Example sentences of "now being [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In North Shields the river , the literal reason for the place , is now being seen as a consumption goodie rather than a production possibility . |
| 2 | Caniçal was also once the whaling centre of Madeira , and the old whaling factory is now being converted into a Whaling Museum . |
| 3 | The first area is the teaching of legal awareness in schools , now being undertaken through a collaborative project between the Law Society and the School Curriculum Development Committee on Law in Education . |
| 4 | One in ten of all agreements with a settlement date on or after August 1992 are now being hit by a pay freeze , said Labour Research . |
| 5 | Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere . |
| 6 | There was a vicious irony that it should be Brian , who always confronted the guards when they treated him subhumanly , who was now being abused like a dumb animal . |
| 7 | The Advertiser was continuing to lose council advertising , Mr Isdale added , and public notices were now being placed in a recently established council newsletter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A subset of the data is now being incorporated into a multinational comparative data set being compiled by Professor Gershuny at the University of Bath , which for the first time enables comparisons of trends in time use , for similar social groups , across time and across countries . |
| 10 | Credit cards are now being regarded as a more acceptable method of settling accounts as the credit card companies guarantee settlement of the bill up to the credit limit of their clients ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 11 | Some remarkable men are now being freed after a quarter century in prison . |
| 12 | On the other hand , psychotropic drugs such as minor tranquillizers and antidepressants are now being prescribed on a large scale by general practitioners ( Skegg et al. 1977 ) , and this probably contributed to some extent to the increase in overdoses of these substances . |
| 13 | As his condition deteriorated he was sent to hospital where he is now being treated on a kidney dialysis machine . |
| 14 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 15 | The product will follow HFC134a , which was also piloted at Widnes and is now being made on a full scale plant at nearby Runcorn , with a second currently built in Louisiana , US . |
| 16 | The Young England Rugby Club has been in existence for two years but is now being relaunched as a major part of the RFU youth initiative with its own clear aims and ambitions . |
| 17 | The ‘ Basic Law ’ : a mini-constitution for post-1997 Hong Kong now being prepared by a Peking-appointed committee . |
| 18 | Although initial studies focused on three area , all of them parallel to the existing runway , consideration is now being given to a non-parallel alignment . |
| 19 | The small species , formerly P. africanus , is now being referred to a new species , with P. africanus being restricted to Koru and Songhor , together with the similarly sized but morphologically distinct Rangwapithecus gordoni . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The confrontation with Iraq was accompanied by a radical change in the climate of GCC relations with Iran , hitherto seen as the principal security threat but now being discussed as a possible participant in a wider regional security framework . |
| 22 | The issue is now being considered in a House-Senate conference . |
| 23 | The fictional drama that had seemed to appeal to the better classes was now being offered to a mass society . |
| 24 | 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 ; |
| 25 | It is now being hailed as a possible saviour of many of the notoriously polluting eastern European plants . |
| 26 | Johnson is now being held at a police station in London . |
| 27 | Historical fantasy has been an underlying theme in fashion for some time , but it is now being interpreted in a fascinating variety of ways from the totally hysterical to the perfectly wearable . |
| 28 | The Newbury Railway was originally laid to Brunel 's broad gauge and then relaid to standard gauge and is now being revived with a track gauge of two foot . |
| 29 | These proposals are now being used as a negotiating tool to demonstrate Switzerland 's strength in particular areas . |
| 30 | On the contrary , ‘ From their point of view the RUC is now being used as a political force to impose the Anglo-Irish Agreement on an unwilling majority in the province ’ ( Weitzer , 1987:93 ) . |