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

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1 Ex-prisoners are given a new lease on life by an unusual theatre group , says Sue Wilson
2 Here , through the use of music , art and drama , very educationally disadvantaged youngsters are given a new insight into life .
3 I am building a new pond in an L shape .
4 A Shetland Pony who was suffering from depression has been given a new outlook on the world .
5 He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) .
6 New Zealand Test star Iro has not been given a new contract by Manly and was offered back to Wigan last week .
7 Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk .
8 From this viewpoint , football violence has been given a new meaning since the early 1960s .
9 Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV .
10 The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission .
11 Capita Group , the management services company best known for collecting poll tax and operating TV licence detector vans but which makes most of its money operating computers for local authorities , has been given a new lease of life by John Major 's re-election .
12 Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life .
13 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 .
14 American mediation , had been given a new lease of life by the Russian Revolution .
15 Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows .
16 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 .
17 But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University .
18 In many parts of the Western world political leaders are encouraging a new spirit of volunteerism .
19 Ponies are enjoying a new boom in popularity — amongst adult riders and handlers .
20 Modern developments in artificial intelligence are bringing a new light to past perceptions of how the human mind interacts with nature .
21 Two proposals led by my family health services authority are to establish a new pattern of audiological services in primary care for elderly patients operating from general practice rather than ear , nose , and throat departments , and to reach a consensus on the range of conditions that can be cost effectively , appropriately , and equitably treated in general practice by physiotherapists .
22 The Pompidou Centre 's Musée National de l'art Moderne and its Centre de Création Industrielle are launching a new project under the title Revue virtuelle which will be devoted to the interraction of art and computer technology .
23 SCIENTISTS in California are developing a new kind of computer memory , based on a photochemical bleaching process .
24 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 .
25 After salvage of any potentially useful parts has been accomplished , it is hoped that the wreck will be donated to the Inverness-based Fresson Trust , who are establishing a new museum at Inverness Airport .
26 Mr Simon Montgomery , administrator of the Brighton Unemployment Centre , which obtained a copy of the review , said yesterday : ‘ We are establishing a new category of people who may have to be outside the welfare net — people with mental health problems who form part of the new underclass . ’
27 Well consider again this brief moment , where we 're given a new glimpse of someone last seen surrounded by a God-like power , the rector of Clongoes , where the young and impressionable Stephen had been to school .
28 So if it was me walking his dog as he goes by he said we 'll see what , he said we 're rebuilding a new bungalow on the insurance claim .
29 In the meantime they 're tackling a new wave of defections .
30 Now one sport that always brings breathtaking action is moto cross … and the good news is they 're opening a new track in Oxfordshire … today the top riders were testing it out … our man Mark Kiff was there
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