Example sentences of "now being [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both he and his half-back partner , Gary Armstrong , might be forgiven if thoughts turned to British Lions selection for the summer tour to New Zealand but Gavin Hastings , another candidate in that department who is now being touted as Lions skipper , was adamant that performing for Scotland was the only issue at stake . |
| 2 | It is now being recognised that it can be appropriate to use musical settings of the ‘ traditional ’ words in the ‘ new ’ services . |
| 3 | The need for good teamwork is now being recognised as essential . |
| 4 | Using microorganisms in the disposal of hazardous waste is now being developed and this could provide the way forward in cleaning up this toxic legacy . |
| 5 | Robotic aids which perform like this are now being developed and are already being used under laboratory conditions in Bristol . |
| 6 | Those proposals are now being developed and the United Kingdom has been in the forefront of police co-operation in Europe to combat the growing evil of international crime . |
| 7 | The path between North Skelton and Leyland Bridge is now being shunned because of the menace . |
| 8 | That dominance is now being challenged as PC manufacturers slowly come to terms with the potential market for desktop publishing . |
| 9 | Applications for the 1992 award are now being accepted and can be made through only one academic institution . |
| 10 | A total synthesis is not possible given the rate at which new data and techniques are being produced ; the principal difficulty remains the quantity of material that was excavated in the last century under conditions which do not assist in answering the questions now being asked and which now lie , unpublished and unstudied in museum collections throughout England . |
| 11 | The house was one of a row of nineteenth-century brick artisan dwellings whose neat and harmonious proportions were now being ruined as recent prosperity allowed the enlargement of windows and the addition of porches , complete with brass carriage lamps and , Tallboy thought vindictively , bloody tubular bells . |
| 12 | An official opening of the new station is now being arranged and the old station is to be declared surplus to requirements . |
| 13 | It is significant that these allegations are only now being made after we have beaten England in a Test series . |
| 14 | Demands were now being made that the people , or at least the educated and property-owning classes , be given more effective means of making their wishes felt . |
| 15 | Further inquiries were now being made and the substance seized had been sent for scientific analysis . |
| 16 | MAry Cobb FHCIMA , has played the leading role in establishing systems which are now being tested and , it is hoped , adopted during the course of 1993 . |
| 17 | But more adults are now being cautioned and for more serious crime . |
| 18 | Clive Gordon runs The Environment and Development Company , chairs HCIMA 's working group on an environment British Standard ( BS5750 ) now being piloted and is preparing a guide on how to write an environmental policy ( available through HCIMA later this year ) . |
| 19 | The public exhibitions now being mounted and the publication of this leaflet by the Regional Council are intended to augment these procedures . |
| 20 | but we 've got apprentice tenters , I mean er now being trained and there 's er four new spoolers |
| 21 | The view that fat cell proliferation is triggered in infancy is now being questioned as it would appear that there seems to be a critical phase in infancy for this to occur . |
| 22 | The didactic emphasis , she continues , is now being questioned and shifting towards a more patient-centred involvement . |
| 23 | But fears are now being voiced that these new safeguards do not make a complete ‘ package ’ and that the failure of one to work properly might have a ‘ domino effect ’ on the efficacy of others . |
| 24 | A further refinement , now being studied and the logical sequel to the success already achieved , is to develop job identification in the system . |
| 25 | The contribution of the informal care sector , particularly the family , is now being acknowledged and some attempts are being made to interweave the informal care and the formal provision more closely together . |
| 26 | In place of an unbridled power struggle in which almost anything was permissible and extreme instability in relations between states was the norm , it was now being asserted that the task of diplomacy was not to deceive or even perhaps to defeat an opponent , but rather to reconcile conflicting ambitions and help different states to coexist , at least for considerable periods , in a reasonable degree of amity . |
| 27 | Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all . |
| 28 | The trailers were now being repaired and maintained elsewhere by Mansped . |
| 29 | Families from this range were always in search of respectability and , having followed their betters into churches , lecture rooms , and recreational clubs , they were now being told that a certain amount of movie-going need not necessarily be socially harmful . |
| 30 | Congress , this composite is about a deceit , a deceit by the Tory government , of men and women , over their working lives women in particular who have been contributing their stamp all their working lives and are now being told that there is a danger that they will not get their state pensions at sixty . |