Example sentences of "[noun] have been [vb pp] 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 | ‘ Needless to say , ’ adds our man with the scales of justice , ‘ the remaining frogs have been found a new home by the Tees . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | There would also be new roads and possibly other investment : the nearest town to the Sizewell site had been promised a new swimming pool . |
| 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 . |
| 8 | In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look . |
| 9 | A Shetland Pony who was suffering from depression has been given a new outlook on the world . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | St Petersburg 's palaces have been given a new chance . |
| 12 | When this stage has been reached a new work will pick them up and , usually by parodic means , make them perceptible again as devices . |