Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , I knocked down the girders that were to go to develop a new pit which would come from Monktonhall into those reserves . |
| 2 | These measures were intended to introduce a new era in health and safety particularly through methods of ‘ self regulation ’ backed by a minimum of general rules . |
| 3 | The theology of liberation first developed in the 1960s as a Christian Socialist philosophy which holds that it is the duty of the Catholic Church to work for social and economic reforms , particularly in the Third World , and to adopt the cause of the oppressed , These positions were approved at a meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellin , Columbia , in 1968 and represented a watershed for the church in Latin America , The Medellin documents openly denounced the poverty and brutality of the relations of production in Latin America : withdrawing support from the classes in power the bishops called , most significantly , for agrarian reforms , The documents proposed programmes , based on the method of Paulo Freire 's " education for liberation " , which were designed to promote a new sense of community action for change among the poor . |
| 4 | ‘ They were going to try a new drug on him which had never been tested on a human being before in an effort to try and stop the progress of the tumour . |
| 5 | Er when you did get a suit it had to be kept for Sunday , for going to chapel you see , and if you were going to have a new suit it would always be at anniversary time , you did n't get one every anniversary . |
| 6 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 7 | Congress ( I ) were invited to form a new government , but its leader , Rajiv Gandhi refused , offering instead to support Chandra Shekhar 's rebels [ see p. 37854 ] . |
| 8 | And Mary was to arrive at precisely the time when the reformers were beginning to add a new dimension to Scottish self-perception . |
| 9 | Duncan and Myeloski looked at each other ; things were starting to take a new direction . |
| 10 | Wolverton Works were asked to build a new string of four coaches , and to modify the ancillary Royal vehicles so they were compatible . |
| 11 | Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ … |
| 12 | After the victory at Anlec the Elves were forced to choose a new King . |
| 13 | Consequently , the draft root definitions for the storage and retrieval systems were combined to form a new definition for an Information Provision System ( generally referred to as the IPS ) . |
| 14 | Clark and Fraser were trying to control a new set of television nabobs with priorities quite unlike those of the forty-year-old BBC , whose task was to ‘ inform , educate and entertain ’ , in that order . |
| 15 | Foresters spokesman Raymond Bell of Newton Aycliffe , said members from around County Durham and Cleveland were hoping to set a new fundraising record . |
| 16 | That at the age of 60 he still commanded support from the government and public is shown by various events in 1800 , linked with a competition for a second chef : ( The finalists were required to rehearse a new work and direct a public performance : sufficient evidence , if needed , of the central responsibility of the post . ) |
| 17 | While Bolsheviks and radical socialists urged a boycott of the WICs , the predominantly Menshevik Labour groups that were established secured a new platform . |
| 18 | In Scotland , Livingstone ( 1962 ) , 15 miles west of Edinburgh , but basically for Glasgow overspill , was intended to create a new focus of industrial activity in the East Central belt . |
| 19 | The two Comrades put their signatures to a scroll which was then placed in a stainless steel tube and sealed into the concrete foundations of what was intended to become a new conference complex . |
| 20 | Increased mathematical precision was deemed to give a new scientificity to biological and evolutionary phenomena . |
| 21 | One day after her daughter 's death , she was driving to see a new house to which the family planned to move . |
| 22 | The death of Gaviria Rivero was expected to provoke an new upsurge in violence following two weeks of relative calm since the Medellín cartel 's declaration of a unilateral truce on July 27 . |
| 23 | By the mid 70's it was decided to build a new loading plant in Leith and for Methil to be run down . |
| 24 | The small Derbyshire town of Dronfield provides a vivid illustration of the way that an old market centre hardly bigger than a village could be gradually changed by industrial development and then transformed in character when the decision was made to build a new steel works there . |
| 25 | In June 1890 , Mr Park was instructed to erect a new engine shed of wood on the Haversham Bank at a cost of £580 . |
| 26 | When Bonn 's old-town fortifications were dismantled in 1717 , the stone was used to build a new palace for the Elector , Joseph Clemens . |
| 27 | On the other hand , modern science was used to list a new vocabulary of transgression . |
| 28 | It was agreed to purchase a new machine at the cost of around £185 plus V.A.T. It was considered advisable to engage a regular ‘ caller ’ who would be paid for his services . |
| 29 | Prime Minister Gasan Gasanov [ given as Hassan Hasanov on p. 38774 ] was requested to form a new government , as the Supreme Soviet relieved the Council of Ministers of its responsibilities . |
| 30 | Nor is there anything to suggest that Gregory was attempting to create a new genre of national historiography , although his History is often , misleadingly , described as a history of the Franks . |