Example sentences of "[being] [verb] to [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Toxics Campaign Fund , a US-based charity says the unexplained illnesses of hundreds of Gulf war veterans may be due to being exposed to radiation from weapons tipped with depleted uranium . |
| 2 | THE explorers Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud were tucking into a hearty breakfast of eggs yesterday after being airlifted to safety from the icy wastes of the Antarctic . |
| 3 | His wife 's share in the partition of the vast Gloucester estates made him one of the leading territorial magnates and led to his being summoned to Parliament from November 1317 . |
| 4 | Only a few mills were built specifically for silk , the majority being converted to silk from corn milling . |
| 5 | The terminal 's other metering system — stabilised crude oil meters ( SCOMS ) , which measured the amount of stabilised oil being sent to storage from the separate Brent and Ninian processing trains — became redundant after PIMS commingling last year . |