Example sentences of "[verb] a new [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisbon diplomats said Portugal had asked the United States to try a new initiative to bring the two sides together . |
| 2 | There is an urgent need for new members to serve on the Finance Committee and as Joan Daniels wishes to retire at the end of the present financial year we will also need a new Treasurer to take her place . |
| 3 | The new government 's policy document promised a new constitution to replace the one formulated under military rule in 1982 . |
| 4 | You propose a new wheeze to help farmers ; I cite a specific nonsense that will result . |
| 5 | Consistent with his medico-chemical interests was his Edinburgh MD thesis ‘ On the theory of Chemical Combination ’ ( 1861 ) , in which he proposed a new way to represent chemical constitution : each atom was to be indicated by the chemical symbol for the element concerned , bonds between atoms being symbolized by lines . |
| 6 | However , scarcely was the ink dry on the paper when , at the end of December 1981 , the Secretary of State announced in the House of Commons that , ‘ with the agreement of the local authority associations and after consultation with other interested parties ’ , he had decided to establish a new body to advise him on the distribution of the advanced further education pool and on academic provision in local authority institutions of higher education . |
| 7 | Housing experts say it 's an increasing problem and they want a new law to protect tenants . |
| 8 | On Jan. 17 , 1990 , the IIAG Prime Minister , Abdur-Rabbur Rasul Sayaf , announced a 16-point formula to find a new leadership to oppose the Kabul government . |
| 9 | After the great divide had been effected , it was time for the mystics to find a new way to cross the abyss and rediscover the old unity — not , this time , in the outside world but in the depths of the self . |
| 10 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 11 | Ghatak saw himself as groping , experimenting with each film , trying to find a new form to say something new , now picturesque , now documentary , now epic , now experimental , now melodrama . |
| 12 | The chances are that Britain will have to find a new place to dump waste by the end of the decade . |
| 13 | In the garden you will see them nosing around trying to find a new place to dig a hole . |
| 14 | We will introduce a new initiative to encourage the provision of after-school facilities by schools , employers and voluntary groups across the country . |
| 15 | It took almost twenty years to launch a new attempt to embody in formal texts some of humanity 's yearnings for effective restrictions on war . |
| 16 | He has a new chance to put his stamp on policy . |
| 17 | When two families start living together for whatever reason , everyone has a new role to play and , until new house rules have been established , the children are bound to feel insecure , jealous and anxious . |
| 18 | Super sitcom genius DAVID NOBBS has a new show to follow Perrin and Fairly Secret Army . |
| 19 | It needs a new person to take it into the future , someone free of the old , deeply ingrained prejudices and affiliations . |
| 20 | Supporters of the scheme say the town needs a new supermarket to boost a flagging economy and that the site is suitable for a new store . |
| 21 | Nippon DEC has named a new president to replace Edmund Reilly , president of the Japanese subsidiary since its formation in 1980 , who is to move to Hong Kong as the president and managing director of DEC Asia Region . |
| 22 | If they wo n't order the stock , do they really expect a new franchisee to do it ? |
| 23 | Mums ( and babies ) deserve a new way to shop ! |
| 24 | Last week the more go-ahead Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced that the New York Mercantile Exchange would be its partner in developing a new system to clear trades . |
| 25 | On March 20th President Chaim Herzog gave him first shot at forming a new government to replace the fallen Likud-Labour coalition . |
| 26 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it is teaming up with said it was teaming up with Telstra International , the international arm of Telecom Australia , and Benpres of the Philippines , to conduct a feasibility study into forming a new company to expand the telephone service in the Philippines . |
| 27 | He had Letty and now found himself dreading a new face to love . |
| 28 | Czechoslovakia 's Federal Assembly failed on Aug. 6 in a fourth round ballot to choose a new President to replace Vaclav Havel , who resigned on July 20 [ see p. 39015 ] . |
| 29 | All this was extremely disturbing and the French desperately sought a new way to control Germany 's revival . |
| 30 | We can not do it for ourselves , it is gift and grace — God acting on and in us to create a new willingness to see with his eyes , think with his mind , adopt his values and attitudes ( 1 Cor. |