Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] the new [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A new role was then established , that of coordinator , which bypassed the head and was intended to carry the new vision of good practice directly from Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) to the classroom .
2 An extensive training programme was designed to put the new techniques into practice .
3 Others , however , objected to the replacement of the Schools Council by two unelected bodies ; they saw dangers in the minister ‘ surrounding himself by people of one opinion ’ , and in the ‘ centralized patronage ’ which was said to characterize the new arrangements , and they detected the eclipse of the values of curriculum pluralism for which the Schools Council had stood .
4 In the light of the failure to adopt the draft programme , it was decided to give the new party central committee the task of reworking it , and to suspend proceedings until after the 28th CPSU congress in July .
5 Mohammed Ghannouchi , hitherto Finance Minister , was moved to head the new Ministry of International Co-operation and Development .
6 Permission was sought to use the new bingo machine at meetings of the club and this was granted .
7 And when at last in February 1662 the real festival opera , Ercole amante , one of his finest scores , was produced to inaugurate the new theatre in the Tuileries , he had — despite his deliberate attempt to satisfy French taste with pomp and dancing rhythms — again to accept the insertion of ballet music by Lully , the success of which completely distracted attention from his unusually fine recitatives .
8 Courses for training both residential and casework staff were organized rapidly so that when the 1948 Children Act came into force some influx of trained staff was anticipated to staff the new children 's departments .
9 She was a mystery to her neighbours , whose curiosity was aroused when she was found reading the New Testament in Greek .
10 A suitable developer was found to construct the new building .
11 LEICESTER City chairman Brian George yesterday dismissed growing speculation that former Darlington boss Brian Little was set to become the new mannager at Sunderland .
12 The reason he was such a flop was becuase he was sposed to herald the new era at Leeds .
13 George Yeo was appointed to head the new Ministry for Information and Arts and also as Second Minister for Foreign Affairs .
14 Myo Nyunt , commander of the Yangon Command , was appointed to head the new Ministry of Religious Affairs .
15 Im Chhunlim , a member of the SNC , replaced Yos Son as Education Minister ; Dit Munty , another SOC member of the SNC , was appointed to head the new Ministry of Information and the Press ; Hang Chuon , hitherto Minister of Information and Culture , remained in charge of the new Ministry of Culture ; and Do Sohan replaced Koy Buntha as Minister of Social Affairs and War Invalids .
16 Bella Kurkova was appointed to head the new service .
17 In 1925 a more direct line was constructed to facilitate the new road and obviate the Rossall curve , which was the scene of many dewirements in high winds .
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