Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] with a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here they were presented with a new interpretation of world events from the Kremlin which saw the world as divided into ‘ two camps ’ and called on Communists everywhere to resist US ‘ imperialism ’ . |
| 2 | Ministers were presented with a new report on unemployment prepared by the OECD secretariat , which repeated its pet theme that the key to reducing unemployment is to make labour markets work better , through measures such as better training and mobility . |
| 3 | These were replaced with a new paternalism based on moral and physical ‘ improvement ’ , where the poor were distanced . |
| 4 | [ J ] oined to political agencies , … [ newspapers ] augmented their own status … they were invested with a new validity , and an implicit authority . ’ |
| 5 | In 1965 all six volumes were republished with a new preface written by Anna Kate Rance . |
| 6 | The twist in the story of river and wetland management in our own times was to be one in which drainage men were faced with a new army ; an army which , unlike that of the commoners who had opposed their predecessors , was to grow stronger with every passing year . |
| 7 | The motion was carried , and the school was reopened with a new teacher . |
| 8 | After managing , more successfully than most , to be neutral in a Gulf drama that saw two of its deepest fears come true — Iraq 's territorial expansion and America 's intervention with guns — Iran was presented with a new chance for trouble-making by Mr Hussein 's defeat . |
| 9 | The third was connected with a new awareness of history , of the fact that human societies and institutions have developed through long centuries and have taken on many different shapes at different times and in different places — an awareness which was especially sharply focused by the work of Gotthold Lessing . |
| 10 | Next to the eastern granary the aqueduct , which no doubt had served the successive forts , was provided with a new channel and distribution tanks ; the source of water is unknown but presumably it lay on the higher ground to the north of Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 11 | Then he was seized with a new idea . |
| 12 | At the same time , he was entering with a new singleness of purpose the creative landscape of his own mind , and sensed already that what he might achieve in the months ahead would surpass anything which had resulted from two very public years in Bristol . |
| 13 | In other authorities corporate management was combined with a new system of area management . |
| 14 | This sensitivity to American qualities was coupled with a new willingness to accept that commerce and art had to go hand in hand . |
| 15 | Suddenly the climate was imbued with a new Puritan ethic , not the work ethic but the breeding ethic . |
| 16 | He was drunk with a new importance , knowing himself to be irreplaceably useful . |