Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the 28th of the same month the list was altered in a new agreement , with Richard Windle joining the " team " . |
| 2 | In April 1981 , route 154 was diverted to a new estate on the site of Croydon Aerodrome and only 157 serves South Norwood and Anerley . |
| 3 | In a referendum on Aug. 19 popular approval was given to a new constitution drafted by the National Forum , a multiparty conference dominated by the opposition Comité des forces vives formed in mid-1991 . |
| 4 | The USA , France , Venezuela and Argentina denounced the coup and demanded Aristide 's return to power , a demand echoed by the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , despite the re-affirmation at its June assembly of its traditional position of non-intervention if proof was given by a new government that it had gained control of its internal affairs [ see p. 38286 ] . |
| 5 | The first with improved riding qualities was car 10 , which was painted in a new red-and-cream livery in 1975 . |
| 6 | Generally speaking , however , although Orphism was regarded as a new school its derivation from Cubism was acknowledged . |
| 7 | He was walking towards a new life , a kind of freedom which had only been an idealistic daydream for nearly sixty years . |
| 8 | Even when Archbishop Thomas died , he was succeeded by a new archbishop , Gerard , who was already bishop of Hereford , and as such had taken an oath of obedience to Anselm . |
| 9 | These critics did not perhaps all observe the extent to which Barth was opening up a new path , for no one before had handled the doctrine of the Trinity in this fashion . |
| 10 | Sir Michael was installed in a new Falklands Unit in the Cabinet Office and attended meetings of OD(SA) , though not as its secretary . |
| 11 | The motion was carried , and the school was reopened with a new teacher . |
| 12 | This was substituted by a new clause which stated that ‘ parties , mass organisations and mass movements are set up under a procedure established by legislation , and function within the framework of the constitution and law ’ of the republic . |
| 13 | The attaché case was opened and its contents , a flat pack of black velvet , ten inches by twelve inches and three inches thick , was transferred to a new attaché case . |
| 14 | By the end of the decade he was living in a new house built within the precinct . |
| 15 | Nazimov 's enthusiasm for discipline was applied by a new Governor-General to Moscow as a whole . |
| 16 | In March 1922 a monopoly was granted to a new state advisory body on the publication of textbooks , but through the rest of 1922 it was powerless to stem the growing tide of texts from private publishers which threatened to drown official party ideology in educational affairs . |
| 17 | But in 1940 , nobody was looking for a new type of cooker . |
| 18 | Staff were advised that the company was looking for a new property when the search for a new suitable area began and when Aldermaston had been identified as the place where the new offices were to be built . |
| 19 | She had announced that she would stay in Paris until October , but by October she was looking for a new place to rent , now deeply involved with Modi and unable to leave . |
| 20 | Tilda had at first elaborated her story , saying that her mother was looking for a new Daddy , but her observation , quick as a bird 's flight , showed her that this was going too far , and she added that she and her sister prayed nightly to Our Lady of Fatima for her father 's return . |
| 21 | It was looking for a new programme and trying to consolidate its confused followers . |
| 22 | But Mrs Rundle , the mother-hen , was looking for a new post and the house was to be sold over their heads , and the furniture , too . |
| 23 | He had just won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Mission , and was looking for a new challenge . |
| 24 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 25 | Slater says : ‘ I was looking for a new challenge and I am confident that this club will win honours . ’ |
| 26 | He was resussitated by a new heart monitor , bought for the ambulance by a local fir . |
| 27 | After managing , more successfully than most , to be neutral in a Gulf drama that saw two of its deepest fears come true — Iraq 's territorial expansion and America 's intervention with guns — Iran was presented with a new chance for trouble-making by Mr Hussein 's defeat . |
| 28 | John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger was presented in a new production in 1989 as a study of a failed marriage rather than of the playwright 's early ideological concerns . |
| 29 | She was listening for a new noise , the noise she thought she 'd heard on the way out to Chateaubriand : the irregular tapping of the axis lock crystal , jumping in its housing . |
| 30 | The worsening situation in the central Zambezia province was revealed by a new report from Mozambique 's Disasters Control Office . |