Example sentences of "have be [verb] [art] new lease " in BNC.
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1 | Capita Group , the management services company best known for collecting poll tax and operating TV licence detector vans but which makes most of its money operating computers for local authorities , has been given a new lease of life by John Major 's re-election . |
2 | Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows . |
3 | Moreover , there remains the failure to refer to the lukewarm approach of the House of Lords to the Barras principle , the presumption that when Parliament continues to use a word which has been interpreted by the courts it intends the word to continue to have the judicial meaning , but the author can no doubt contend that the doctrine has been given a new lease of life by the Court of Appeal in EWP Ltd v. Moore , and A-G v. Brotherton . |
4 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
5 | American mediation , had been given a new lease of life by the Russian Revolution . |
6 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
7 | The gymnasium , swimming pool and even classrooms have been given a new lease of life as part of a timeshare development — such facilities having been a positive attraction to buyers . |