Example sentences of "[was/were] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That man was being transferred from Dartmoor to the Isle of Wight . |
| 4 | According to " diplomatic sources " ( as cited in The Independent of April 4 ) , apart from handing over the Lockerbie subjects , Libya was being asked by Petrovsky to ( i ) provide the UK government with details of its contacts with the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) ; ( ii ) make a written renunciation of " terrorism " ; ( iii ) close five training camps used by the Palestinian Abu Nidal and other groups ; and ( iv ) extradite an individual who had allegedly been involved in the 1988 attack on the Greek cruise ship City of Poros . |
| 5 | The prisoner , who is serving a five year sentence for burglary was being moved from Dartmoor to Bullingdon Prison in Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | By November 1965 , the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association was being launched in London to the full glare of press publicity by James Dance , MP for Bromsgrove , by then another leading figure in the campaign . |