Example sentences of "is [being] [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Protection where the BEC builder is employed by the customer ( known as a standard contract ) is being increased from projects worth £500-£40,000 to those worth £500-£100,000 . |
| 7 | The Alarm Discount where buildings and contents are insured is being increased from 25% to 30% on the contents portion of the premium where alarms have a direct connection to a central station . |
| 8 | The Customs and Excise Department is being moved from London to Liverpool , with the new office housing 1,800 staff . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Public funding is being withdrawn from research and development which is of direct benefit to growers — like the evaluation of different varieties in the National Fruit Trials at Brogdale — but the Government will still be paying for a substantial amount of horticultural research at a number of centres spread across the country . |
| 11 | A plea to Prime Minister John Major is being made from Loftus Market Place today . |
| 12 | Using both questionnaire and interview techniques , information is being obtained from staff teaching on the courses , from students and graduates , and from employing companies . |
| 13 | More of our ice cream is being imported from France , not because of the quality of our product but because of the shortage of milk . |
| 14 | In effect part of the war is being fought from stocks . |
| 15 | The payment to shareholders is being paid from reserves for the second year running , though earnings per share jumped from 3p to 12p . |
| 16 | Egglescliffe School Orchestra hopes to strike the right notes at the National Festival of Music for Youth which is being held from July 8 to 11 . |
| 17 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has followed IBM Corp in introducing five new DPX/20 servers and an entry-level two-dimensional colour graphics diskless workstation based on the Power RISC architecture and a RAID technology disk array subsystem — the CLARiiON is being bought from Data General Corp . |
| 18 | She tells Karen that Victor is being excluded from school indefinitely for bullying and for kicking Joan . |
| 19 | Brushwood is being harvested from woodlands in the Ipswich area by Bill Foreman and other coppice workers to help stabilise the river bed of the Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire . |
| 20 | The search for the missing crewmen is being co-ordinated from RAF Pitrivie |
| 21 | Operation of the network is being passed from PTT Telecom to its Unisource Business Networks joint venture , which will run it from its International Network Management Centre in The Hague . |
| 22 | is not a vehicle to which the Motor Vehicles ( Type Approval ) ( Great Britain ) Regulations 1979 applies but which is being driven from premises of the manufacturer by whom it was made , or of a distributor of vehicles or dealer in vehicles , to premises of a distributor of or dealer in vehicles of the purchasers of the vehicle , or to premises of a person obtaining possession of the vehicle under a hiring agreement or hire-purchase agreement . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , as was already thought , previous work on MVS Repository has been scrapped and the mainframe software is being rewritten from scratch so it can integrate with the networked repository . |
| 24 | The dividend total is being lifted from 17.44p to 18p , with a 12.33p final on July 24 . |
| 25 | With £10.8m cash under its belt , and earnings up 7 p.c. to 12½p a share , the payout is being lifted from 4.31p to 43/4p , with a 3.3p final on July 7 . |
| 26 | Increasingly , economic issues take greater and greater precedence over social concerns and the responsibility for welfare is being removed from state control . |
| 27 | Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 VX653 will take-up residence with The Fighter Collection ( TFC ) at Duxford , where it will be restored to flying condition ; Mosquito T.III TW117 is being removed from display and placed in temporary storage . |