Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |
| 2 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 3 | Thus the old tradition of pilgrimage , peregrinatio , spawned or became united to the new kind of military adventure we call the crusade ; and the resources of the roads and waterways of Europe and the Near East were strained to the uttermost to meet the insatiable demands of these adventurous travellers . |
| 4 | What became enshrined in the new legislation were more stringent penalties for brothel-keepers and the raising of the age of consent to sixteen . |
| 5 | It was not known if Koos van der Merwe , an advocate of the negotiations process who was expelled from the CP in April [ see p. 38850 ] , had joined to the new party . |
| 6 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 7 | Review the requirement for computer support of outposted files as an added value factor once a department network had been installed ( Note : this was due to take place after the departments had moved to the new accommodation ) . |
| 8 | We had moved into the new factory in June 1979 and the first effect of our association with GEC was an input of capital to purchase badly needed equipment . |
| 9 | The family moved to Riba , to an apartment in the palazzo Papa San had bought in the new town , the building Davide now looked after for him . |
| 10 | Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout . |
| 11 | The Communist Party , which had campaigned against the new constitution , saw its parliamentary representation decimated , while the non-communist left , which had been split on the constitution , lost half of its seats . |
| 12 | Peter had gone to the New End PCC meeting . |
| 13 | In 1759 he was apprenticed to the civil engineer John Smeaton [ q.v. ] , for whom his father had worked on the new Eddystone lighthouse . |
| 14 | The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year . |
| 15 | She too had taken to the new helper . |
| 16 | Many of those who founded the country had fled to the New World to escape the oppressiveness of traditional societies marked by hierarchy , inequality and the absence of freedom . |
| 17 | Although most state governments had switched to the new award as a means of recognizing public service , Queensland and Tasmania had continued to recommend Australians for knighthoods and lower awards . |
| 18 | Preston , whose coming of age had coincided with the New Wave , mentally categorised him as a Punk and , therefore , Harmless . |