Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Some focus on a particular joint-venture subsidiary company ; some involve the sharing of research and development ; some are an alliance of production capacity with marketing strength ; some involve putting a foreign product under a domestic label ; some alliances are intended to promote a new standard or form of compatibility ( and to defeat a rival standard ) .
2 Several wild song thrushes in different parts of Britain — and some blackbirds too — have been heard singing a new song that bears a striking resemblance to the distinctive electronic warble of British Telecom 's ‘ trimphones ’ .
3 The theology of liberation first developed in the 1960s as a Christian Socialist philosophy which holds that it is the duty of the Catholic Church to work for social and economic reforms , particularly in the Third World , and to adopt the cause of the oppressed , These positions were approved at a meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellin , Columbia , in 1968 and represented a watershed for the church in Latin America , The Medellin documents openly denounced the poverty and brutality of the relations of production in Latin America : withdrawing support from the classes in power the bishops called , most significantly , for agrarian reforms , The documents proposed programmes , based on the method of Paulo Freire 's " education for liberation " , which were designed to promote a new sense of community action for change among the poor .
4 SunExpress Europe is designed to provide a new distribution channel for easy ordering and fast delivery of Sun products — choosing items from the SunExpress catalogue , customers can place orders by telephone , facsimile or post and receive products within five business days .
5 WITH ITS power and prestige slipping away and its leaders calling desperately for unity , 72 per cent of Polish Communists have voted to find a new name for their party , the Polish United Workers ' Party .
6 Policies to encourage marriage and child-birth were also designed to create a new army of workers and soldiers to serve the state .
7 The interior of the Bond Street shop has been remodelled to incorporate a new showroom on the first floor .
8 Increased mathematical precision was deemed to give a new scientificity to biological and evolutionary phenomena .
9 Across the water , none of the intrepid previewers appears to have got wind of DB2/6000 , but tomorrow , IBM is also tipped to unveil a new release of the DB2 mainframe database , version 3.1 with support for Distributed Relational Data Base Architecture for updating databases at multiple sites simultaneously .
10 Across the water , none of the intrepid previewers appears to have got wind of DB2/6000 , IBM is also tipped to unveil a new release of the DB2 mainframe database , version 3.1 with support for Distributed Relational Data Base Architecture for updating databases at multiple sites simultaneously .
11 In 1987–88 a new module , Graduate Careers , was introduced , designed to offer a new way in which student consciousness of this important issue can be raised .
12 Gateshead Council is being recommended to approve a new poll tax of £271 .
13 Microsoft Corp is expected to introduce a new version of Microsoft C/C++ , renamed Visual C++ , this quarter : now in beta test , Visual C++ includes Visual Workbench — a Windows-based development environment — foundation class libraries , App Studio — an editor which alters bit maps , dialogue boxes and cursors — as well as debuggers and browsers .
14 Estimated in excess of £200,000 , the wedding suit of James , Duke of York , later James II of England , is expected to achieve a new world record for any item of costume at auction .
15 Exceptionally , students are permitted to enter a new field and enter Stage II despite not having taken ( or passed ) one or two compulsory basic modules — such ‘ trailed ’ modules must be passed in Stage II .
16 For instance , when an existing part is modified to produce a new part only the modification is stored along with a reference pointer back to the original part .
17 Other transport schemes currently being considered include a new metro system in Sunderland and a Light Rail Transit System on Teesside .
18 ‘ My fellow Americans , on this day , with high hopes and brave hearts and massive numbers , the American people have voted to make a new beginning , ’ he told the crowd .
19 He told ecstatic supporters : ‘ The American people have voted to make a new beginning .
20 In Scotland , Livingstone ( 1962 ) , 15 miles west of Edinburgh , but basically for Glasgow overspill , was intended to create a new focus of industrial activity in the East Central belt .
21 In June 1890 , Mr Park was instructed to erect a new engine shed of wood on the Haversham Bank at a cost of £580 .
22 Miranda 's ten-man board of directors had recently been expanded to include a new chairman , the Earl of Brighton , and Frederick Swanson of Seligman Swanson , the merchant bank chosen to handle the SUPPLYKITS flotation .
23 Our church has decided to erect a new building so that worship may continue on the present site .
24 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 .
25 However , many people in the industry feel that the linking of these two centres of population and commerce will be secured in the near future and already marketing efforts are being made to secure a new operator .
26 Everyone is asked to bring their Teddy ; an attempt is being made to create a new record for the largest gathering of Teddy Bears and 1,075 are needed .
27 In its new freedom , it can be seen to cause a new reality to come into being ’ ( Hawkes 's italics ) .
28 The target selected indicated a new development .
29 All-India Radio reported on Dec. 20 that two major factions of the Akali Dal — the Akali Dal Longowal and the Akali Dal Panthic — had merged to form a new party .
30 For the past three months , as the illness slowly overcame me , I had struggled to start a new novel .
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