Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 2 | We finished the album and we were going in a new direction , one which we were all very pleased with . |
| 3 | The company was the first public joint stock enterprise to employ steam traction and its records illustrate in detail how novel problems of management were overcome in a new sector of the economy and how entrepreneurs coped with severely fluctuating levels of profitability in response to the ebb and flow of investment expenditures after 1830 . |
| 4 | The proposals were enacted in a new Banking Act in 1987 . |
| 5 | Appearing down Grizedale West , he had to override the transmission balance and after just two stages they were putting in a new gearbox . |
| 6 | Not that The Dick Nixons were indulging in a new pastime . |
| 7 | On the 28th of the same month the list was altered in a new agreement , with Richard Windle joining the " team " . |
| 8 | The first with improved riding qualities was car 10 , which was painted in a new red-and-cream livery in 1975 . |
| 9 | Sir Michael was installed in a new Falklands Unit in the Cabinet Office and attended meetings of OD(SA) , though not as its secretary . |
| 10 | By the end of the decade he was living in a new house built within the precinct . |
| 11 | John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger was presented in a new production in 1989 as a study of a failed marriage rather than of the playwright 's early ideological concerns . |
| 12 | Royal Hill police headquarters was housed in a new building . |
| 13 | The arrival of the French was to usher in a new era . |
| 14 | She was ringing to say she was settled in a new council bungalow and it was thanks to me . |
| 15 | One solution to the safety/environment/access conflict was found in a new design for The Brow estate in Runcorn new town in Cheshire ( Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 16 | The paper was relaunched in a new format as the Sun , but it failed to win up-market readers , while the old loyalists were put off . |
| 17 | He was engaged in a new round of organizing the Company 's war effort and parrying political threats to it virtually until the time of his death . |
| 18 | In 1857 the whole of the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in Probate and Administration was taken away and was vested in a new court — the Court of Probate . |