Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginners ' German may contain 11-year-olds and 17-year-olds ( and , it is to be hoped , people who have long left school , and want to start a new language ) . |
| 2 | They claimed that the party was in the grip of militant right-wing extremists , and proposed to form a new party led by Özal . |
| 3 | Her men stood around , kicked up dust from the ground , and tried to invent a new game . |
| 4 | Virgin retail was among the top three record-shop chains in Britain , with shops in almost every major town and plans to develop a new concept in record retailing , a ‘ megastore ’ , in Oxford Street , close by the site of the first ever Virgin shop . |
| 5 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 6 | Also taken from Paracelsus was the idea that the new science and medicine were biblically sanctioned and destined to attain a new level of control over nature . |
| 7 | ( Later , Edward was to settle in Israel , where he engaged in building projects in Tel Aviv and undertook to construct a new city centre in Jerusalem . |
| 8 | Other feminists , often from libertarian or utopian socialist backgrounds , rejected purity and worked to forge a new discourse , stressing women 's right to active sexual pleasure . |
| 9 | On the morning of Sept. 13 Radio Togo broadcast a communiqué read by a member of the armed forces attacking Koffigoh 's transitional government as " a complete failure " , and threatening to appoint a new government unless Koffigoh had done so by 11 a.m . |
| 10 | Last year Intel opened a design centre and started to make a new line of microprocessors in Penang . |
| 11 | However , at Halling he was soon engaged in repairing the Palace and started to build a new hall , this work taking one year and fifteen months and costing £120 , a quite staggering sum 650 years ago . |
| 12 | Rumour has it that The High had all been living separate musical lives — Andy in particular having just split with the Stone Roses — when they met in Manchester 's Hacienda club , and decided to put a new band together … |
| 13 | She had a windfall of money and decided to have a new career . |
| 14 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 15 | When we arrived in Brazil three weeks later , I said goodbye to the captain and Xury , left the ship , and went to begin a new life . |
| 16 | The council plans to revitalise Pallister Park as part of its City Challenge programme and hopes to introduce a new lake and extra facilities to Albert Park . |
| 17 | Promotion may be unattractive if it means that you cease to use the skills you have and have to learn a new set , such as administration , or political manoeuvring . |
| 18 | It was led by Tonu Anton and intended to write a new constitution by Nov. 15 which would then be put to referendum . |