Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] new [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But the big record companies say they need elaborate long term contracts to invest in new talent . |
2 | B. In 1850 industries were growing fast , profits were high , and people in business had money to invest in new industries . |
3 | I would have had to pay tax unless I 'd set up trusts , er by setting up trusts I could then effectively delay paying the tax er use that money to invest in new companies . |
4 | With no money to invest in new players and a squad of only thirteen , team selection is a constant problem . |
5 | However , this record has been marred by the UK 's relative lack of money to invest in new housing and public works and to maintain the existing stock . |
6 | ‘ BHP should have used at least part of the money to invest in new technology and upgrade and improve its competitive standing in Australia . ’ |
7 | By following the policies of successive governments they have dug themselves deeper into debt ; they have no money to invest in new methods of husbandry , milk-bottling plants or sausage-making machines . |
8 | Rosenthal has selected just three artists to stand for new developments in the Nineties : Jeff Koons , Robert Gober and Mike Kelly . |
9 | A new company , Paravent , which specialises only in screens , has commissioned several artists to work on new pieces , while Liberty , which is always interested in the work of new and interesting designers is holding an exhibition ( from 6 to 22 September ) , of its own specially commissioned screens made by different artists working in many different media and styles . |
10 | Just as the company was about to enter a crisis period through shortage of water , Meirion Rowlands , then Production Director , thought to use copper divining rods to search for new sources of water in the hills he knew so well . |
11 | After three days of negotiations , federal and state government leaders overcame party rivalries late on Saturday to agree on new measures to consolidate the budget and help pay the huge costs of German unification . |
12 | He told magistrates he is using his car to search for new shops to relaunch his business career . |
13 | If means of production remain in use for 20 years ( a reasonable figure ) then the scrapping of old ones releases some 5 per cent of the work force to work with new equipment every year . |
14 | To this end , we must inculcate in our students not only enabling skills such as fluency in English , particularly written English , IT competence , and the ability to communicate but also creative , problem-solving skills — the phrase that is most often used is ‘ transferable skills ’ — which include a willingness to engage with new concepts and techniques . |
15 | Discussing this later at one of the Observations planning meetings , the idea of sharing ‘ inspirational works ’ appealed to all those present as complementing a tendency in review columns to focus on new titles and ‘ how to do it ’ guides . |
16 | VOLUNTARY groups are receiving cash help from the Essex Training and Enterprise Council to comply with new laws . |
17 | In such a time anyone who lacks the courage to be curious and questioning , the capacity to grow into new competencies , and the confidence to communicate and collaborate with others , is severely handicapped , and his or her educators are guilty of gross dereliction of duty . |
18 | The common law offence of sedition , which consists of stirring hatred amongst different classes of Her Majesty 's subjects had fallen into disuse , and an unsuccessful attempt to use it to prosecute for the making of anti-semitic remarks appears to have discouraged prosecuting authorities from seeking to persuade the courts to mould the common law to deal with new problems posed by those who promote ill-will in an increasingly multi-racial society . |
19 | Now that attitude is changing , most obviously on the West Coast , which has more money than other earthquake zones to experiment with new designs and materials . |
20 | In turn , the waste management companies that operate the incinerators are redesigning their equipment to reduce these emissions to comply with new legislation . |
21 | With more sales flowing to parent companies overseas , British music subsidiaries would be starved of cash to invest in new talent ; and they would have to cut their lists , which are bigger than those in America . |
22 | One of the major costs of implementing new technology was the need to train for new skills , but Ms Edwards found that once new technology was adopted it was often under-used or misapplied because of the lack of expertise and investment . |
23 | Outside Cabinet Leon Brittan argued in a speech that the Government must have the right to look at new ideas , although I suspect that both Leon and Geoffrey Howe must have been appalled at the way the issue had been handled . |
24 | Thatcher 's children , one and all , it is these generations who feel the need to belong to new collectivities , connected to the energy of PEOPLE-POWER , the key phrase for the 90s . |
25 | In the case of the Hundred Years War , the causes of the conflict were to be found both in the long historic links between England and France , links which were gradually becoming weaker , and in the need to express in new terms the relationship between the two countries ( arguably the two most powerful in western society in the late Middle Ages ) taking into account elements such as national consciousness and diverging methods of government ( to name but two ) which historians recognise as being characteristic of late medieval European society as a whole . |
26 | Disillusionment with the way they are treated by their firms has led many trainees , along with more experienced dealers to look for new jobs . |
27 | EFTA member countries would have no right to vote on new EC legislation . |
28 | The studio got little cash to pay for new films . |
29 | Poverty is one problem which she has worked tirelessly to alleviate : ‘ Even the political right accepts the need for tax reform to pay for new housing ’ , she said . |
30 | The fluidity of Buid social groupings , and the ease with which the institution of sharing allows individuals to integrate into new groups , provide the best protections a weak society can have against predatory neighbours . |