Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , the authorities were convinced that the special circumstances of the Kadanwari field , coupled with the need to provide demonstrable incentives for future exploration , properly justified a new price regime . |
| 2 | However heartless and unfair this may seem to human eyes , the end result is more likely to achieve the parent owl 's purpose of successfully launching a new generation . |
| 3 | If the innocent party purports to " accept " such performance , he effectively accepts a new contract . |
| 4 | This will , of course , only introduce a new level of complexity . |
| 5 | We had recently finished with the Douglas car company but wanted to keep the series topical and so developed a new setting in which our hero uses his amoral cunning to preserve part of Britain 's disappearing heritage ’ . |
| 6 | From mid April to late summer , depending on the success of the breeding season , ospreys will be around and , if you visit in July or August and the season has been a success , you may be lucky enough to see a new family of young birds exercising their strengthening wings . |
| 7 | Falling Down represents a New Brutalism in the cinema . |
| 8 | Gardeners get round these problems by using alternative means of propagation , all of them known as vegetative methods because of they involve taking some living fragment of a plant and inducing it to develop roots , so producing a new plant identical to the patent or part from which it was taken . |
| 9 | The single dog , who has probably been bored for many years , suddenly has a new playmate , who like himself , sleeps most of the time , but will enjoy a game for short periods . |
| 10 | As we shall discuss later , David Norman , head of Russell Reynolds in 1980 , was responsible — helped by international teamwork — for finding Sir Ian McGregor for British Steel , the first time in Britain that headhunters had been called in to find a new boss for a nationalised industry . |
| 11 | As Robinson ( 1985 , p. 42 ) puts it , ‘ the FMI merely adds a new twist to the whole question of … civil servants ’ answerability to Parliament' . |
| 12 | But that only adds a new dimension of urgency to the business . |
| 13 | One version of the story has Massaccio losing all of his clothes as well , which not only adds a new possibility to the origin of the saying ‘ to lose your shirt ’ , but also a certain piquancy to the vision of the gambler outside the church . |
| 14 | There will be gardeners with established rose gardens who can only introduce a new plant at the expense of something else — a replacement of a loss perhaps , a substitution for something better , an extension or changed layout . |
| 15 | I revised a relatively brief article in line with the referees ' comments only to receive a new set of comments which raised points that could have been made at the first submission . |
| 16 | This bureaucratic initiative apparently reflected a new impatience in de Gaulle 's attitude towards the problem . |
| 17 | They need to budget carefully , neither is a diy expert , but they have saved enough to buy a new kitchen . |
| 18 | The less isolated a new resident feels , the faster they settle down . |
| 19 | This may do the trick , but if you are unable to find a fitting of the correct size , you would be best advised to get a plumber in to fit a new stopcock which will involve turning off the water at the water company 's stopcock outside your house . |
| 20 | Nearly out of fuel , it landed on a previously uncharted islet , inadvertently adding a new outpost to the Philippine republic . |
| 21 | But he said the province was now faced with ‘ a quite alarming series of incidents , which perhaps marks a new phase in the terrorist campaign , and it has serious implications for people in Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 22 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 23 | As a result , he necessarily developed a new self-image , and took on a new social personality in the process . |
| 24 | There is a process of two individuals joining together to form a new life , often personified by children . |
| 25 | The question was whether , in the harsher climate of the late 1970s and early 1980s , the fragments could be welded together to form a new force in British politics . |
| 26 | There are examples all the time , of a , I 'm not going to use football as an example or a team as an example in football , and if you suddenly get a new member to the hockey team or a new member to the football team , or whatever and the whole team is transformed just by this one extra person , this one person joining in . |
| 27 | Fertilization consists of the coming together of the two sets of chromosomes , 23 paternal and 23 maternal ones , so providing a new set of 46 chromosomes ‘ yoked together ’ in the zygote , which is the first cell of the new individual . |
| 28 | As we start afresh to build a new church , we have a heaven sent opportunity to try again for this possibility of godly unity which , if we let it , will be so powerful in persuading the world of the divinity of Jesus . |
| 29 | The coming of sound was probably crucial in this respect as it obviously placed a new emphasis on the contemporary American voice and on contemporary settings , which were in any case cheaper than conventional sets . |
| 30 | Restoration of old cars is a way of life in this country , with many beautiful maintained Morris Minors , Ford Anglias and Triumph Heralds still to be seen bowling along the roads , so giving a new lease of life to old aeroplanes seems to come naturally . |