Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more sophisticated provincial dealers tried to acquire the new denomination at the end of the year as a means of hoarding . |
| 2 | From there he went to Sion House , Middlesex , where he helped to plant the new conservatory . |
| 3 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 4 | Thames Water say they 'll come down hard on anyone caught breaking the new drought order which has come into force today . |
| 5 | Researchers at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford helped develop the new vaccine . |
| 6 | He also tried to prevent the new grammar schools from being reserved for the sons of the gentry . |
| 7 | Following the systems exercise and a full report to the client , the structures at two Colleges were examined in detail and revisions made to reflect the new requirements . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , Father told me you 'd opened the new girls ’ school , so I simply had to come to meet the new schoolteacher . |
| 9 | She 'd lavished the new moisturiser on her face , outlined her mouth with a muted pink lipstick , and for the finishing touch gathered her hair into a loose knot on top of her head with a length of black velvet purchased along with the cosmetics . |
| 10 | It was inevitable that the actor that seemed to epitomise the new Hollywood of the late sixties should work with one of the most fashionable filmmakers attuned to young audiences . |
| 11 | He seemed to regard the New Testament as a stormy sea in which he was tossed about in a little boat as he explored . |
| 12 | She underwent open heart surgery in a bid to solve the problem , but now needs an artery widened using the new techniques . |
| 13 | The two Hearthwares turned to meet the new foes , but Bicker 's blade had already slid into the throat of one , and Isay 's staff had split the skull of the other like a bruised apple . |
| 14 | By 1989–90 the budget was £15.54 million ( 0.53 per cent of the total government expenditure on civil science and technology research and development ) , with an additional £760,000 over two years for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and £5 million pledged to fund the new centre for the prediction of climate change announced by Mrs Thatcher in her UN speech on the environment . |
| 15 | All the defendants , with the exception of Giorgio Bonsanti , Soprintendente at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure , and Otello Conti , the director of the company contracted to lay the new paving , were found guilty of violating the law which makes provision for ‘ damage to national archaeological and artistic heritage ’ ( Article 733 of the Penal Code ) . |
| 16 | They would be at risk from the vastly increased number of cars and heavy lorries expected to use the new tunnel . |
| 17 | Derby found a means of holding his leader to ransom : a meeting of Lancashire Unionists which threatened to disown the new policy was adjourned for three weeks at his suggestion . |
| 18 | Maria Carlita Rex Doran began developing the new fuel in 1980 following a government plea to scientists to devise new indigenous power sources to meet the country 's severe energy shortage . |
| 19 | That term did n't last long , though , and ‘ Plate Tectonics ’ really came into being when scientists all over the world , such as Isacks , Oliver , Sykes , Le Pichon and Morgan ( to name but a few ) , began to apply the new way of thinking to specific parts of the globe . |
| 20 | After the overthrow of the Shah in 1979 the USSR ordered the local communist party ( Tudeh ) to support the Ayatollah Khomeini , and even began to supply the new regime with weapons . |
| 21 | At the level of the meta-discourse of the profession , few statements on the future of the nation 's health failed to reference the new dimensions of race and evolution . |
| 22 | But that did n't satisfy Mr Major when he decided to sue the New Statesman and Scallyway for their reports . |
| 23 | The colliery owners undertook to support the new Union by giving it sole negotiating rights ; by agreeing to deduct the Union contribution from wages ; by contributing 12,500 to the Union 's pension fund and by harrying known members of the NMA . |
| 24 | You started writing the new album , ‘ Secret Story ’ , a long time ago . |
| 25 | Hoping as always to avoid trouble , the Goldsmiths decided to require the new Schoolmaster to be examined before being appointed ; this was duly done , and Joseph Whittle , a graduate of Brasenose College , Oxford , took up his position with effect from 28th September . |
| 26 | He felt sure he could sweet-talk Antonio and get the 25 per cent equity he needed to put the new deal to bed . |
| 27 | ‘ Is that one of the reasons why you were keen to invest in the first place , even one of the reasons why you decided to back the new housing development ? ’ |
| 28 | He found a place for a year in the household of a wealthy London merchant where he started to translate the New Testament ; it became clear , however , that there was no possibility of printing it in England , so in 1524 he left for Germany , never to return . |
| 29 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 30 | Here we faced a familiar dilemma : the Department of Transport and the county council were seeking to improve a trunk road and , seeing a large area of parkland , decided to take the new road through the park , cutting off a large swathe near the main entrance gates . |