Example sentences of "now being [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations with the present owners of the remains , the Russian Orthodox Brotherhood , are now being conducted by the Mayor of Shaftesbury , Mrs Janet Rider . |
| 2 | For Hinkley B , second in the new series of Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors now being built by the CEGB , there was no public inquiry at all . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many additional patients are now being seen by the Rugby NHS Trust as against last year ; and what percentage increase that represents . |
| 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 | Perhaps it 's the kind of example , in the same way that Westminster Council was held up as an example , and it 's now being criticized by the district auditor . |
| 6 | Strathclyde 's convener , David Sanderson , said there was too much at stake for large and small communities if the region disappeared as a result of the ‘ ill considered process ’ now being undertaken by the Government . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Calls are now being handled by the West Midlands . |
| 12 | England 's far-sighted youth development policy is now being matched by the selectors ' willingness to throw teenagers in at the deep end . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Applications are now being sought by the Tate Gallery for the joint-funded Volkswagen/Turner scholarships , worth £20,000 . |
| 15 | EVEN Joseph 's amazing technicolour dreamcoat is not a patch on some of the jerseys now being worn by the country 's leading goalkeepers . |
| 16 | As a consequence , Anglo-Welsh 's offer for Palatine is now being increased by the addition of 25p in cash per Palatine ordinary share . |
| 17 | Most important are the non-partisan character of questioning and deliberation , the high level of expertise on sub-committees ( now being increased by the addition of new life peers with direct experience of the Commission , the Council of Ministers , or the European Court ) , the reliance on expert outside evidence and specialist advice and the production of a single report , initially prepared for deliberation by clerk or adviser to the sub-committee . |
| 18 | Attempts are now being made by the authors to cross these hybrids with wheat cells , hopefully to produce a wheat-tomato cow ‘ superhybrid ’ . |
| 19 | Plans are now being made by the local branches of CNHC to organise a day of reflection for people working in housing organisations . |
| 20 | Once a way of beating the British winter it 's now being beaten by the upsurge in all-weather pitches outside . |
| 21 | A list of plants that recycle plastic waste is now being checked by the German quality-control institute for the DSD . |
| 22 | In the context of the first part of the hon. Gentleman 's question , I must ask him to appreciate that one of the important matters now being examined by the chief executives of the agencies is the issue of greater pay flexibility and performance pay , so that better results can be achieved , both by individuals and in terms of customer service , from a given amount of pay . |
| 23 | The ‘ Basic Law ’ : a mini-constitution for post-1997 Hong Kong now being prepared by a Peking-appointed committee . |
| 24 | At Question Time in the House , the Prime Minister agreed that a paper submitted by a European Planning Manager , now being studied by the Government and the European Commission appeared to offer real solutions to Britain 's excessive contribution to the European budget . |
| 25 | The Harpers commissioned an indpendent pathologist 's report , which is now being studied by the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | LORD JUSTICE DILLON said that it was not in doubt that if the copy was privileged in relation to the employee 's then claims because obtained for the purpose of advice in relation to those claims , it retained its privileged condition in respect of the subsequent claims now being advanced by the bank : Pearce v Foster ( 1885 ) 15 QBD 114 . |
| 30 | 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 . |