Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this small group tried to draw up a new market contract , bargaining would be protracted because of the known absence of alternative partners . |
| 2 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 3 | When the chief executive wants to take up a new product , he selects one of them as ‘ project engineer ’ . |
| 4 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 5 | A lawyer might be encouraged to work for , say , professional arrangements which opened up the profession 's services to the general public ; or a chemist might seek to reduce the impact of the chemical industry on the environment ; or a doctor might act to bring about a new balance between preventive and restorative medicine , as practised by the profession . |
| 6 | ( d ) Restraint covenants Whenever it is intended to open up a new office the partners must as a matter of urgency consider the adequacy of the restraint covenants to which they have agreed to submit themselves and which they have imposed on their key employees . |
| 7 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 8 | The Transport Secretary has decided to set up a new rail pension scheme to safeguard their interests . |
| 9 | It was also decided to draw up a new party programme along social democratic lines in advance of multiparty elections in Slovenia in April . |
| 10 | Bell Labs plans to spin off a new company , Echo Logic Inc , which will offer binary code conversions enabling Macintosh applications to run natively on IBM 's Unix-based AIX , Systems Network and Integration reports . |
| 11 | Julia seemed to take on a new lease of life and now that the weather was improving she often walked to Carrie 's house or to see Bridie and her family . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got to work out a new course . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And anyway , Marius said this boy was coming over and he was going to draw up a new will , and would we witness it ? … ’ |
| 14 | I have been told to fill in a new form to be put on the waiting list but you need a permanent address to fill out one and I have n't got one . ’ |
| 15 | In the present case the effect is helped by the realistic context , since the storm is still raging outside and whenever the door is opened to let in a new character the form-generating music rushes in as well in the shape of the hurricane . |
| 16 | Now it 's my turn to perform that task and I am sure you are all going to turn over a new leaf and make things easy for me . |
| 17 | I 've got to take up a new attitude with him . |
| 18 | The man began to fill in a new form . |
| 19 | Thereafter , a general election would take place and the legislators would be invited to draw up a new constitution on Dominion lines . |
| 20 | in beginning to map out a new area of study |
| 21 | The advantage of this scheme is that you do n't have to think up a new name of each backup — the nesting of one directory within another takes care of that . |
| 22 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 23 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
| 24 | A commission was appointed to draw up a new constitution which would be put to a referendum in mid-1990 . |
| 25 | At Stratford-upon-Avon , the Bishop of Worcester ( who owned the entire manor ) obtained the grant of a market in 1196 and proceeded to lay out a new town forthwith . |
| 26 | The Russians proceeded to lay out a new town . |
| 27 | I do n't want to have to take out a new mortgage every time I move up the ladder . |
| 28 | Hawkins withdrew from this dangerous line of business , though he felt his enterprise in trying to open up a new line of trade deserved recognition and he put a black slave on his coat-of-arms . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ The new government is trying to set up a new country but they have no natural resources and they are desperately short of everything . |
| 30 | The Assembly also approved the leadership purge of June and July , when six high-ranking officials in the ruling Khmer People 's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ) had been arrested for trying to set up a new party [ see also pp. 37598-99 ] . |