Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began work as a mining engineer in Lanarkshire and applied to Alexander Hamilton Douglas , tenth Duke of Hamilton [ q.v. ] , for permission to open a new mine on his land , but was refused on the grounds that he was too young for such responsibility . |
| 2 | When , in 1150 , the citizens of La Rochelle had asked the Bishop of Saintes for permission to build a new parish church to accommodate the growing number of worshippers , they had met with a refusal . |
| 3 | A series of attempts to form a new coalition government had failed , and on 5 May President Coty sent a message to de Gaulle , asking whether he would be willing to enter into negotiations to form a government . |
| 4 | OFFICIALS in Elvis Presley 's home county have filed a lawsuit demanding the state of Tennessee to launch a new investigation into the singer 's death . |
| 5 | After a curious military episode — he ran away from Cambridge to join the 15th Dragoons — he arrived in Bristol in 1795 full of plans to establish a new system of society , called Pantisocracy ; this word is explained on p. 80 , but what it meant in practice was the rather grandiose idea of founding a new American colony . |
| 6 | Protestors are claiming that proposals to enlarge a trunk road are part of plans to build a new motorway . |
| 7 | Sometimes an oil exploration company is unable to provide sufficient collateral to support the necessary borrowing of funds to develop a new oil discovery , in which case a separate company is established to obtain the necessary finance . |
| 8 | ‘ Fine kind of friendship to kick a new piece of work in the teeth . ’ |
| 9 | A WOMAN who stole thousands of pounds from a pub 's Christmas savings club has moved out of town to start a new life , a court heard yesterday . |
| 10 | Maybe there is room to use this power of attraction to create a new method of live rock performance . |
| 11 | Now in we have also consulted with the Department of Transport about our proposal and the Department of transport have no objections to the use of the A sixty four north east of York to serve a new settlement . |
| 12 | Typically they have been started by an entrepreneur who brought together a bright , dedicated , hard-working group of colleagues to market a new service or a new product . |
| 13 | Her surprise stemmed from the fact she had walked out on him two years earlier , sworn her friends to secrecy and moved hundreds of miles to make a new life for herself . |
| 14 | A COMPANY behind plans to build a new village on the outskirts of Darlington is considering appealing against the rejection of its development by town planners . |
| 15 | Ernest Bevin , leader of the new force in the unions , the general workers , resented the attempts of intellectuals like Cripps to elaborate a new Party Policy which ignored decisions taken by the Trades Union Congress . |
| 16 | If the plaster is still in reasonable condition , have the walls lined with bitumen paper or brush them with a waterproofing liquid , adding battens treated with a preservative , and hang with plasterboard to make a new surface in front of the old one . |
| 17 | British Aerospace workers fear a proposed deal with Indonesia to market a new airliner could threaten more jobs at Prestwick . |
| 18 | On 1 March 1830 he was appointed gardener to Charles Stanhope , fourth Earl of Harrington , at Elvaston Castle , where he took up his post on 2 August , with instructions to create a new garden . |
| 19 | A follow-on project is under way to develop a new version , CLE-2 , having capabilities for reasoning and for co-operative response . |
| 20 | A plan is under way to build a new YMCA home on Melland Street , near the landscaping area . |
| 21 | ‘ Because I ran your mother into Dublin to get a new wedding outfit . |
| 22 | A Darlington woman is looking for people to join a new knitting group to make clothes for visitors to Tom Raine Court , the Salvation Army Hostel in the town . |
| 23 | On April 14 , 1990 , the Foreign Ministers of the two countries met in Dakar to discuss a new framework for co-operation . |
| 24 | This Report highlights some of the changes that trade unions have already experienced over the recent years in attempts to explore a new style of trade unionism that is in tune with the needs of working people . |
| 25 | A teller for the motion to make no further addresses to the king , Evelyn was later involved in plans to make a new peace approach to disengage the king from the Scots , and during the Newport negotiations he urged that extremist measures should be tempered while negotiations continued . |
| 26 | Labour MP 's Jo Richardson and Gavin Strang , are at present putting forward proposals in parliament to introduce a new clause to the proposed Employment Bill which would make such discrimination illegal . |
| 27 | After Macedonia 's Prime Minister-designate Peter Gosev had " returned the mandate " given him in July to form a new government , his party — the ( ex-communist ) Social Democratic Alliance of Macedonia — presented party leader Branko Crvenkovski as Prime Minister-designate on Aug. 13 . |
| 28 | Smith became a Carnegie trustee , and it was thanks to the association between the two men that Keighley became the first town in England to acquire a new Carnegie free library . |
| 29 | At first he was associated with a motley collection of opposition leaders who tried from Thailand to organise a new resistance movement ( the Communists and the Karens were still in the field : Than Tun was gunned down in 1968 ) . |
| 30 | On the move in a different way goes who leaves us in November to start a new job with the MMB as a AI inseminator — best of luck from us all and may you be very , very successful in your new post . |