and the dividend is being raised from 1.55p to 1.75p , with a 1p final payable on May 29 . |
| 13 | Financing of around £2.8 million is being raised from private sources by the Fundación Principe de Asturias . |
| 14 | Er , other money is being raised from local businesses , we 've got support from Otter Nurseries and we 've got support from as well . |
| 15 | It is strongly rumoured that the eligibility ceiling for the increased aid formerly available to ‘ Objective One ’ areas is being raised from 75 to 80 per cent , thus allowing the Highlands and Islands to scrape into consideration . |
| 16 | Disk defragmentation — this will look uncannily like the Norton Utilities Speed Disk program , and since it is being licensed from Symantec ( the publishers of Norton Utilities ) there 's every reason why it should . |
| 17 | A building , which formed part of the old Morris Motor works is being saved from the bulldozer to become part of a museum . |
| 18 | Nothing is being hidden from you . |
| 19 | Safe , too , is John Birt , Hussey 's choice as director-general-designate , although morale is so low within news and current affairs at the BBC that rumours are circulating of a secret haven within ITN where ammunition is being collected from dissident BBC executives to try to blast Birt out . |
| 20 | For example , they associate liberal democracy with the core countries , arguing that such a system is only sustainable over substantial periods in countries which are exploiting the entire world-system , and can ‘ buy-off ’ popular demands from their own residents because of the wealth that is being appropriated from other countries . |
| 21 | The interim dividend is being cut from 2.53p to 1½p on August 17 , but the board intends maintaining last year 's 4.4p total . |
| 22 | THE interest rate for Save & Prosper credit card holders with Robert Fleming who pay an annual fee is being cut from 1.69% to 1.65% a mont from December 1 , but the annual fee is upped from £8 to £10 from Janaury 1 . |
| 23 | Earnings per share fell 64 per cent to 5.1p and the total dividend is being cut from 10.3p to 6.5p , after a final trimmed from 5.8p to 3.5p . |
| 24 | The final payment to shareholders is being cut from 4.25p to 2.1p , to make a total of 4.2p for the year , down from 6.35p last time . |
| 25 | And there will be specific discussions in later chapters concerning the different kinds of change that teachers are commonly involved with : change in classroom practice , change in school policy and change that is being imposed from outside the school . |
| 26 | This particularly applies where it appears the public is being parted from its money without receiving , or being likely to receive , anything in return . |
| 27 | Councillor Ron Muir , chair of the Transportation Committee , said : ‘ Clarence is being developed from a system of complaints into an information service for road users and this is where it ties in with Radio Forth . |
| 28 | Put even more succinctly , one can say that those who ignore Freud 's Totem and Taboo — not to mention the polytraumatic theory which is being developed from it — and deny that there is any kind of archaic heritage , be it innate or acquired , commit the elementary methodological error of imagining that in every generation human psychology comes from nowhere and that the modern individual is not the product and recapitulator of the archaic past . |
| 29 | His campaign is being run from a Darlington hotel . |
| 30 | He is being buffeted from all corners — a victim of circumstance trapped at the centre of a party more divided even than in the final days of Lady Thatcher . |