Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are surrounded by a new aura of meaning ’ ( 1965 : 129 ) . |
| 2 | The bridge is now used only by pedestrians , having been superseded by a new road bridge in 1958 . |
| 3 | Old certainties — the idea of a fundamental division between ‘ realism ’ and ‘ experimentalism ’ , for example — have been superseded by a new pluralism . |
| 4 | In the Eastern states of Europe , the traditional form of communism has collapsed and the communist party and state apparatus has been superseded by a new cohort of political leaders . |
| 5 | Every attempt by local government to evade central spending restrictions has been met by a new rule to make evasion more difficult . |
| 6 | Once the exclusive domain of self-confessed ‘ headers ’ , Leeds United 's terraces have been invaded by a new breed of hedonistic supporter . |
| 7 | Venice 's churches , recently threatened with closure ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p.1 ) , have been reprieved by a new scheme approved by the Ministero dei Beni culturali . |
| 8 | It has now been replaced by a new colonnade . |
| 9 | - You notice that the section of your local supermarket which has stocked picnic and barbecue material since the birth of time has suddenly disappeared and been replaced by a new section stocking wrapping paper , crackers and tinsel decorations . |
| 10 | On this occasion it was to be hoped that humiliation and hurt pride had been assuaged by a new pair of shoes and a many-stranded jet necklace — like early travellers taking presents to the natives , Sophia felt . |
| 11 | Our market leading ‘ gold sub ’ ( AuSub© ) range of silver glass die attach pastes has been augmented by a new range of polymer based materials which can be used to attach semi-conductor chips in both ceramic and plastic packages . |
| 12 | CUSTOMER services has been boosted by a new system to allocate loose bases and covers . |
| 13 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 14 | The decreasing significance of patronage in the nineteenth century and the permeation of musical life by market relations has two dialectically related effects : commodification of musical works and rationalization of the production system are accompanied by a new level of musical autonomy associated with market freedom and a decline of social function . |
| 15 | These days the greying hair , spreading waists and failing sight are accompanied by a new generation ; their children . |
| 16 | But they were alarmed to discover that sanitarians had been displaced by a new force in sexual politics : the militant voice of articulate middle-class women who pointed to men as the root cause of immorality . |
| 17 | The technological innovations which have developed as a result of society 's need to adapt to new conditions have been accompanied by a new epistemology . |
| 18 | Such questions as these receive quite disparate answers , ranging from claims that all these legal practices can be explained by a new principle , such as the protection of reliance , through to denials that anything significant has happened . |
| 19 | By the late 1980s regular trainloads were being dispatched from purpose-built transfer terminals in Greater London , Manchester and Avon , and these would soon be joined by a new flow from Edinburgh . |
| 20 | The plant is producing the top-of-the range Rover eight hundred , but later this year the production lines will be joined by a new Rover car , codenamed the SYNCHRO . |
| 21 | The slate roof was treated similarly , although the need to install central heating meant that the roof ridge at the junction of the main block with the nineteenth-century extension had to be punctuated by a new chimney . |
| 22 | SCOTCH whisky and other spirits producers may be caught by a new Commission proposal to force them to reveal the ingredients of alcoholic drinks on bottles . |
| 23 | Under the legislation gene technology would be regulated by a new body , the Central Committee for Biological Safety , which would be responsible to the Health Ministry in Bonn . |
| 24 | A World Bank-backed forest conservation programme has been launched in Guyana , but its effectiveness may be threatened by a new road and the government 's recent granting of logging rights to a Malay-Korean consortium . |
| 25 | For example , the InsP 3 -induced entry of calcium in lymphocytes may be mediated by a new IP 3 R which contains sialic acid and is localized in the plasma membrane . |
| 26 | It 's the first such building to be bought by a new trust which has been set up to protect some of the country 's loveliest old places of worship . |
| 27 | Halitosis , or bad breath , may be helped by a new mouthwash currently being developed by a research team from Israel |
| 28 | Gary Stevens Animal — a new piece inspired by the ‘ comic , animal-like persona of Stan Laurel ’ , says Stevens somewhat enigmatically — will be premiered by a new group of artists and performers . |
| 29 | But this view could well be challenged by a new offering from Roland … |
| 30 | There is no need for the former , given that the schools already have to publish examination results and that under the Conservatives they will have to be inspected by a new form of genuinely independent inspecting agencies . |