Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the need arose to find a new lord lieutenant for East Sussex in succession to the Queen 's horseracing chum , the Marquess of Abergavenny , the name which emerged from Downing Street was not that of another grand county family but Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson , a retired naval engineering officer whose address , 74 , Dyke Road , Brighton , hardly hinted at rolling acres . |
| 2 | Sir Christopher Wren [ q.v. ] helped build a new meeting-room above Stringer 's laboratory in Blackfriars . |
| 3 | IBM , Borland International , Gupta Technologies Inc , Novell Inc and WordPerfect Corp rallied to support a new database application programming interface , the Integrated Database API ( IDAPI ) . |
| 4 | He also studied under the successful architect Isaac Ware [ q.v. ] whom he helped prepare a new edition of Lord Burlington 's Fabbriche Antiche , a book of engravings from the collection of Palladio drawings belonging to Lord Burlington ( Richard Boyle , third Earl of Burlington , q.v . ) . |
| 5 | And , indeed , they helped to establish a new resurgence of interest in the sociology of law . |
| 6 | As the British moved to create a new regime for their airlines after the war , the outstanding unresolved issue from the Chicago conference remained : the need for an Anglo-American air transport agreement . |
| 7 | tried to inaugurate a new concept of citizenship which would link men of different social classes , The concept was based upon the notion that there was a good common to members of all classes , a goal the existence of which could be established from German Idealist metaphysics and which could be made visible in actual measures of educational reform and social welfare . |
| 8 | Her men stood around , kicked up dust from the ground , and tried to invent a new game . |
| 9 | They claimed that the party was in the grip of militant right-wing extremists , and proposed to form a new party led by Özal . |
| 10 | The Scots spirit of liberty , frustrated at home , had been exported to magnify the noble principles that helped create a new world across the wide Atlantic . |
| 11 | He tried to start a new conversation . |
| 12 | She says she hoped things would improve but they did n't so she tried to start a new life . |
| 13 | Assassins were proofed against pain , but surely Meh'Lindi must be aware of some agonies as her body strained to adopt a new shape in obedience to her will . |
| 14 | ‘ Theory films ’ such as Sally Potter 's Thriller ( 1979 ) , Laura Mulvey 's own Amy ! ( 1980 ) and Riddles of the Sphinx ( 1976 ) , both made in collaboration with Peter Wollen , and theory-informed documentaries like Michelle Citron 's Daughter Rite ( 1975 ) and Susan Clayton and Jonathan Curling 's Song of the Shin ( 1979 ) all tried to forge a new film language outside of the established structures of mainstream cinema . |
| 15 | That is why already in 1968 , when I was first in government , we tried to develop a new hybrid of social justice and a market economy . |
| 16 | Thirdly , and following on , the debate helped to formulate a new image of young workers and to project it , not only well beyond the immediate confines of the reformers and their circles , but also well beyond the realms of education into the public domain . |
| 17 | The three proposed drafting a new constitution for those republics which wished to stay in Yugoslavia as a " conferation of equal republics and peoples " and the signing of a " historic agreement " between the Serbian and Moslem communities in Bosnia . |
| 18 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 19 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 20 | It seemed to promise a new beginning , almost a new birth . |
| 21 | If a keycard is lost the lock is simply and quickly recoded to accept a new card without the need and cost to replace a lock or reckey a cylinder . |
| 22 | Christ came to establish a new society on earth . |
| 23 | Personal delight and considerable sensitivity is evident in his work ; whether the delicate pencil studies of his middle years or , later , in his watercolours in which he seemed to find a new kind of inner freedom . |
| 24 | It is debatable indeed whether or not Jesus came to found a new religion . |
| 25 | Late in the eighteenth century a distinguished West of England breeder called James White Parsons experimented to create a new breed by crossing his Devons with French and Indian cattle of unspecified breed . |
| 26 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 27 | Once you 'd done a new paragraph like they did like this blah blah blah in here . |
| 28 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 29 | Ivan fired again , short experimental bursts as if he 'd got a new power-drill from the Christmas tree . |
| 30 | He 'd had a new set made for him by the professional but somehow could not get used to them . |