Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's response to the problem of teacher shortages was to launch new kinds of teacher training programmes . |
| 2 | The putsch set back the beginning of negotiations between the French government and the GPRA for a short while , but its ultimate effect was to give new momentum to the talks . |
| 3 | By that time , scholars in various countries were throwing new light on the composer 's music , life and times , providing performers with new insights — and also making way for the populist boom that began with Peter Shaffer 's play and film ‘ Amadeus ’ . |
| 4 | The speed with which the Ashleys were opening new shops and the steady expansion of the Carno factory should not mask the continuing difficulties . |
| 5 | Expropriations were to be speeded up and the land settlements were to become new reform units , with wider criteria for membership , thus increasing the number of beneficiaries . |
| 6 | Dusty Springfield was wearing new shoes , with very high heels , and was terrified that she 'd slip , so just before she was due to go on , one of the team was dispatched to look for some scissors to scratch the soles with . |
| 7 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |
| 8 | The firm 's main work was producing components for aircraft but my job was to investigate new product areas for the company . |
| 9 | The main aim was to win new audiences and so there was always room for experiment , especially at the better end of the market . |
| 10 | Häagen-Dazs was named new product of the year , with particular mention for its mould-breaking press ads through Bartle Bogle Hegarty . |
| 11 | Chemistry was given new status as the art of separating the pure from the impure . |
| 12 | Wider suffrages , urbanism and growing literacy were forcing new techniques and new institutions on the politicians . |
| 13 | There was little structure to the market , Welsh Lamb Enterprise was seeking new markets but with no control over supplies , producer groups were operating mainly as dealers , and producers got neither the information they needed nor the returns . |
| 14 | ‘ My father-in-law was giving new meaning to the phrase ‘ keeping a shop ’ . ’ |
| 15 | Lady McCollum , chairman of the watchdog body , said the completion of the Single Market and the fact that trade was crossing new borders meant it was crucial consumers interests were not overlooked . |
| 16 | ‘ My priority was to blend new faces into the team and we have succeeded on that score . |
| 17 | Despite these reverses , however , a revival of seventh-century northern imperial ambition had evidently occurred among the Northumbrians at the court of Eadberht , and though the dominance of Óengus , son of Forgus , in Pictland probably impeded its fulfilment , the indications are that Eadberht was bringing new prosperity to his kingdom . |
| 18 | At the same time , both Iran and Iraq were developing new techniques . |
| 19 | In the following decade many local police forces were given new powers to discipline drunk and disorderly street-walkers , powers strengthened under the Licensing Act , 1872 . |
| 20 | But within a few years the Americans were using new machines , a fraction of the size , that an unskilled woman could operate for a fraction of the pay , and upon which she could spin as many stockings an hour as the Black Beauty — and without seams . |
| 21 | Juan Luis Londono was appointed new Health Minister on Nov. 28 . |
| 22 | There were no French madrigalists but , beginning in the 1560s , the native polyphonic chanson was given new life by the immensely popular example of Lassus , whose chansons are often shot through with madrigalian techniques . |
| 23 | Catalan emigrants were taking new attitudes into Spain itself . |
| 24 | Many of the houses were given new façades in the Renaissance and then again in the late 17 and 18C . |
| 25 | Elizabethan builders were learning new things from the Netherlands , and Thomas Howard was eager to display his knowledge of architectural fashion . |
| 26 | This did not mean , unfortunately , that human rights were being respected , but that regimes around the world were using new methods of repression such as ‘ disappearances ’ and extrajudicial executions . |
| 27 | Most English towns have grown from Anglo-Saxon villages , but , particularly in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , landowners were founding new towns all over England — and indeed all over Europe . |
| 28 | And when he and Hugh Paddick joined together for their Julian and Sandy routine — bravely supposedly using the names , and names only , of Julian Slade and Sandy Wilson ( writers of The Boy Friend and Salad Days ) — Williams and Paddick were giving new meaning to that word ‘ gay ’ , especially when they talked about the figure-hugging black number they had bought in Carnaby Street . |
| 29 | A number of organizations from both sectors spoke of the problems of an Increase In the number of firms competing to supply particular markets , whilst a number were introducing new products onto the market and were unsure how these would fare . |
| 30 | The main aim of the project was to forge new links between education and everyday community life and to seek to develop new ways of encouraging people of different ages to become more aware of and more actively engaged in the issues and problems of then community . |