Example sentences of "[v-ing] a new [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the Lycra and neoprene-clad Spider People sporting Udo 's creations are adding a new twist to the tired Lycra-top genre . |
| 2 | By choosing one of the colours and holding down the shift key , you can then create your own colour , but rather than adding a new colour to the palette this replaces the original . |
| 3 | Adding a new outpost to the empire |
| 4 | Nearly out of fuel , it landed on a previously uncharted islet , inadvertently adding a new outpost to the Philippine republic . |
| 5 | We found that cytokinins , a class of plant hormones , could induce the formation of numerous haustoria on ‘ free ’ dodder vines in the absence of a host , adding a new dimension to the problem of haustoria development . |
| 6 | If the ISAM method is in use , the effect of adding a new record to a block of records is to cause the block to be re-built , incorporating the new record and pushing the last record of the last block on the track off into overflow . |
| 7 | If tomorrow someone discovered that Atlantis actually existed , he would not be adding a new property to the island state talked about in Plato 's Timaeus , but dispelling the suspicion that Plato , or someone else before him , invented the legend . |
| 8 | Adding a new studio to the network costs about $1 million . |
| 9 | Since our rather unsuccessful sortie to Scotland during the winter of 1971 the Klondyke trade had revived and was bringing a new prosperity to the north west . |
| 10 | A group of young drug-addicts and glue sniffers from a nearby remand centre knocked off the voie normale in the company of their warders without too much bother , bringing a new meaning to the old phrase ‘ going high . ’ |
| 11 | Both approaches therefore involved attributing a new meaning to the situation . |
| 12 | Of course , it could be argued that ludism is , in its way , another interpretative strategy launched by the novelist : while conceding the liberating effect of viewing the literary text as an open and democratic discourse , Robbe-Grillet is again allocating a new role to the reader . |
| 13 | Bentham and the utilitarians , Marx and Engels , Pareto and Mosca , the Fabians , the American pragmatists , provide examples of political thinkers — admittedly differing widely in the power and range of their theories — who have influenced political life by giving a new orientation to the actions of classes , elites or other groups in their societies , partly by shaping opinion , partly by a direct involvement in social movements and political parties . |
| 14 | ( It is a matter of some controversy whether the introduction of this name into the subject was essentially giving a new name to an older concept or whether it involved a significantly new point of view . |
| 15 | Protagon believes that , by offering its string adjustment facility , that it is ‘ raising the stakes ’ , so to speak … setting the trend for the nineties , and giving a new meaning to the term ‘ user-friendly ’ . |
| 16 | During the course of the civil war , the Long Parliament removed from the church all the innovations introduced by Charles and Laud during the 1630s , abolished episcopacy and the Elizabethan Prayer Book , and entrusted the task of devising a new church to the Westminster Assembly of Divines , a committee made up of a small number of MPs and peers , several representatives of parliament 's allies the Scots , and over 100 English churchmen . |
| 17 | Option 3 : Making a new connection to an existing lighting circuit allows new lights to have their own switch . |
| 18 | Welcoming a new member to the pension scheme ? |
| 19 | And Mr Gorbachev was far too late in proposing a new deal to the various republics . |