Example sentences of "being [vb pp] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another possibility , at that time very speculative , was to see whether allopurinol would prevent uric acid from being formed from xanthine in man . |
| 2 | And it refers to Britain 's own advanced passenger train as carrying ‘ its first fare-paying passengers in a record-breaking run from London to Glasgow before being withdrawn from service for further trials ’ . |
| 3 | Well over 2,400 suggestions have been submitted from a cross section of the Bank and I 'm glad to say a greater number are being received from North of the Border . |
| 4 | Comedian Les Dawson ( above ) is recovering at home after being discharged from hospital in Preston where he was being treated for a blood infection after a prostate operation . |
| 5 | Our survey suggested that , in the three districts studied , people on section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and those who were being discharged after at least six months in hospital were almost always included on care programmes , but for people being discharged from hospital after briefer admissions , for those who were being treated outside hospital and for elderly people with both functional and organic disorders , the decision to formulate a care programme was determined by particular considerations . |
| 6 | The Taligent offering is a 32-bit operating environment being built from scratch around a new object model . |
| 7 | The Taligent offering is a 32-bit operating environment being built from scratch around a new object model . |
| 8 | Jonas Savimbi , leader of UNITA , announced on Oct. 20 that the movement 's general headquarters was being transferred from Jamba to Luanda . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If the module being read is a FOREIGN module , it should be noted that this results in the header file plus all the files defined in the module being transferred from LIFESPAN to the user 's directory . |
| 11 | We also use the word because it has the connotation that the information that we are concerned with is being transferred from environment to enterprise , actually to be used ( good heavens ! ) — by specific users in specific contexts for specific tasks , and is not being transferred just because it seems a nice thing to do . |
| 12 | Three British hostages on their way home from Iraq after being freed from jail in Baghdad , Paul , Michael and Simon . |
| 13 | The three British hostages , who are on their way home from Iraq , after being freed from jail in Baghdad . |
| 14 | As you may have heard in the seven o'clock news , three British hostages are now on their way home from Iraq , after being freed from jail in Baghdad . |
| 15 | They also both attempted to obtain Tour Cards last year and failed , but neither have relaxed despite being prevented from returning to amateur competition during the past year . |
| 16 | In part , these beliefs may be acquired through childhood ‘ socialisation ’ , being transmitted from parent to offspring . |
| 17 | After the desertion of Gilbert de Clare and the escape of Edward , the king 's son [ q.v. ] , from captivity , Fitzjohn was with Montfort on his final campaign and was captured at the battle of Evesham ( 4 August 1265 ) , being saved from death by the royalist Roger de Clifford [ q.v. ] , who had married his niece . |
| 18 | These include specialist drugs , such as erythropoietin and growth hormone , being moved from hospital to primary care , mostly because hospitals are cash limited and primary care budgets are not . |
| 19 | Few of us were used to being jerked from slumber at 6 a.m. every morning and spending the day in continual physical activity . |
| 20 | With more sophisticated design procedures under CAD , the balance of costs is clearly being shifted from manufacture to design and it becomes more important for cost accountants to use their cost analysis at the design phase ( i.e. the ex ante use of activity-based principles discussed earlier ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Old people are being herded from place to place because of the whim of the county council . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Failure to act , at least if it amounts to ‘ gross negligence ’ , may also result in a director being disqualified from office under the Company Directors Disqualification Act where the company has gone into liquidation . |
| 24 | Government attempts to restrict the sale of gin in 1736 are usually considered to have been behind disturbances in that year , but these also involved the resentment of building workers and weavers at being displaced from employment by the cheaper Irish . |
| 25 | Minutes after being escorted from jail by the British vice-consul , Martin phoned his mother . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And because they were prepared to go out and speak about their faith people were being converted from Buddhism to Christianity in their thousands . |
| 28 | Credit and debt repayments for housing , fuel , furniture and children 's clothes tend to have first call on the income , being deducted from benefit at source or paid early in the weekly budgeting cycle . |
| 29 | New escape : A 22 year old prisoner was on the run today after escaping from Group 4 guards in Derby while being taken from court to jail . |
| 30 | A little scared , very curious , ravenously hungry and ready to argue the toss with anyone after being passed from person to person like so many yards of parcelled muslin . |