Example sentences of "about a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Gospel we have been told that Jesus will bring about a new exodus ( 9:31 ) by his death and resurrection at Jerusalem : a release from a worse bondage and a more terrible death than that which befell the Israelites in Egypt . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A lawyer might be encouraged to work for , say , professional arrangements which opened up the profession 's services to the general public ; or a chemist might seek to reduce the impact of the chemical industry on the environment ; or a doctor might act to bring about a new balance between preventive and restorative medicine , as practised by the profession . |
| 4 | It was time for the socialists to make a complete break with their past in order to bring about a new renaissance , he argued . |
| 5 | It was time for the Socialists to make a complete break with their past in order to bring about a new renaissance , he argued . |
| 6 | For one school of distinguished late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historians , led by Luchaire , the twelfth century was essentially the century of the communes — those sworn associations of burghers who , spurred by economic change , challenged with violence the feudal ordering of society , and brought about a new world . |
| 7 | You learn , first , to inhibit the habitual reaction to certain classes of stimuli , and , second , to direct yourself consciously in such a way as to affect certain muscular pulls , which processes bring about a new reaction to these stimuli . |