Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [art] new [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Some Guardians pursued the new policy more vigorously than others .
2 When the old house was practically uninhabitable , they or their sons built a new farmstead in the midst of their own fields and migrated from the village .
3 Few sailing ships could reach the town , so by 1670 the merchants created a new port .
4 The planning of British cities entered a new phase as a consequence .
5 The term continues until determined as if both parties made a new agreement at the end of each year for a new term for the ensuing year .
6 It is remarkable that the Palestinian Jews transmitted the new strength of their faith to those Jews who had not taken part in the Maccabean revolution and who might well have reacted unfavourably to it .
7 The growing complexity of the tasks undertaken by the schools produced a new emphasis on careers guidance and upon counselling , for both of which staffing provision now had to be made .
8 With the environments came a new piece of jargon ; WYSIWYG .
9 Thus Evans-Pritchard 's work on the magic and religion of the Azande , and on the political systems of the Nuer , and Malinowski 's investigations among the Trobriand islanders established a new style and standard for this kind of academic scholarship .
10 The effortless victory followed an occasionally rowdy five-hour debate in which Congress speakers taunted the new government for its dependence on other parties , and for alleged inability to spell out its policies .
11 Methods of co-ordination and formal consultation were needed ; deputy heads acquired a new significance , and their number increased ; headship itself changed in character , more rapidly than in any of the last four centuries , and the language of management science supplanted simpler models of leadership or autonomy .
12 THE United Nations dealt a new blow to the starving millions in Somalia last night by saying it could take three weeks to stop bandits raiding food supplies .
13 Last summer , successful National Certificate candidates had a new experience when opening the familiar SCOTVEC brown envelope .
14 And so the multifaceted style of Elgar 's own readings was absorbed directly or indirectly by a new generation of interpreters — many of them non-British — and the way they painted the music in all its aspects struck a new chord with modern listeners .
15 College contemporaries composed a new version of the song Lloyd George knew My Father :
16 A year ago they would have replied in kind ; now from a hundred throats came the new cry : ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ with if anything even greater fervour .
17 IN 1988 regulators from the dozen richest countries devised a new set of capital standards for commercial banks .
18 Finally , masons laid a new stone floor , using reclaimed Craigleith stone and employing a simple and traditional pattern in keeping with the building .
19 The Company 's hint was taken , and on 6th July the Charity Commissioners approved the new Board , which met for the first time twelve days later and agreed to advertise for a Headmaster who — after all the fuss and contrary to what may have been expected — was required to be an Anglican clergyman !
20 Ministers from the 12 EC countries unveiled a new system which may involve around 40 multi-million pound takeovers being subject to the approval of the European Commission in Brussels each year .
21 This blend of Old-Testament-inspired genealogy with legendary classical origins enjoyed a new vogue in the eclectic learned circles of the period .
22 Two days later the Communists saw the new grouping as an " essentially disruptive organisation which can only hinder the development of unity between existing political parties and organisations against the Chamberlain Government " .
23 The Dutch administrators said the new company would concentrate on making medium and heavy trucks .
24 George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era .
25 As with Garling 's scheme , their proposals showed a new street between the two offices , but they sycophantically named it Clarendon Street .
26 LOYALIST terrorists used a new type of explosive device in the UFF attack on Sinn Fein councillor Gerard McGuigan 's home last week .
27 Imperial governments created a new elite of natives and invested them with the power of their language of administration and justice .
28 Following the demise of the canal , the old wharf buildings found a new use as hay barns for the adjoining farm .
29 From the kitchens came the new master , carrying an armful of cardboard chain-mail .
30 The young earls who attended the Dunstable tournament were now to take a leading part in Edward 's wars , and with a new generation of earls came a new strategy .
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