Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [verb] a new " in BNC.

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1 LIVERPOOL Council leader Harry Rimmer has been appointed a new director of Inward , the North West inward investment agency based in Warrington .
2 POLICE station cleaner Ted Blight has been given a new job … looking after prisoners in the cells .
3 From this viewpoint , football violence has been given a new meaning since the early 1960s .
4 ‘ The fans have been wanting a new face up front because of our recent goal drought .
5 ‘ Needless to say , ’ adds our man with the scales of justice , ‘ the remaining frogs have been found a new home by the Tees . ’
6 Chris Dick of Linguaphone , which has a joint venture in Russia , reports that to the familiar problems of inflation , bureaucracy and foreign exchange has been added a new threat , piracy , now ‘ an enormous problem ’ .
7 There would also be new roads and possibly other investment : the nearest town to the Sizewell site had been promised a new swimming pool .
8 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 .
9 Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people .
10 I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner .
11 In recent years , however , some scientists have been trying a new approach , ‘ cold fusion ’ , which involves ‘ changing ’ the behaviours of atoms at room temperatures .
12 In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look .
13 Government boffins have been explaining a new weapon that destroys people but leaves houses intact .
14 Ben had been making a new dress for the end of Act I which he promised to bring to Shepherd 's Bush by 5.45 pm , in time for my appearance .
15 A Shetland Pony who was suffering from depression has been given a new outlook on the world .
16 Peter Scudamore has been building a new future since his retirement .
17 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 .
18 St Petersburg 's palaces have been given a new chance .
19 When this stage has been reached a new work will pick them up and , usually by parodic means , make them perceptible again as devices .
20 Since early summer , workmen have been preparing a new home for Mark , at Aston Farm , a mile away .
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