Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] that [art] new [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On April 22 a statement by the Presidential Council had stressed that the new constitution would ensure " the supremacy of Islamic sharia over all legislation " .
2 Among other observations he had noticed that the new extension to the nurses ' home could not be used until the furniture had been installed , and that there was no recreation room for the nurses and resident staff .
3 They had argued that the new ideas about space and motion had arisen from an intellectual and , to a much lesser extent , empirical critique of the preceding , largely Anstotelian , notions .
4 I was n't deceived , for Nour had been kind when I had been what he called ‘ good ’ , and I had thought that a new Nour had been born who was made for me , designed for all my needs and desires , and we would be unchangingly happy together until the end of time .
5 The US European Command in Frankfurt said tests had shown that the new rations , falling slowly because of air pockets in the packaging , would not kill people on the ground and could be dropped directly over towns rather than nearby .
6 He had concluded that the new strategy would eventually lead to a resumption of the armed struggle , but , more dubiously , had gone on to suppose that civil rights activities could be treated as if they were an armed insurrection .
7 Campaigners for the Birmingham Six had hoped that a new Home Secretary might reconsider the convictions in the light of the discovery that the confessions of those convicted of the Guildford pub bombings had been fabricated , and the subsequent release of the four .
8 He had hoped that the new journey he had made would be to freedom , back to his beloved homesite and his parents .
9 Rakowski in his Jan. 27 report had stated that a new party should make a break with the PUWP 's Stalinist mentality , and announced that he would not be a candidate for its leadership .
10 Manufacturers had complained that the new regulation would cause a substantial rise in their costs .
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