Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] a new [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly , the Ashleys were hiring a new breed of staff ; qualified and experienced . |
| 2 | That was a story Hopper liked to tell , to demonstrate how they were all good friends who were creating a new style of acting ; later , when Nicholson arrived , they had long discussions about this era and the influences it had on all of them . |
| 3 | And with the help of all these er er pieces of equipment er we found in general that we were reaching a new standard of production , where we were increasing it er and we were able to bargain more strongly and more favourably on behalf of our members . |
| 4 | The moralization of public life , under pressure from evangelicals , was producing a new language of politics and an insistence that men holding public office should outwardly subscribe to respectable standards of personal conduct . |
| 5 | Louise had baked a pie for him and was bringing a new pair of sheets from the airing cupboard . |
| 6 | Although he greeted them cheerily enough , they noticed that he was twisting a new piece of white chalk nervously between his fingers . |
| 7 | But this was a problem for the future ; a more immediate problem was likely to arise because Britain was acquiring a new type of colony . |
| 8 | And Porsche was launching a new generation of rear-engined sports cars — the 911 . |
| 9 | At SunWorld in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago it was displaying a new range of X-terminals based on the MIPS R3000 chip and proprietary ASIC chip called XSA ( X-server accelerator ) . |
| 10 | When Charles appeared for dinner , Diana noticed that he was sporting a new pair of cufflinks in the shape of two ‘ C's intertwined . |
| 11 | This was not just a problem for women in printing : it was one by all women who were drawn into industrial trades just as mechanization was creating a new division of labour . |
| 12 | At the same time , there was emerging a new set of theories surrounding reproduction , in which female orgasm was no longer taken for granted as necessary in the conception of a child . |
| 13 | At the time of writing this poem ( 11-14 March 1802 ) Wordsworth was preparing a new edition of Lyrical Ballads and revising his famous Preface . |