Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 2 | Mr Lawson is right to ask the nuclear industry to spell out a new R&D effort . |
| 3 | Just as the critics were beginning to complain about overdoses of city life along came Cagney to inject new energy into the genre and in effect to open up a new era for the movies . |
| 4 | We welcome the proposal to try out a new Campaigns Unit for one year , but would stress : |
| 5 | MPs spent two hours discussing the make-up of a committee to draw up a new system of presidential power and cabinet veto , and it was significant that the 12 names mentioned for the committee included several Christian deputies , but only one Maronite . |
| 6 | When , for example , a solicitor is recruited as a specialist to head up a new department it would be appropriate to seek some commitment from him at any rate in the medium term . |
| 7 | Some major parties quickly rejected the whole idea of the planned conference , regarding it as undemocratic , and called for a genuine national conference to draw up a new constitution . |
| 8 | Pluralists agree with Mills that it is a post-war phenomena and arises due to the United States ' need to take on a new world role The military fill the political vacuum which exists in foreign policy-making , and this brings them into close contact with the industrial firms which prospered out of the Second World War . |
| 9 | The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire has announced that he 's leaving his job to take up a new post with the intelligence service in London . |
| 10 | Once , when very drunk , Simon had phoned me late one night to try out a new concept , the ‘ Uzi-O-Gram ’ , which had the catchline ‘ Shoot up your girlfriend 's wedding , just for fun ! |
| 11 | On April 30 Lekhanya announced proposals to set up a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 12 | A conference on Aug. 16-19 attended by representatives of 14 political parties as well as church , trade union , student and business leaders , called for the establishment of an all-party transitional government which would conduct elections for a constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 13 | Opposition parties repeated their call for the election of a national constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution . |
| 14 | Like all fathers , I see fatherhood as a chance to turn over a new leaf . |
| 15 | McMaster moved from the seaside to take up a new teaching post in Drumahoe near Londonderry last week , and decided to make the break with the club he has served so well for a decade . |
| 16 | Pan Macmillan has appointed Ellen Grout contracts manager to set up a new department responsible for negotiating Pan Macmillan 's head contracts . |
| 17 | He was then granted full power for six months as well as authority to draw up a new constitution , which would be put to a popular referendum for ratification . |
| 18 | Ever since 1914 , when the great majority of the leaders of social democratic parties in Europe supported the war effort of their own nation states — under a variety of influences , one of which was undoubtedly the nationalist fervour of the peoples involved — the capacity of the socialist movement to bring about a new kind of political relationship among the peoples of the world has seemed more questionable ; and the doubts have multiplied not only as a result of the course taken by the revolution in Russia , culminating in the project of building ‘ socialism in one country ’ , which eventually led to the identification of socialism with the national interests of the Soviet Union , but also in the light of the actual relations that developed between the communist countries in the postwar period . |
| 19 | No sooner had ‘ Red ’ Braswell , then President of AKA , publicised in 1978 a conversion of the simple plastic-sailed Gayla ‘ Baby Bat ’ from single to two-line for what was then christened Figurekiting , than the inventive kiters in America applied new thought to open up a new phase . |
| 20 | William Waites , of the University of Nottingham 's Department of Applied Biochemistry and Food Science , has urged the government to set up a new organisation along the lines of the US Food and Drug Administration , but without responsibility for drugs . |
| 21 | After a year or two I was nipping out at lunchtime to pick up a new skirt for the office party , calling at the dry cleaners , handing in the photos to be developed and meeting friends for lunch with the best of them . |
| 22 | Does the Minister agree that no matter what progress is made in energy efficiency — in Wales or in the west country , for example — it could all come to nothing if the Government press ahead and force British Gas to start up a new company for the transportation of gas through its pipelines ? |
| 23 | By the early 1970s the increasing demand for higher education forced the government to lay down a new structure for higher education , embodied in the Hochschulrahrnengesetz . |
| 24 | George III employed Barnard as chief agent in his lifelong endeavour to build up a new collection , which later came to be known as the King 's Library . |
| 25 | This is largely overcome by using a computer to print out a new set of data at each revision , but there is a tendency to allow the plan to fall into disuse in the later stages of a project because of this . |
| 26 | This is largely overcome by using a computer to print out a new set of data at each revision , but there is a tendency to allow the plan to fall into disuse in the later stages of a project because of this . |
| 27 | Negotiations are under way to work out a new method of payment . |
| 28 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 29 | When the British naval officer Captain ( later Admiral ) Colomb passed through Alexandria to Suez on his way to take up a new command in the anti-slavery squadron in 1868 , he wrote of the rudimentary nature of stations in Egypt . |
| 30 | In June , Sacheverell started a lengthy progress through the midlands , on his way to take up a new living in Shropshire , and virtually everywhere he went he received a rapturous reception from the local inhabitants shouting " God Bless Doctor Sacheverell " . |