Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] a new " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were fencing a new corral today . |
| 2 | We thought we were building a new Jerusalem , but these people seem hell bent on destroying Babylon . |
| 3 | Well the er point I 'd like to make is that as of last Saturday the er , erm , the Soviets were building a new submarine every forty days , they 're spending thirty five percent of the G N P . |
| 4 | Mr Herd said police forces were using a new command structure with one senior officer , referred to as ‘ gold ’ overseeing strategy for any big operation . |
| 5 | Instead of reverting automatically to the universal European scholarly tongue of Latin , they were gaining a new confidence in the language of their own people . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not as though I were writing a new book , ’ Elinor said crossly . |
| 7 | Increasingly , the Ashleys were hiring a new breed of staff ; qualified and experienced . |
| 8 | They were researching a new power source that was being developed by a Danish engineer . |
| 9 | If I were interviewing a new act , I would try to ascertain their sheer punishment factor . |
| 10 | No , no one told me getting the push , just said we were getting a new one so I mean that must have meant that we that he had n't Commiserations , but never mind |
| 11 | oh I thought you were buying a new one with that money |
| 12 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 13 | Mr MacGregor , the Chairman of British Steel in 1980 , would not have chosen either place if he were starting a new industry today . |
| 14 | When the first giraffes began to stretch their necks to reach the leaves of trees , they were choosing a new habit that would guide the future development of their species over a vast period of time . |
| 15 | That was a story Hopper liked to tell , to demonstrate how they were all good friends who were creating a new style of acting ; later , when Nicholson arrived , they had long discussions about this era and the influences it had on all of them . |
| 16 | There had also been a ‘ drift ’ to the cities of unemployed rural labour who were creating a new social problem in communist China . |
| 17 | And with the help of all these er er pieces of equipment er we found in general that we were reaching a new standard of production , where we were increasing it er and we were able to bargain more strongly and more favourably on behalf of our members . |
| 18 | They were dedicating a new runway at the airport . |
| 19 | Across the Glyders on Suicide Wall in the Ogwen Valley , Ed Stone and Mark Taylor were finding a new pitch between Mur Y Meirwon and Route 1 : Y Meirwon Byw E4/5 6a climbs to just skirt the right side of the turf ledge and joins Mur Y Meirwon for its enjoyable finish . |
| 20 | Indeed , as Rome and the Eastern churches were drifting apart , not least through the Iconoclastic Controversy , Boniface and his mission were preparing a new Rome-centred area of authority in the North . |
| 21 | The French , it soon appeared , were preparing a new invasion , of which more will be said later . |
| 22 | The Labour Party officially viewed the Convention as " an attempt to build up a new Political Party " , and indeed it is not improbable that the Communists , fearing illegality , were preparing a new organization on United Front lines into which they could merge if necessary . |
| 23 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 24 | POLICE were following a new lead yesterday after reconstructing the last walk of murdered Tracey Carey , 20 . |
| 25 | They said they were offering a new short introductory course called the general SVQ in care . |
| 26 | The moralization of public life , under pressure from evangelicals , was producing a new language of politics and an insistence that men holding public office should outwardly subscribe to respectable standards of personal conduct . |
| 27 | 1–7 A powerful crane was building a new quay at Ardbeg distillery and a diver was laying the outer walls . |
| 28 | He had some land near Port au Prince , and he was building a new town . |
| 29 | But the disruption of plague , of Frenchmen and English squabbling was helping a new move towards prosperity and stability . |
| 30 | Since our rather unsuccessful sortie to Scotland during the winter of 1971 the Klondyke trade had revived and was bringing a new prosperity to the north west . |