Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] on [art] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices plunged in October to their lowest level for more than 14 years ( taking the price of beans in London to £655 a tonne ) after the 74-country International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) failed to agree on a new price stabilization agreement favoured by the USA , the largest consumer , based on a greater allocation of the export market to some coffee producers , notably Colombia , at the expense of Brazil and the African countries . |
| 2 | The congress failed to agree on a new name for the party . |
| 3 | Immigrants , some of them Indian Tamils , arrived to work on the new estates . |
| 4 | EUROPE 's research supremo , Commissioner Etienne Davignon , has returned from a trip to Tokyo determined to build on a new understanding over trade in high-technology goods to increase collaboration between Japan and Europe on costly research projects . |
| 5 | The Israeli contact , Al Schwimmer , offered to paint on a new registration and forge some new papers , but was politely turned down . |
| 6 | William , 10 , and eight-year-old Harry were given airline packs of colouring books and puzzles but chose to concentrate on a new computer game . |
| 7 | At his barracks in London 's Knightsbridge yesterday , the major refused to comment on the new allegations which are understood to have been made by a junior officer or private . |
| 8 | He was asked if he wanted to embark on a new life with a different identity . |