Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] 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 | And , as the second and third generation of Arab-Americans began to look back across the Atlantic , they were joined by a new wave of immigrants from the Middle East , many of them Lebanese , Palestinians and Iraqis displaced by the political upheavals in the region . |
| 3 | But these identifiable elements were blended into a new pattern , which owed its existence to Gloucester himself . |
| 4 | But these identifiable elements were blended into a new pattern , which owed its existence to Gloucester himself . |
| 5 | They did , however , note that the disturbances of 1811 – 12 were distinguished by a new level of planning and organisation , but still insisted that the involvement of " proper " trade unionists was limited to sympathy . |
| 6 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 7 | Locally , it is estimated that more than half the 200 Health Authorities in England and Wales designated a responsible officer , and that there was a greater volume and variety of activity than ever before : traditional courses were supplemented by a new range of imaginative options , to which more managers than ever before had access . |
| 8 | Early in the new century the Manchester and Salford Scuttlers were succeeded by a new generation calling themselves ‘ Ikes ’ or ‘ Ikey Lads ’ , a name which may have had something to do with distinctive dress-styles made by Jewish tailor shops . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 12 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 13 | There was , however , another crucial difference between Darwin 's position and that of his contemporaries : he believed that , when members of a species were transported to a new location , they might sometimes establish themselves even if the conditions were not identical to those of the homeland , in which case the isolated population would adapt to the new environment and eventually be transformed into a distinct species . |
| 14 | However , only five were approved before a new City Grant was announced in Action for Cities ( HMSO , 1988a ) . |
| 15 | These were replaced with a new paternalism based on moral and physical ‘ improvement ’ , where the poor were distanced . |
| 16 | [ J ] oined to political agencies , … [ newspapers ] augmented their own status … they were invested with a new validity , and an implicit authority . ’ |
| 17 | From this disaster a coalition of community groups throughout the region was formed , calling itself the Appalachian Alliance , and with these groups placing questions of land ownership high on their agenda for discussion , the issues were raised to a new sense of awareness . |
| 18 | Mass has been offered regularly in St Gerard 's School as funds were raised for a new church centre in Hemlington . |
| 19 | In 1965 all six volumes were republished with a new preface written by Anna Kate Rance . |
| 20 | In the decades following the death of Richard Wilson in 1782 , the beauties of the Principality were re-discovered by a new generation of artists including J. Inigo Richards , Anthony Devis , J. C. Ibbetson , Copley Fielding , William Daniell and David Cox . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The proposals were enacted in a new Banking Act in 1987 . |
| 23 | The Rural Areas Committee formally ceased to exist in December 1945 and its functions were assumed by a new University/ WEA Joint Committee with responsibility for all liberal adult educational provision including Tutorial Classes throughout the region . |
| 24 | In 1950 , my family , four of us , about to be five , living in one room , were rehoused on a new estate in a Cumbrian town . |
| 25 | The same holds true about the plasma concentrations which , although they were determined by a new ELISA , were within the same range ( 70–350 ng/mL ) in responsive patients from Cameroon and the Congo as in non-responsive patients from the Congo . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Gore and Wirth were backed by a new report from the congressional Office of Technology Assessment . |
| 28 | Following on from the informal Malta summit in December 1989 [ see p. 37110 ] , the meetings were hailed as a new beginning in US-Soviet relations , despite acknowledged continuing differences on a number of key bilateral and international issues . |
| 29 | On the 28th of the same month the list was altered in a new agreement , with Richard Windle joining the " team " . |
| 30 | In April 1981 , route 154 was diverted to a new estate on the site of Croydon Aerodrome and only 157 serves South Norwood and Anerley . |