Example sentences of "now [being] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission 's decision to allocate £1 million of its budget for hospital and community health services to support developments in primary care illustrates the imaginative approach now being adopted by managers who have broken free of a mind set concentrating on acute hospital services and have started to use their resources to respond to need and not demand . |
| 2 | Equally , the ‘ signposting ’ role now being adopted by UNEP 's GRID project — which is expected to offer on-line access to a catalogue of environmental data sets and details of the responsible agencies in 1991 — is to be welcomed . |
| 3 | They 're now being kept by French 's aunt , Miriam Carter . |
| 4 | The inquiry begun by him was now being conducted by West Yorkshire Police . |
| 5 | The stress response in relation to being overweight is now being recognized by professionals . |
| 6 | Lack of rainfall means that they have survived intact for hundreds of years , though they are now being threatened by tourists . |
| 7 | With a realisation that many of the profession 's tasks , in both the private and the public sector , now being undertaken by graduates and full members of the Institution could equally well be done by qualified technicians , the role , influence and recognition of technician courses is bound to increase . |
| 8 | Pocket money now being hit by recession |
| 9 | The case is now being handled by Cheshire County Council . |
| 10 | And in my view what they could n't achieve on that night in Parliament in the nineteen forties is now being achieved by stealth , slicing bits and pieces away as they go along . |
| 11 | Wallace , strongly influenced by the multi-dimensional environment and circumstances under which he had perceived the Theory , had also anticipated its very limitations , which are only now being explored by Neo-Darwinists and modern theorists of evolution . |
| 12 | The Alliance and Leicester initiative is among measures to stem staff turnover now being explored by finance sector companies as the labour market tightens . |
| 13 | The site of the works which at one time covered some 600 acres is now being re-developed by Tarmac ( Swindon ) Ltd. , but part of the works including No. 19 Shop and the adjoining No. 20 Shop will be preserved . |
| 14 | In Burgess Hill , a Miss Mary Hare had started a private school which was producing many academic successes , and the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's school at Northampton , now being run by Frederick Ince-Jones , was still turning out large numbers of academic successes . |
| 15 | The question now being asked by UK publishers is how much of the damage to ELT sales was permanent . |
| 16 | In addition , many of those who have had their homes repossessed are now being chased by building societies and banks for the short-falls arising after the sale of their homes , many of which are being sold for less than the mortgage owing on them . |
| 17 | Mrs Craig 's children Kelly Ann , 4 , and Stephen , 2 , are now being raised by Corporal Craig 's family in Carrickfergus . |
| 18 | Senator McGowan 's chief concern was for ‘ the poor people of Fintown who had to stand beside the sod ditch ’ and whose future was now being jeopardised by people who ‘ wanted to get on the bandwagon ’ , but he complimented Councillor McCaffrey ‘ if he has shares ’ , though he said he had none himself . |
| 19 | Unfortunate , because I was on ramp duty practically every night , finding the work somewhat impersonal too , the selections now being made by loudspeaker ( such was the weight of traffic ) , and having little to do but stand there drinking and shouting with my colleagues — thus denying Herta the kind of undivided attention that every young wife craves … |
| 20 | On the other hand , here , as in other parts of the Pyrenees , those who are left are now being joined by others who have retired or who have bought a second home in the foothills . |
| 21 | However , it is interesting to note that in a City History of 1830 , reference is made to ‘ the ideal dwellings for the working class now being erected by Mr. Penniston . ’ |
| 22 | Swift changes in the dimensions covered in any linear design are nowhere more obvious than in Ashton 's five abstract ballets and his example is now being followed by David Bintley in his Choros and Consort Lessons . |
| 23 | With a few notable exceptions , canoeists still seem to believe that the challenge to the Rights of Way Act now being mounted by fishermen , landowners and self-styled conservationists in the House of Lords does not concern them . |
| 24 | Both cars cars are now being examined by crash experts . |
| 25 | The Museum will be investigating post-war fashion photography in depth in a show now being prepared by Martin Harrison and we hope to address other aspects of photography in greater depth on future occasions . |
| 26 | This afternoon Hanger was moved from Grendon prison and he 's now being questioned by police in Dorset . |
| 27 | A woman is now being questioned by police . |
| 28 | The driver ran away from the scene , but is now being questioned by police . |
| 29 | Three other people including a woman , all believed to be from the one family who were arrested at the scene are now being questioned by police , while three rifles recovered in a follow up search are being examined by forensic experts . |
| 30 | Last year there were 80 breeding pairs which produced 100 fledglings — they are now being studied by Durham University . |