Example sentences of "'s [noun] [to-vb] a new [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When the committee met Hopkins resisted the Section 's attempts to get a new definition of full employment of 2 ½%; unemployed , preferring to stick to Beveridge 's 8 ½%; dge .
2 The image of LSE was enhanced by David Kirby 's decision to introduce a new livery unique to LSE .
3 Platt 's decision to sign a new contract ends anxious weeks of negotiation by Wigan who have already lost star names Gene Miles and Andy Gregory from last season 's all-conquering team .
4 Mr Jarvis , who spent £40m expanding the chain on the Continent in recent years , said the decision followed Whitbread 's inability to negotiate a new exit clause in the franchise agreement which would have given it more protection .
5 THE Government 's plans to construct a new road bridge over the Firth of Forth have been welcomed by Fife Regional Council .
6 An engineer in Darlington has six weeks to decide whether he wants to return to South Africa or head his company 's plans to build a new factory in Russia .
7 The Soviet Union 's plans to build a new store for nuclear waste , close to the Finnish border near Leningrad , have aroused worry amongst Finnish environmentalists .
8 AN announcement is expected this week on the NewZealand-based company Fortex Group Ltd 's plans to establish a new lamb processing plant in the United Kingdom .
9 Was it really Guru Nanak 's intention to found a new religion , or even a new religious community ?
10 BOXER Mike Tyson 's bid to get a new trial was thrown out of court yesterday — by the judge who sentenced him to six years for rape .
11 Sir David Wilson , the Governor of Hong Kong , held " wide-ranging and useful " talks with Chinese leaders in Beijing on Jan. 21-24 , defusing a potentially damaging conflict over the Hong Kong government 's plan to build a new airport and port complex .
12 Douglas Hurd , the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , visited Hong Kong and China on April 2-9 for discussions aimed at settling the ongoing conflict between China and the Hong Kong government over the latter 's plan to build a new airport and port complex [ see p. 37961 ] .
13 All this reinforced Attlee 's determination to get a new governor installed as soon as possible .
14 Although Henry 's desire to have a new wife and greater control over the English church was the primary incentive for the schism , Cromwell and the members of Anne Boleyn 's faction were also keen to bring about reform of the church ( see Chapters 4 and 6 ) .
15 The industry 's expansion is the result of the IDA 's efforts to create a new industry to take over from the ailing assembly , light manufacturing , and textile industries that started Ireland 's industrialisation in the early 1950s .
16 Peres 's efforts to form a new government were thwarted a matter of hours before the April 11 Knesset confidence debate was set to open when two of the five ultra-orthodox Agudat Yisrael members withdrew their support from Labour , saying that they could not support a government sustained by Arab supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization .
17 PLYMOUTH chairman Dan McCauley has rejected player-manager Peter Shilton 's offer to fund a new loan signing .
18 On May 13 Rashid al-Solh accepted President Hrawi 's invitation to form a new government .
19 The nuclear establishment 's response to Mr Lawson 's invitation to prepare a new R&D programme for fast reactors ( New Scientist , 2 December , p 547 ) will almost certainly be met with the suggestion that without another large reactor there can be no R&D programme .
20 It is the generator 's task to construct a new power station to accept the gas and turn it into electricity .
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