Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of his being sacked from Cunard for his trade union activities seems to be untrue . |
| 2 | She loathed being parted from Ricky for a second , and Felicia , the ponies Ricky and Drew had lent her were still very green |
| 3 | Then the prime minister 's Tristar jet was buffeted by freak 200-mile-an-hour winds before being diverted from Ottawa to Montreal due to fog . |
| 4 | Beneath them is a freshly lettered gravestone being carried from Sedbergh to Hawes : |
| 5 | That man was being transferred from Dartmoor to the Isle of Wight . |
| 6 | Evaristo Porras Ardila , linked to the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel , was being held in the south-western city of Pasto after being deported from Ecuador on Sunday night . |
| 7 | The report says that the waste may start being moved from Sellafield in 1988 . |
| 8 | The Customs and Excise Department is being moved from London to Liverpool , with the new office housing 1,800 staff . |
| 9 | The prisoner , who is serving a five year sentence for burglary was being moved from Dartmoor to Bullingdon Prison in Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | There are accounts of dogs of Mastiff type being exported from Britain to Rome through an agent known as the Procurator Pugnacium ( provider of dogs ) . |
| 11 | French farmers recently sought to protect their markets by setting fire to a lorry load of live sheep being exported from Britain for slaughter in an abbattoir in mid-France . |
| 12 | So there are two records being achieved here with the operation of ‘ The Sarum ’ being hauled from Waterloo to Salisbury and back on Friday , February 5th . |
| 13 | In the beginning , only coal was transported on the line but by 1814 passengers were being conveyed from Kilmarnock to the coast at Troon , at weekends and on holidays . |
| 14 | The empty 400ft Demetrius , being towed from Dunkirk in northern France to Greece for scrap , was wrecked after it ran aground at Prawle Point in south Devon . |
| 15 | He was now being repatriated from Germany via Britain , and had come to Edinburgh to visit his aunt , my mother-in-law . |
| 16 | Mohammed Siyad Barre fled to Kenya on April 29 after forces of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) captured the south-western town of Garbaharrey where the former President had been living since being ousted from Mogadishu in January 1991 [ see pp. 37946-47 ] . |
| 17 | Despite being reached from Belfast in less than an hour , and despite the fact that Slieve Donard towers 850m above Newcastle , one of Northern Ireland 's most popular seaside resorts , the hills are rarely visited . |
| 18 | Through Hoskyns he had come for the time under the influence of the leader of anti-rational European theology , Karl Barth , who at this moment was back in Basle after being expelled from Germany by the Nazis . |
| 19 | So as prostitutes are being deterred from Swindon by big fines and clear up campaigns , they 're taking the problem elsewhere ; to the cities like London , where the fines are low and demand for their work is high . |
| 20 | Elizabeth of Spalbeck imitated the Passion of Christ at the Canonical Hours : at Matins , beating herself as she remembered Christ being taken with swords and staves ; at Prime , walking with arms twisted behind her back like a bound thief to commemorate Christ being led from Caiaphas to Pilate and then Herod ; at Sext , None and Evensong , stretching herself in a cruciform posture . |
| 21 | The snazzy looking range of Cap Horn sailing yacht performance instruments is now being imported from France by Burmarc Ltd . |
| 22 | Trees are being imported from Florida for the vast Little Britain office complex near the Barbican . |
| 23 | It was like being exiled from Paris to a mall provincial town . |
| 24 | The story about a whole bloodstained cupboard being removed from Belmodes to a police laboratory went the rounds with the speed of light , being especially well received at Teddy Touch 's outfit , marketing street clothes known as Touchline . |
| 25 | Yes , there 's the er sweat rag as you call it being tossed from DeFreitas to Lawrence who , as he dries his hands rather like a towel . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If it was being pointed out to her that she had been born to a life of political responsibility and not simply pleasure by one member of the powerful and able house of Guise in France , the message was being reinforced from Scotland by another : her mother , Mary of Guise . |
| 28 | The Institute bankers were being changed from Lloyds to the Royal Bank of Scotland in order to obtain better interest rate bands on cash deposited . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |