Example sentences of "[vb past] the new " in BNC.
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| 1 | He met the new left , was sometimes intrigued by it , but it was a different , and largely incomprehensible , world . |
| 2 | The reshuffle came under almost immediate fire from former president Francesco Cossiga , who branded the new administration as a government of national hypocrisy . |
| 3 | As she passed the new couple her beach bag caught the Factor 15 and knocked it off the table . |
| 4 | EC farm ministers agreed the new rules on Saturday to protect high-cost Community producers in areas such as Madeira and Martinique and former colonies in Africa , the Caribbean and the Pacific . |
| 5 | Balcon was forced off the CFC , where places were found both for Alexander Korda , who shared the new mogul 's enthusiasm for ‘ bigger and bigger films , ’ and for Rank himself . |
| 6 | Israel was eventually persuaded to withdraw its tanks to new , secure positions , well back from the Sinai , thus allowing Egypt to achieve some part of its principal aims — on condition that Egypt , for its part , formally recognized the State of Israel and respected the new border , thus allowing Israel to secure some part of its own principal aims . |
| 7 | Both the techniques of bacteriology — the microscope , the preparation of cultures and slides , etc. — and its immediate applicability — the eradication of the diseases of animals and humans — made the new discipline accessible , understandable and appealing . |
| 8 | Britt Allcroft , who made the new series , says that the Reverend W Awdry always left the boundary between reality and magic undefined in Thomas ' world . |
| 9 | But I think the pre er well not the present A nine but the A nine that was there before they made the new one , it was made about eighteen thirty I think . |
| 10 | Such revolutionaries also complain that by adhering so closely to the old subject divisions , in the past characteristic more of GCE O levels than of the CSE , those who devised the new examination missed a great opportunity . |
| 11 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model . |
| 13 | He was one of the first passengers on MARTA , the Atlanta underground , when it opened in 1979 , rode the new tube in Fukuoka two years later and in the following year watched the building of MMTA in Baltimore and the metro in Caracas . |
| 14 | We are all here to support genuine asylum seekers ; that is why we tabled the new clauses . |
| 15 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 16 | The Russians , too , misread the new strategic situation . |
| 17 | The third concert , of Brahms 's Third and First symphonies , revealed the new Karajan at his most lovable , for these were natural , emotional , and — let the word escape at last — profound interpretations : voyages of discovery ; loving traversals of familiar , exciting ground with a fresh eye and mind , in the company of someone prepared to linger here , to exclaim there ; summations towards which many of his earlier , less intimate performances of the works had led . |
| 18 | Philip Ettinger , 37 , the brains behind the bid to launch the link , today revealed the new move which coincides with the end of a three-week consultation period when objections to his proposals must be lodged . |
| 19 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |
| 20 | Chemical analysis and reanalysis and preparation of databases continued , and plotting software for use on personal computers was developed.Two atomic absorption spectrophotometers were rebuilt , and a BGS chemist commissioned the new DMR Fire Assay Laboratory and conducted a workshop on fire assaying during July . |
| 21 | Early in 1992 , we commissioned the new $130-million isomerisation plant at our Lavera refinery in France , on time and under budget . |
| 22 | On this day : the arrest of the Templars for heresy took place in Paris , on the orders of Philip IV , 1307 ; Benedict Arnold was defeated at Lake Champlain , 1776 ; President George Washington laid the foundation stone of the White House , Washington 1792 ; British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of Queenston Heights , 1812 ; Greenwich was adopted as the universal meridian at the Washington Conference , 1884 ; 41 people were killed during a German air-raid on London , 1915 ; Ankara became the new capital of Turkey , 1923 ; Italy declared war on Germany , 1943 ; the Allies liberated Athens , 1944 ; the first London production of the musical show The Pajama Game was presented , 1955 . |
| 23 | Wills , who holds a victory over former world champion Greg Page and was no doubt encouraged by the fact that Derek Williams , whom he had floored and convincingly outpointed in New York this summer , became the new European champion after 55 seconds ' work against Hughroy Currie on Tuesday night , went about his work with pride , determination , and remarkable endurance . |
| 24 | Later he became the New Yorker 's music critic and went on to be music editor of the Listener . |
| 25 | Friday nights became the new vortex of Mancunian activity and all four would-be Smiths spent time there . |
| 26 | Although the practical difficulties of time measurement were such that until the middle of the seventeenth century most clocks had but one hand and the dial was divided only into hours and quarters , the abstract framework of uniformly divided time gradually became the new medium of daily existence . |
| 27 | Mr Bernard Harland became the new record holder in 1987 , with a weight of 48 drams 25 grains for his twin firbobs . |
| 28 | Ernst & Young became the new auditors . |
| 29 | Disco offered an alternative to rock 's boy-meets-girl party conventions and Britain 's dance-floor poseurs , Bowie boys , and girls initially , became the New Romantics , a movement spawning such ambiguous and even asexual stars as Boy George and Marilyn . |
| 30 | James F Hudson became the new Field Officer and also editor of the BDN , which had been edited by an editorial board since Frame 's death , and Mrs C. Laidlow ( Kitty ) , a Lady Welfare Officer at Carlisle , was put in charge of the new office as administrative Secretary . |