Example sentences of "it [vb past] a new [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 3 The act not only created a situation in which the House of Lords had to give way to the House of Commons , but in providing for the " representation of the people " it admitted a new principle of linkage between the state and society .
2 Secondly , it produced a new figure at the dinner table : the railway bore .
3 Morse said it lent a new meaning to the phrase ‘ keeping a shop ’ . ’
4 The idea was a novelty , it illumined a new area of thought in Isabel Lavender 's mind , and she felt a little daring , a little afraid , at bringing up for scrutiny something she had so long taken for granted .
5 It provided a new slant on his character .
6 Lasswells model was speedily recognised to be flawed — it assumed that the communicator had the intention of influencing the receiver and made no allowance for a feedback element in the communication process — but it provided a new method for the study of communication and was the stimulus for further analysis .
7 In the textile industry a number of technical inventions produced an increase in output ; a way had been found of using coal , in the form of coke , to smelt iron ; and the steam engine was so improved that it provided a new source of power .
8 This discovery gave fresh impetus to research aimed at developing new drugs which , like aspirin , would relieve pain and control inflammation , and also it provided a new basis for testing candidate compounds .
9 But it created a new kind of assignment , which was a legal assignment in the sense that the assignee might sue directly in his own name without making the assignor a party ; but it made certain special requirements :
10 It proposed a new division of responsibility for finance between central and local government , and a structure of regional and national bodies to advise both the Secretary of State and LEAs on management tasks , while leaving considerable freedom of decision with both the LEAs and individual institutions .
11 It received a new boost in 1990 when John Gribbin and Martin Rees published their The Stuff of the Universe , where it was asserted that the universe came into existence solely in order to create a carbon-based intelligent life-form on just one planet — Earth .
12 Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator in charge of basic energy research , was enthusiastic : ‘ The work was promising in the sense that it identified a new way of effecting nuclear fusion even though there was no strong indication that it might be practical . ’
13 The NCCK welcomed the decision and said that it signalled a new era of reconciliation , justice , tolerance and brotherhood .
14 It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders .
15 It added a new dimension to the picture .
16 And indeed , feminism was quite happy with that , for it heralded a new way of being .
17 It is difficult for us to imagine now , but at the time this was a revolutionary book , not only because it put a new type of archaeological field monument , the deserted medieval village ( DMV ) , firmly on the map , but also because it heralded a new era in the study of rural settlements in this country .
18 Eventually , however , in May 1988 it signed a new agreement with the IMF , under which , in return for a supply of new foreign loans , it agreed to relax foreign exchange controls and open an effective foreign exchange market .
19 It bred a new generation of workers with no memory of mass unemployment .
20 There had already been examples in the fifties , notably Delmer Daves 's Broken Arrow , Robert Aldrich 's Apache and Sam Fuller 's Run of the Arrow , but it began a new trend in which the Western was appropriated by directors in order to express their liberal views .
21 It was very dimly aware that it needed a new type of thought .
22 After the publication of Gratian 's Decretum and its wide dissemination , which is illustrated by the large number of manuscripts in different medieval libraries and individually owned by various bishops and scholars , not only could more detailed work be undertaken but it initiated a new epoch in interest in the declaration of law by the pope .
23 It implied a new revelation of God .
24 On May 26th it hit a new high against the dollar of 108.5 .
25 It brought a new level of handling to front-wheel drive that 's never been equalled .
26 It brought a new meaning to the phrase ‘ terminal breakfast . '
27 It meant a new way of looking at reading errors , seeing them as evidence of children 's use of linguistic knowledge .
28 It took a new generation of drama advisers to attempt to bring it back again .
29 It is difficult for us to imagine now , but at the time this was a revolutionary book , not only because it put a new type of archaeological field monument , the deserted medieval village ( DMV ) , firmly on the map , but also because it heralded a new era in the study of rural settlements in this country .
30 The Government was deeply unhappy about criticism from the press , so it introduced a new tax on newspapers which forced many to close and cut the sales of others so that circulation was restricted to the better-off .
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