Example sentences of "now [being] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Clearly the need for works of this kind was now being felt in foreign offices . |
| 2 | Space is now being employed in social science in relation to each half of the structure-action dichotomy and as a device for bridging the gap between them . |
| 3 | Never again , because those resources , now being consumed at vast speed in the Gulf , should have been used to stave off world recession , build new infrastructure , encourage better education and training — at least that 's where the UK 's £3 billion or more share of the total cost could have gone . |
| 4 | The average yield from these forests is about 20 cu.m/ha/year , but yields of up to 50 per cent more are now being achieved with new plantations . |
| 5 | In exhorting local authorities to ensure that there is sufficient land for housebuilding ( and that adequate consultations are maintained with the industry ) , emphasis is now being placed on five-year supply' periods . |
| 6 | The work earmarked for the Alton plant also includes creating additional treatment capacity to cope with the waste from households in the out-lying villages who are now being placed on main drainage . |
| 7 | The only proposal that even remotely echoes the spirit of that full employment act is the $35-billion urban rescue package urged by big-city mayors before the LA riots as a way to combat recession , and now being pushed with fresh ardour by Boston 's mayor , Ray Flynn , Governor Jerry Brown and the Congressional Black Caucus . |
| 8 | Designed as an isolation hospital in the 1890's , Over has cared for elderly patients since the 1960's , patients that are now being moved to modern accomodation more in keeping with the 1990's . |
| 9 | At the other end of the yard , carpenters were busy around a huge , gaily decorated cart , the four sides now being covered with elaborate cloths and carvings . |
| 10 | Later , from a nearby height Wolverine Squad spied many other corpses of Karkazon natives laid out in sinister rune patterns along one dismal lacquered boulevard — spoor of the Boars , now being exorcised with burning incense and sprinkled acid by some raving Sagramoso cultist guarded by skaters . |
| 11 | This downward mobility is now being reinforced by educational changes that operate not only to prevent the most disadvantaged children from benefiting from the increased degree of upward social mobility , but also prevent many of them entering the labour market at all . |
| 12 | Comments are now being sought from interested parties on the rivers future direction |
| 13 | According to exile sources in Vienna , cows are now being treated like Romanian women — ie , subjected to a monthly gynaecological examination just to make sure their fertility is not being interfered with because population increases are the order of the day . |
| 14 | These agents are now being tested in clinical trials with people at risk . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The studies that I have described , concentrated in the field at Henfaes , are now being extended by deliberate experimentation within the field . |
| 17 | For instance , suppliers to transport and defence industries are now being faced with strict safety and reliability specifications and do not win contracts if they can not demonstrate they meet them . |
| 18 | The van is now being examinied by forensic experts . |
| 19 | Major 's administration may be remembered for bringing the community care changes into being , but this is another Thatcher legacy now being implemented in financial crisis . |
| 20 | Western trade unions have both the resources and the expertise to assist the workers in forming active free trade unions to combat from counter-balance the free market economy now being constructed in Eastern Europe . |
| 21 | Er , the European project goes on and for many of the newer generations in this place , it 's not longer an article of faith er but a part of the political landscape that has to be dealt with on merit and it 's all the more ludicrous therefore Mr Deputy Speaker , that the Conservatives ' internal divisions over Maastricht have led to a situation where candidates for the ever more important European elections are only now being selected in certain seats , just fourteen weeks before the election . |
| 22 | The great ragbag of reforms now being discussed behind closed doors will probably be displayed on January 17th , when the Commons is to debate a report on modernising its finances and management . |
| 23 | ‘ The whole affair has shown deficiencies in our controls , which are now being removed with considerable effort , ’ Vannotti said . |
| 24 | Between 70 and 80 per cent of psychiatric admissions are unemployed and almost all patients now being discharged from long-stay wards have no work . |
| 25 | In this context , the current postwar peace proposals now being advanced in Western capitals are merely the icing on the global security cake . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They 're now being taken in Iraqi buses to Baghdad and are expected here in the early hours of the morning , the authorities say they 'll then be free to leave the country . |
| 28 | Unemployment levels amongst school-leavers are such that many of the casual and part-time jobs once filled by those of retirement age are now being taken by young people . |
| 29 | Players are now being offered on free transfers by clubs , just to cut their wage bills ’ . |
| 30 | This general tectonic coral atoll problem has been the one to receive the most attention in the past , though it is now being displaced by morphological , ecological and sedimentation problems ( Stoddart and Steers , ( 1977 ) . |