Example sentences of "is now being [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this is now being challenged by the more aggregative metaphors associated with modular courses , student choice , accessibility and flexibility , credit transfer and part-time study ( Squires 1979 ) . |
| 2 | The Harpers commissioned an indpendent pathologist 's report , which is now being studied by the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 3 | The boreholes were drilled into windows of Mesozoic rock and provide evidence of the sub-Tertiary geology of the North Rockall Trough which is now being explored by a number of oil companies . |
| 4 | Such factors often helped to cement the relationship between a farmer and his workers , but this continuity is now being ruptured by the increasing disinclination of farm workers ' sons and other young rural workers to consider a job on the land . |
| 5 | England 's far-sighted youth development policy is now being matched by the selectors ' willingness to throw teenagers in at the deep end . |
| 6 | A list of plants that recycle plastic waste is now being checked by the German quality-control institute for the DSD . |
| 7 | It is now being replaced by a highly complicated tax that will take two years to value and will be a burden to those on low incomes in high-cost areas . |
| 8 | The belief in ‘ isolated ’ , ‘ primitive ’ hunter-gatherers , rather like the notion of ‘ pristine ’ forest favoured by biologists , is now being replaced by the theory that there seems to have been hundreds and thousands of years of interdependent contact with farmers and even ‘ states ’ . |
| 9 | Exporting invariably requires a great deal of documentation and specialised pricing , a large part of which is now being handled by the new computer system . |
| 10 | As a consequence , Anglo-Welsh 's offer for Palatine is now being increased by the addition of 25p in cash per Palatine ordinary share . |
| 11 | One of the most successful visible FELs uses the 800 MeV Super-ACO storage ring at Orsay , Paris , and is now being supplemented by the separate linac-injected FEL operating at a wavelength of 2–20 . |
| 12 | It is now being used by the major French bridge builder Baudin Chateauneuf , on a new motorway bridge , the Pont de la Planchette . |
| 13 | The mass resignation earlier this year of the Conseil Supérieur de la Recherche Scientifique ( CSRS ) , the official body at the head of French archaeology , has led to the commissioning of a report by the Minister of Culture , Jack Lang , which is now being considered by the CSRS . |
| 14 | I shall not mention his name , for obvious reasons , but his case is now being considered by the HSE . |
| 15 | The mayoress appealed to them to drop the case and this is now being considered by the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 16 | It is hoped that a full scale project will be set in motion at a later date but , because it is primarily operational in nature and the expert system is only a part , it is now being sponsored by the Operations Branches . |
| 17 | The foundation is now being sued by the Violette De Mazia Trust , an organisation funded by the estate of Albert C. Barnes ' former assistant , who headed the foundation 's educational programme . |
| 18 | This is now being managed by the Chief Executive . |
| 19 | The cask is now being repaired by a local funeral director , but there can be no comfort for Mrs. Fieding for the loss of her husband 's ashes ; |
| 20 | Scott ( 1987 ) , for example , has examined the impact of more frequent clearance that is now being practised by the Campa Indians in the Gran Pajonal area of central Peru , where primary and secondary forest is interspersed with savanna and grassland . |
| 21 | ‘ As a result of that the child was taken to a place of safety and is now being accommodated by the council , ’ a council spokesman said . |
| 22 | The Supplement of 1933 is now being superseded by the much more extensive four-volume Supplement , of which three volumes have appeared ( I ( A-G ) : 1972 ; II ( H-N ) : 1976 ; III ( O-Scz ) : 1982 ) , and the last ( Se-Z ) is due in 1985 . |
| 23 | This , like the illegal subsidies Renault received , is now being investigated by the Commission . |
| 24 | Record Companies : The state recording company has held a monopoly up to now , but this is now being eroded by the emergence of independent labels . |