Example sentences of "now [be] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
| 2 | Well over 5,000 units of quota have now been entered for that sale , date to be specified later , but almost certainly in April . |
| 3 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many secondary schools in the London borough of Hillingdon have now been approved for grant-maintained status and how many applications are still outstanding . |
| 5 | Eight schools in Hillingdon have now been approved for grant-maintained status . |
| 6 | The entire herd has now been bought for epidemiological research at about £200 a head over the normal abattoir price . |
| 7 | The passage of the judicature Act tempted some people to think that damages might now be obtained for innocent misrepresentation . |
| 8 | Both Sony and the Koei Group gave various reasons for the split , Sony that its mission of developing the desk-top publishing market on workstations had been accomplished , while the Koei Group indicated that Sony 's NEWS was too narrow a system for the jointly developed software , which will now be converted for other workstations and personal computers , including Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems and Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh . |
| 9 | The 30-year-old forward could now be banned for three months under the ‘ doubling-up ’ system for getting sent off twice in two years . |
| 10 | Sites can now be bought for two week periods , allowing a greater flexibility in marketing planning . |
| 11 | Riding on the back of this successful ‘ First ’ , plans are now being made for further courses in 1992 . |
| 12 | Metrocast already needs frequency-agile paging to cope with the fragmented US market , and this is now being extended for British businessmen who travel to the States . |
| 13 | Designs are now being considered for small ice-lined cabinets for doctors ’ surgeries , so that doctors can have vaccines at hand to immunise any child who comes for treatment . |
| 14 | The recovery action now being recommended for any stall is to move forwards on the stick to unstall the wings by reducing the angle of attack . |
| 15 | The safety recommendations again at the end of the official AIB report reflect this longer term view and , bearing in mind the fact that modern large public transport aircraft are now being used for fifteen or twenty years before they are discarded , the implementation of these recommendations is clearly of the highest importance . |
| 16 | Closed-circuit televisions are now being used for those with a little sight left . |
| 17 | In the future , computerised spatial mapping of the distribution of frequencies in the manner now being used for electroencephalographic mapping of epileptic foci may provide a non-invasive alternative to multiple implanted electrodes to help distinguish between the above explanations . |
| 18 | This procedure is akin to the methods now being used for computerised medical diagnosis , where the symptoms are fed in to the computer and the most likely illness is predicted . |
| 19 | To make matters worse , practices that were valued at twice gross recurring fees a few years ago are now being sold for half recurring fees . |
| 20 | IVF , at first touted as a ’ last resort ’ measure for women with blocked tubes , is now being promoted for another group of women , those who can become pregnant but who are ’ carriers ’ of inheritable conditions such as haemophilia , and who may give birth to a child with the condition . |
| 21 | Those highly accurate perishable goods — such as salad items — that have always been most commonly wasted are now being targeted for special attention . |
| 22 | The best known of these is the Special Needs Action Programme ( SNAP ) originally developed for Coventry primary schools ( Muncey and Ainscow , 1982 ) but now being adapted for secondary schools . |
| 23 | DM reported that , because bulk-loaded film is half the cost of pre-loaded film , it was now being bought for photographic work . |