Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] [art] new " in BNC.

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1 It refers to the duty being placed on the new committee , ( a ) to monitor the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland ; and , ( b ) to make recommendations to bus operators and the Secretary of State regarding the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland . "
2 Initially the National Salvation Front ( NSF ) through its Council , represented by an Executive Bureau presided over by Ion Iliescu , assumed legislative authority , with executive responsibility being given to a new provisional Council of Ministers headed by Petre Roman .
3 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 .
4 Supposing they are being formed into a new secret police — with the aim of destroying glasnost and perestroika ?
5 From this source the water — needed by the whole Institution — is drawn , the supply to the tank being furnished by the New River Company . ’
6 In the meantime , the railway 's in-service stock is being repainted in a new dark red and ivory livery , mainly by one locally based volunteer and adorned for the first time with the railway 's insignia .
7 Tribal independence was being crushed by the new might of Army .
8 I am resigned to being addressed by the new name of Pax-Wanxie , but if she is to become a mere conduit of the Paxford philosophy it will be a very great bore .
9 The speed reductions would be achieved , by applying at critical points in the network , some of the same sort of Verkehrsberuhigung measures as those which were at that time being installed in the new rest and play areas .
10 About 5,000 colonists have already moved into the 300,000-hectare Arara reserve , and thousands more are being attracted to the new town and sawmill .
11 It has been argued that the conventional ‘ male breadwinner ’ earning a ‘ family wage ’ is being superseded by a new convention in which both male and female partners spend the major part of their potential working lives in employment .
12 PEOPLE who drop litter from their cars are being targeted through a new campaign by Tidy Northern Ireland .
13 Surplus junior posts were to be converted to consultant posts , with additional service work being met by the new staff grade and a small increase in the number of senior house officers .
14 One of the two crew , the braver , told us it was on account of the work being done on the new landing stage that access was impossible .
15 Progress is also being made with a new concrete exposed-aggregate surface known as ‘ whispering concrete ’ .
16 Manager Chris Morgan said : ‘ There are plans being made for the new financial year , but no firm decisions have yet been made .
17 The recent announcements of salaries and profits being made by the new privatised energy companies whether gas or electricity , are galling in the extreme .
18 After much discussion , the decision is to make arrangements for a three-year transition , with batches of courses being transferred to the new format in time for student enrolment in September 1990 , 1991 and 1992 : in the latter year , all initial student enrolments will be for new-style courses .
19 Almost 250 course proposals from 58 centres were successfully validated : these were traditional courses being transferred to the new system and also a number of innovative courses in areas ranging from Countryside Recreation and Countryside Management to Modern Musicianship .
20 However , the baby is equipped with mechanisms which allow it to respond to the physical difficulties of birth — the breathing response etc. — and it is probable that mechanisms also exist to cope with the circumstances of being thrust into a new world .
21 Erm i i it 's more about landlords sort of being reintegrated into a new mass society .
22 In practice , therefore , it appears that the care programme approach , contrary to the guidelines , was being implemented selectively in the study areas and was not being applied to every new patient accepted by mental health services in these districts .
23 The destination of the remaining carbon is not clear , but Sedjo now proposes that it is in fact being absorbed by the new plantations in temperate lands .
24 Two days later , as he was being moved to a new jail , he was himself shot in full view of millions of TV viewers by a small-time gambler , Jack ruby .
25 Hidden treasures from damp storerooms across Oxfordshire are being moved to a new purpose-built centre , to be put on show for the first time .
26 Where individual dwellings have intermediate floors , these were carried out in traditional timber joisted construction , the joists being hung from the new masonry cross-walls on joist-hangers .
27 At around the same time , the effects were being felt of a new system ( introduced by the government in 1995 ) of individual budgets for each prison — in effect cash limits on what can be spent on staff in each prison — which has also been blamed for giving rise to understaffing .
28 Meanwhile the birds of Felling are being featured in a new wildlife book , sponsored by Coatings and produced by the local council .
29 This possibility , although not yet on the horizon of scientific advances , is already being proclaimed as a new scourge of humankind .
30 Plans are being prepared for a new communications network which would enable rapid and cost-effective exchanges of information between the police national computer and forces , and between police forces themselves .
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