Example sentences of "new [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Thirties new attempts were made to re-launch rugby in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | NEW ATTEMPTS are underway to revive Wall Street 's most celebrated failed deal — the buyout of United Airlines which collapsed spreading chaos on the stock market two months ago — with little enthusiasm for a revised offer for the company before next year . |
| 3 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 4 | In that sense Britain was not an active opponent of the new attempts at sectoral economic unification that in the early 1950s began with coal and steel . |
| 5 | Called at different times Dai Nam — The Great South — and Dai Viet — Country of the Great Viet People — they repulsed an invasion by Mongol hordes and successfully resisted new attempts by the Sung , Ming and Manchu emperors of China to reconquer them . |
| 6 | Return of Third World waste consignments to Europe — New attempts to export waste to Third World |
| 7 | ‘ Back in Britain — still being subjected to continual bombing — and bombing Germany in return — there continued a massive build up of materials ; ideas ; new inventions , and American , British and Commonwealth forces in preparation of the expected invasion across the English Channel . |
| 8 | Teachers should also discuss with pupils , and encourage them to analyse , the reasons why vocabulary changes over time — eg contact with other languages because of trade or political circumstances , fashion , effects of advertising , need for new euphemisms , new inventions and technology , changes in society . |
| 9 | B. The shipping merchants and the owners of cotton mills and tobacco factories had money , or capital , to invest in the new inventions and industries . |
| 10 | Why do you think the masters of the old guilds and crafts in the lowland towns opposed new inventions and ideas ? |
| 11 | ‘ One reason is because people who have been made redundant have more time to think up new inventions . |
| 12 | One of the oddest of the new inventions is the Splashguard , a musical gadget which fits inside your toilet bowl . |
| 13 | Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village , and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions . |
| 14 | New inventions and developments in methods of production , transport , etc. , changed the scale and location of production at work from the land and small enterprises to the town and city and larger-scale enterprises like factories . |
| 15 | Creative thinking is the process of developing new ideas , new inventions and novel ways of doing things . |
| 16 | Where Boulestin never falters or misleads is in the sureness of his taste and the sobriety of his ingredients even when his recipes are new inventions . |
| 17 | This does not necessarily involve a search for new inventions , but , rather , a concerted shortening of the lead-time between the inventions and their implementation in the form of new innovations . |
| 18 | New inventions are applied only in so far as they fit existing missions and strategies determined in previous wars . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's all about a character co-incidentally called Wilf who makes a living by developing new inventions that no home should be without . |
| 20 | Pass thro' new epithets to smooth the way : |
| 21 | New Stuffies stuff |
| 22 | When a brittle material breaks , two new surfaces are created at the point of fracture which were not there before fracture , and Griffith 's very brilliant idea was to relate the surface energy of the fracture surfaces to the strain energy in the material before it broke . |
| 23 | On the other side of the energy account book is the surface energy , 2 G.l , which is needed to form the new surfaces and clearly this increases only as the first power of the depth of the crack . |
| 24 | By this time stress waves are probably racing about in the material in all directions at the speed of sound ( that is faster than the crack ) , being reflected off both old and new surfaces , and we are likely to end up with not one crack but with a great many . |
| 25 | This is possible because , at high stresses the total strain energy in the material will ‘ pay ’ for a great many new surfaces , indeed at the theoretical strength it will ‘ pay ’ for dividing the whole material up into individual sheets of molecules . |
| 26 | Once you have thoroughly reorganized your existing storage you can look around for new surfaces to conquer . |
| 27 | As the existing and new foundations are founded on a common ‘ ballast ’ subsoil , it was not found necessary to install movement joints between the new and the old constructions , although this policy was adopted in the reconstruction of St James 's , Knatchbull Road . |
| 28 | No more universities would be created , either as new foundations or as promotions from the public sector . |
| 29 | Underpinning is expensive and inconvenient , and involves the addition of new foundations or short concrete piles without demolishing the building . |
| 30 | In this sense , it makes a significant contribution toward a third-generation effort ( perhaps still short of definitive ) that will treat the recombinant-DNA controversy as a not-to-be overlooked early warning of profound social change to come — as the achievements of this scientifically enormously productive century are built into new foundations for human society . |