Example sentences of "[noun] to build a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an attempt to build a new life for himself and his daughter , Paul Kersey takes a job managing a radio station in Chicago . |
| 2 | The biggest award was for £150,000 to Ullaspool , a company set up to raise funds to build a new swimming pool at Ullapool . |
| 3 | The Sex Pistols apparently instant recognition was in direct contrast to their original plan to build a new Bay City Rollers . |
| 4 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |
| 5 | An earlier plan to build a new home in conjunction with a housing association on the Chevet Hey site in Prices Lane , Wrexham , failed to get off the ground . |
| 6 | Sir David Wilson , the Governor of Hong Kong , held " wide-ranging and useful " talks with Chinese leaders in Beijing on Jan. 21-24 , defusing a potentially damaging conflict over the Hong Kong government 's plan to build a new airport and port complex . |
| 7 | Douglas Hurd , the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , visited Hong Kong and China on April 2-9 for discussions aimed at settling the ongoing conflict between China and the Hong Kong government over the latter 's plan to build a new airport and port complex [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 8 | Peter de Savary 's Canvey Island development has won approval from the local planning committee which voted 15 to one in favour of the plan to build a new community , against the advice of its chief planning officer . |
| 9 | This was not to be finished until 1954 because of the Second World War , and the need to build a new tunnel at Woodhead . |
| 10 | ‘ We bought a greenfield site to build a new set of studios . |
| 11 | It is the duty of the inventor to build a new gestalt for the old one in the framework of society . |
| 12 | It 's cost a million pounds to build a new water treatment works at Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire , to take nitrates out of spring and river water . |
| 13 | When , in 1150 , the citizens of La Rochelle had asked the Bishop of Saintes for permission to build a new parish church to accommodate the growing number of worshippers , they had met with a refusal . |
| 14 | British dignity and Hong Kong 's autonomy were dented last September when Mr Major had to fly to Peking — essentially to get Chinese permission to build a new Hong Kong airport . |
| 15 | An engineer in Darlington has six weeks to decide whether he wants to return to South Africa or head his company 's plans to build a new factory in Russia . |
| 16 | Protestors are claiming that proposals to enlarge a trunk road are part of plans to build a new motorway . |
| 17 | A COMPANY behind plans to build a new village on the outskirts of Darlington is considering appealing against the rejection of its development by town planners . |
| 18 | Celtic have unveiled plans to build a new £100 million stadium complex at Cambuslang in south east Glasgow . |
| 19 | Within five years the same railway contractors responsible for the spur line were actively pursuing plans to build a new dock system in the area . |
| 20 | The Soviet Union 's plans to build a new store for nuclear waste , close to the Finnish border near Leningrad , have aroused worry amongst Finnish environmentalists . |
| 21 | THE ENVIRONMENT Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , yesterday finally rejected plans to build a new town of 4,800 homes at Foxley Wood , Hampshire , saying the county council should come up with fresh county-wide plans . |
| 22 | Now he fears proposals to build a new road linking the M40 to Aylesbury will bring another motorway to his doorstep . |
| 23 | At first , it appeared an anachronism for BR to go to a council and say , ‘ please give us some money to build a new station ’ or , ‘ we need a subsidy to keep this service going ’ . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , the Milanese were impressed by the miracle and over the years their offerings to the Madonna amounted to enough money to build a new church , the one that Bramante designed . |
| 25 | This decision , which honours Cape Verde , has been interpreted by us as a recognition of the unwearying efforts the Capeverdian government and people are making in the struggle to build a new society based on social justice , progress and equal opportunity . |
| 26 | That was the case at North Manchester General Hospital , where Wimpey Construction UK Northern worked alongside staff and patients to build a new £18 million wing to the existing hospital . |
| 27 | Croydon Corporation to build a new sub-station in Tennison Road , Norwood , and lease part of it to London Transport at a peppercorn rent . |
| 28 | In my case it was also different , for though I had done no criminal act I had by force of circumstance set sail for Koraloona to build a new life there . |
| 29 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 30 | A public enquiry into the council application to build a new headquarters at Hazelbank is being heard in Ballyclare this week . |