Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | at the moment the only source it 's come from is directed projects . |
| 2 | But where the uproar has come from is from people who have thought that they had got binding court agreements . |
| 3 | ‘ Am I exonerated from being a wimp ? ’ |
| 4 | In that period of time we 'd have dropped from being the largest and preferred supplier to a minority supplier |
| 5 | The impact that it has on these people particularly as the Chair said , the retained service , can be quite profound because they , unlike the whole time firemen can be catapulted from being a joiner one minute into being a rescue operator the next minute . |
| 6 | Considerable prestige will increasingly be enjoyed from being part of those international businesses . |
| 7 | Girls were encouraged to ask for help , play with dolls , take an interest in clothes and dressing up and stay close to parents and discouraged from being noisy and playing rough games . |
| 8 | Those in whom it has taken place are turned from being opponents of civilization into being its vehicles . |
| 9 | The Independent has discovered that another important survey of sexual behaviour connected with Aids research , commissioned by the health department , was prevented from being published . |
| 10 | At the turn of the key the lock is prevented from being opened from the outside . |
| 11 | In this way the hips are prevented from being pushed forward and therefore are able to support the torso more effectively , thus reducing any excess muscle strain . |
| 12 | The forward tilt is admirable but these chairs have a disadvantage : by placing the knees on a pad the feet , with their receptors , are prevented from being placed flat on the floor . |
| 13 | But if all children who might be socially disadvantaged were prevented from being born , the earth would be a thinly populated planet . |
| 14 | So long as I hold the office of Home Secretary , I shall give no countenance to the view that they should not be prevented from being such a danger . ’ |
| 15 | Power must be prevented from being used arbitrarily . |
| 16 | A sale of goods is not prevented from being a sale by description by reason only that , being exposed for sale or hire , they are selected by the buyer . ’ |
| 17 | ( p100 ) This is now given statutory effect by s13(3) of SGA 1979 which provides that : A sale of goods is not prevented from being a sale by description by reason only that , the goods being exposed for sale or hire , they are selected by the buyer . |
| 18 | Your Transport Policy Committee presumably has some thoughts on rail privatisation which are prevented from being published until the House of Commons Transport Select Committee has published its own evidence . |
| 19 | And swallowing hard , still dazed from being flung out of the car 's pathway , Nick Stone nodded and said , ‘ Yes sir . |
| 20 | This whole thing of the bride being , well often not , but frogmarched down the aisle and being transferred from being her father 's property to being her husband 's property |
| 21 | There were seven weaknesses in most of specially provided courses which from April of that year transferred from being funded by the TVEI-related In-service Training ( TRIST ) scheme — which had been managed by the Manpower Services Commission — to the LEA Training Grants Scheme ( LEATGS ) . |
| 22 | Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems . |
| 23 | But the Radicals , the predominant party under the Third Republic suffered from being identified with the failures of the 1930s and attracted less than one vote in ten . |
| 24 | Anita Harris , who followed Camel with Carry on Doctor in 1968 — playing a nurse who looked more sexy in her cap and apron than she had as a belly dancer in the earlier film — suffered from being the butt of Ken 's jokes in both pictures . |
| 25 | In less than a decade Japan could have moved from being the most lightly taxed OECD country to being one of the most heavily taxed . |
| 26 | Whatever the future holds for Northern Ireland , it is clear that Ian Paisley has moved from being a prophet crying in the wilderness to the centre of the unionist stage . |
| 27 | He has moved from being a persecuted minority to a person with full and equal ‘ rights ’ . |
| 28 | In a matter of a few months the firm moved from being an outsider in the specialist insurance audit market ( having about 15% of the top insurance companies , measured in terms of premium income ) to being one of the two market leaders . |
| 29 | The King had moved from being " Defender of the Faith " — a title bestowed by the Pope in Rome in 1521 — to become the dissolver of the monasteries . |
| 30 | Over the long term , income tax has moved from being a tax paid only by the rich to one levied on quite poor people . |