Example sentences of "[vb past] the new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He met the new left , was sometimes intrigued by it , but it was a different , and largely incomprehensible , world . |
| 2 | The reshuffle came under almost immediate fire from former president Francesco Cossiga , who branded the new administration as a government of national hypocrisy . |
| 3 | As she passed the new couple her beach bag caught the Factor 15 and knocked it off the table . |
| 4 | Balcon was forced off the CFC , where places were found both for Alexander Korda , who shared the new mogul 's enthusiasm for ‘ bigger and bigger films , ’ and for Rank himself . |
| 5 | Israel was eventually persuaded to withdraw its tanks to new , secure positions , well back from the Sinai , thus allowing Egypt to achieve some part of its principal aims — on condition that Egypt , for its part , formally recognized the State of Israel and respected the new border , thus allowing Israel to secure some part of its own principal aims . |
| 6 | Both the techniques of bacteriology — the microscope , the preparation of cultures and slides , etc. — and its immediate applicability — the eradication of the diseases of animals and humans — made the new discipline accessible , understandable and appealing . |
| 7 | Such revolutionaries also complain that by adhering so closely to the old subject divisions , in the past characteristic more of GCE O levels than of the CSE , those who devised the new examination missed a great opportunity . |
| 8 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ No , I gave you back some tearducts when I inserted the new model . |
| 10 | He was one of the first passengers on MARTA , the Atlanta underground , when it opened in 1979 , rode the new tube in Fukuoka two years later and in the following year watched the building of MMTA in Baltimore and the metro in Caracas . |
| 11 | Philip Ettinger , 37 , the brains behind the bid to launch the link , today revealed the new move which coincides with the end of a three-week consultation period when objections to his proposals must be lodged . |
| 12 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |
| 13 | James F Hudson became the new Field Officer and also editor of the BDN , which had been edited by an editorial board since Frame 's death , and Mrs C. Laidlow ( Kitty ) , a Lady Welfare Officer at Carlisle , was put in charge of the new office as administrative Secretary . |
| 14 | On this day : the arrest of the Templars for heresy took place in Paris , on the orders of Philip IV , 1307 ; Benedict Arnold was defeated at Lake Champlain , 1776 ; President George Washington laid the foundation stone of the White House , Washington 1792 ; British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of Queenston Heights , 1812 ; Greenwich was adopted as the universal meridian at the Washington Conference , 1884 ; 41 people were killed during a German air-raid on London , 1915 ; Ankara became the new capital of Turkey , 1923 ; Italy declared war on Germany , 1943 ; the Allies liberated Athens , 1944 ; the first London production of the musical show The Pajama Game was presented , 1955 . |
| 15 | Maj. Gen. Rodrigo Sanchez Casillas became the new Army Chief of Staff and Brig. -Gen . |
| 16 | Garin Aguirre became the new Army Inspector General both replacing those who had " voluntarily resigned " over the La Cutufa affair . |
| 17 | Amongst those members who changed their portfolios was former Economics Minister Chen Li-an , who became the new Defence Minister . |
| 18 | Poltoranin 's deputy , Mikhail Fedotov , became the new Press and Information Minister , but his brief was to be limited to registering and licensing new media and promoting freedom of speech , while Poltoranin was to be responsible for state-owned television and the press . |
| 19 | Although the practical difficulties of time measurement were such that until the middle of the seventeenth century most clocks had but one hand and the dial was divided only into hours and quarters , the abstract framework of uniformly divided time gradually became the new medium of daily existence . |
| 20 | Joseph Rwegasira became the new Minister of Labour , Culture and Social Services . |
| 21 | On March 2 Pedro Mendes Jurado became the new Attorney General ; he stated that he would step up the battle against terrorism and drug trafficking . |
| 22 | Sir Anthony became the new chairman on 1 July , succeeding John Maltby , whose term of office ended on 30 June . |
| 23 | Frank became the new chairman and we believe that in due course , it 's gon na generate substantial profits . |
| 24 | Mr Bernard Harland became the new record holder in 1987 , with a weight of 48 drams 25 grains for his twin firbobs . |
| 25 | When the Boards were abolished in 1902 , the Women 's Local Government Society fought to have women elected to the County and Borough Councils , which became the new Local Education Authorities ( LEAs ) . |
| 26 | Elsewhere in India and in Central Asia , the railway station became the new setting for an ancient trade . |
| 27 | Friday nights became the new vortex of Mancunian activity and all four would-be Smiths spent time there . |
| 28 | On April 27 , George Brizan , hitherto Finance Minister , was appointed Minster of Agriculture while retaining responsibility for Trade , Industry , Production and Energy ; Tillman Thomas became the new Finance Minster and was replaced as Minister of Works , Communications and Public Utilities by the former Agriculture Minister Phinsley St Louis . |
| 29 | The Assumption in Moscow became the new prototype and was copied again and again all over Russia for many years as the orthodox pattern for such great churches . |
| 30 | After dissolving his Cabinet on Jan. 30 , 1990 , President Banda appointed a new one on Feb. 23 in which former Minister of Health Edward C. I. Bwanali took over Local Government from Mfunjo Mwakikunga , who became the new Health Minister . |