Example sentences of "which [vb past] a new [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 A particularly controversial assignment , which added a new dimension to headhunting and was a foretaste of things to come , was the recruitment of Thomas Barrow from Exxon to Kennecott in 1978 .
2 During the years that the Uganda syllabus panels were meeting , the Lake Victoria Hotel , Entebbe was chosen as the venue for the first in a series of international workshops which heralded a new approach to curriculum development , a new dimension for pan-African co-operation and whose eventual product , the Entebbe Mathematics , proved to be possibly the most influential curriculum project yet to be launched in English — speaking Africa .
3 The Hungarian minority formed a Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( HDUR — see also p. 37327 ) , while concern over the environment led to ecological movements , which presented a new challenge to the more orthodox political parties .
4 Far to the west , however , a change had taken place which gave a new twist to relations between the Great Powers .
5 By the middle of the decade , they had formulated their auteur theory , which gave a new gloss to film studies .
6 They and the popular movement have their roots in both the growth of nationalist fervour in the late 1960s and early 1970s , which parallelled the growth of anti-colonial and ‘ Third World ’ nationalist movements elsewhere , and in the call from the leadership of the Catholic church during the same period for ‘ a preferential option for the poor ’ which gave a new focus to the efforts of church organizations in this predominantly Catholic country .
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