Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] a new " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new electoral law , passed by the National Assembly on April 18 , 1989 , and signed by Ortega on April 22 , provided for elections to be overseen by a new Supreme Electoral Council comprising five members elected by the National Assembly from among candidates proposed by the President , including two from opposition parties . |
| 2 | Search for a peptide was rewarded by the discovery of a compound containing five amino acids , which combined powerfully with the opiate receptor and had all the necessary properties for it to be recognized as a new transmitter substance . |
| 3 | A complete list of art objects lost between Germany and Russia during and after World War II is to be prepared for a new , German , state-funded foundation which will aim to help both countries to regain their lost or displaced art works . |
| 4 | The 200 companies and 369 local authority undertakings , together with the Central Electricity Board and the nearly 300 power stations owned and operated by these organisations , were to be transferred to a new public body , the British Electricity Authority . |
| 5 | I always seem to be reading about a new food scare . |
| 6 | With effect from March 7 , small businesses with up to 20 staff could operate within a largely free-enterprise regime , precise rules for which were to be formulated by a new National Committee for Small Enterprises . |
| 7 | All parties agreed to work towards further reductions in conventional arms and troop levels , to be formalized in a new multilateral agreement ( referred to as CFE-1A , the successor to the CFE agreement signed in November 1990 — see p. 37838 ) . |
| 8 | This marked a significant departure from previous foreign policy priorities which traditionally had made the Soviet Union the first place to be visited by a new Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Sun Microsystems Inc is to invest a further £12m in its European manufacturing site at Linlithglow , Scotland : its Sparcstation 10 workstation is to be built at a new 70,000 square foot building , including , for the first time , the printed circuit boards ; up to 100 new jobs are expected to be created at the 350-strong operation . |
| 10 | The fifty-year-old display area is now to be replaced with a new space of suitably high artistic merit . |
| 11 | After Brunnhilde throws herself on to the pyre Valhalla comes to an end , to be replaced by a new era of human love . |
| 12 | He , and others like him , were answered by Rousseau , who argues that the social contract which established private property was really the origin of exploitation and had to be replaced by a new social contract . |
| 13 | The CEN Technical Committees 116 and 117 which have been working on the creation of European Standards for bituminous sheeting and single-ply membranes have recently been disbanded to be replaced by a new Technical Committee , CEN TC 254 , which will prepare European Standards on waterproofing sheeting used in building and civil engineering works . |
| 14 | The answer is that they will become superfluous , to be replaced by a new prototype that looks remarkably like a rugby league player . |
| 15 | It will allow the sense of frustration many of us have felt for a number of years to be replaced by a new sense of purpose . |
| 16 | The former People 's National Security Service was to be replaced by a new State Information and Security Service , whose duties would be confined to intelligence and counter-intelligence . |
| 17 | OLD soldier Dominic Lavery has refused to give his beloved wellies the boot despite rumours they 're soon to be replaced by a new American alternative . |
| 18 | The Lanes ' vat has had to be fitted with a new stainless steel liner . |
| 19 | Play-pens are now having to be made to a new British Standard , which involves using a simulated ‘ bite ’ test . |
| 20 | On Saturday Maxim had moved back into Wellington Barracks ; he was supposed to be looking for a new flat to go with his London posting . |
| 21 | Scotts claimed to be looking for a new franchiser to take over its hotels when the contract with Holiday Inn expires in July 1992 . |
| 22 | The foreign intelligence operations were now to be conducted by a new and as yet unnamed state agency separate from the KGB ( although Primakov was also named first deputy chair of the KGB ) , and would concentrate on national security and on monitoring the international drugs trade and terrorism . |
| 23 | What had started as a ‘ new look ’ language course began to be seen as a new approach to teaching children based on a new and popular medium — English . |
| 24 | As the martyr is , literally , detached from the place of his martyrdom and made present wherever his relics have become the centre of a cult , so relics begin to be seen in a new way . |
| 25 | In the face of mounting defeats , personal losses , misery , and sacrifice , Hitler 's earlier successes began to be seen in a new light , and he was now increasingly blamed for policies which had led to the war , and for his failure to terminate the war and produce the desired peace . |
| 26 | Scientists then often speak of ‘ the scales falling from the eyes ’ or of the ‘ lightning flash ’ that ‘ inundates ’ a previously obscure puzzle , enabling its components to be seen in a new way that for the first time permits its solution . |
| 27 | It may be that Chilperic 's death came to be seen in a new light after the Burgundian wars of the 520s and 530s . |
| 28 | The slate roof was treated similarly , although the need to install central heating meant that the roof ridge at the junction of the main block with the nineteenth-century extension had to be punctuated by a new chimney . |
| 29 | By contrast to its growing enmity with Inkatha , the ANC appeared to be moving towards a new accommodation with the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , originally formed in 1958 as a breakaway from the ANC . |
| 30 | Many of the genes in a family might have to be converted to a new variant before any significant change in the phenotype occurs-but by that time all individuals would have a similar proportion of the new variant and so would be physically very similar . |