Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these was in 1905 — a decision to purchase a new set of wheels and axles from Gwynnes for £60 . |
| 2 | The founding instrument may be a royal charter ( BBC or the research councils ) ; a Treasury Minute ( University Grants Committee ) ; the articles of a non-profit company ( National Consumer Council ) ; or , more humbly , but apparently almost as effectively , a mere Answer in the House , a memorandum from the Minister to himself , a wave of the hand , or whatever else may signify a decision to establish a new body ( Schools Council , Technician and Business Education Councils and that unusual ‘ central–local government voluntary ’ body , the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service ) . |
| 3 | We see we see this forum as very much the right sort of forum for either making or breaking the case for a new settlement , the one thing I do have to say , however , is that the Department wants to see this particular issue settled in the context of the alteration , and full significance of that is n't immediately apparent , it , what we do n't want to see is what was envisaged in the H B F statement , where they thought that we might end up with a decision to have a new settlement in principle and then leave it open to the local plans , all four of them around the city , to then explore the possible alternative locations . |
| 4 | When a honeybee finds a new source of food , it senses the direction from the hive to the food using the sun as a compass . |
| 5 | The second question — relevant only if a majority preferred a new constitution — asked voters to approve certain ground rules for the Constituent Assembly : a limited term , the obligation to submit its draft to another referendum , a clear separation of powers between the assembly and the provisional government whose president it would select . |
| 6 | On registration by the company a buyer receives a new certificate and the seller a balance certificate for any shares he retains . |
| 7 | Remember , use of a reserve requires a new notice of the fighting order . |
| 8 | According to folklore if a traveller on horseback leaves a horse needing a new shoe together with a coin , the horse will have been shod when they return to the spot . |
| 9 | Simple documents such as a two-column parish newsletter or a flyer promoting a new sandwich bar or a college concert simply do n't demand the same degree of overall quality and items such as these are readily produced by programs such as Timeworks , GEM Desktop Publisher and Finesse . |
| 10 | Usually , carrying out a search creates a new list of files , but you can choose either to add to the list found so far , or to search only in the list that has already been selected . |
| 11 | Talks between the ISA , IWSRA and the Provincial associations have been held in a bid to formulate a new constitution together with a set of policies and financial implications for the new body which will be known as Irish Squash . |
| 12 | The Teesside Development Corporation says talks are continuing in a bid to find a new location for Hartlepool 's Clarence Road bus depot . |
| 13 | Word has it that an unlikely combination of forces have come together in a bid to establish a new standard for installing Unix software from graphical user interfaces and will be showing their stuff next month 's Uniforum show in San Francisco . |
| 14 | President Clinton last week announced a plan to add a new Clipper Chip in every government phone and computer line to prevent eavesdropping : the chip was developed by the US National Institute for Standards and Technology , and is expected to be used by commercial and private users as well ; to assure privacy , each chip containing the encryption devices would be assigned two unique keys that will be needed to decode messages ; according to the New York Times , they will be fabricated by Micotronx Inc , Torrance , California and VLSI Technology Inc , San Jose , and AT&T Co says it will incorporate the chip in its secure communications product line . |
| 15 | In order to boost business confidence the UK and Hong Kong authorities in 1989 approved a plan to construct a new airport and port system . |
| 16 | It is here that the goal of developing a different vision , for locating a different set of values , becomes pre-eminent — because with that different vision , with a determination to create a new set of values which recognises intrinsic value in all living creatures , we can properly inform and inspire a programme that works , albeit a gradualist one ! |
| 17 | For a statute or a past decision poses problems of consistency in strategy only when it has assigned people legal rights that a judge forming a new rule is for some reason powerless to change , rights that would work badly with the new rights he wants to create . |
| 18 | Every cat owner knows the moment when a pet approaches a new dish of food , sniffs it , and then stalks off without taking a bite . |
| 19 | Newton Aycliffe and Peterlee both began to take shape in the late 40s coming out of a need to find a new living and working environment and they were followed by Washington in 1964 . |
| 20 | It is interesting that a number of individuals on the Sandford Review Committee felt that there was a need to establish a new type of national park zone ; these were to be ‘ inner ’ National Heritage Areas , where the claims of conservation were to have clear priority . |
| 21 | If one quarter , in value , of the creditors request him to convene a meeting to appoint a new trustee , he must do so ( s 300(3) ) . |
| 22 | Bob Stanley in Melody Maker also recognised a band entering a new phase after witnessing their 45-minute long set at London 's Kilburn National . |
| 23 | Mobutu had agreed in April to opposition demands for the holding of a conference to discuss a new constitution and the holding of multiparty elections [ see p. 38133 ] , but the conference had been repeatedly postponed and the government had decreed on July 15 that it would not be sovereign on constitutional matters . |
| 24 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 25 | Taxes Act 1988 , s66(3) states that if at any time a person acquires a new source of any income in respect of which he is chargeable under Case III or makes an addition to any source of any such income then in the year of assessment in which the income first arises from the source or addition and the two following years of assessment the charge shall be on an actual basis in accordance with TA 1988 , s66(1) . |
| 26 | Consider a person purchasing a new motor car . |
| 27 | So here was a chance to create a new sector with a new kind of indulgence , with a product which had the credentials to exploit this opportunity , ’ says Bartle . |
| 28 | But in some parishes it er had been useful for them to stand out because the parish council was made up of people who had grown old with parish priests and er it was a chance to make a new start . |
| 29 | What 's Can you remember what the point in a conversation is where a speaker has a chance to become a new speaker ? |
| 30 | If you are acting for a builder-seller selling a new dwelling and the builder is on the National House-Building Council 's register ( Chapter 13 ) , you may not , unless the property is completed some time before completion of the sale , have received the standard notice of insurance cover to hand over , in which case you will give an undertaking to do so as soon as it comes to hand . |