Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] a new " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that company were to set up a new pension scheme based on only 461 employees , the likelihood is that scheme would in no way match a scheme based on more than 10,000 members , as is the case with the Scottish Transport Group . |
| 2 | If I were taking on a new act , their ability to perform on stage would be second only to the quality of their songwriting . |
| 3 | Within weeks Combined Operations headquarters were to take on a new vitality . |
| 4 | In the east his men were in position , awaiting only his order to attack the Plantations , while to the west he was building up a new shape seeking new allies among the elite of City North America . |
| 5 | [ The Secretary of State 's immediate response to the report was to set up a new working party on English in the national curriculum , chaired by Professor Brian Cox , one of the members of the Kingman Committee . ] |
| 6 | Jim had left , moved on to London and was heading up a new Rapid Response Unit there in connection with HEMS , the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service . |
| 7 | I think he 's , he 's like the other day when he was here he was talking about how he was turning over a new leaf and stuff . |
| 8 | They were all coming into East Kilbride , there was b cos after all there was starting off a new town and they was building up then from it . |
| 9 | The curia was taking on a new role , as the centre of a vast network of appeals ; increasing numbers from near and far came to Rome in search of judgement . |
| 10 | Performance Technologies was showing off a new system last week targeted at OEMs and integrators active in the real-time and embedded markets . |
| 11 | From March 1859 it was clear that , when the empire 's local government was put on a new footing , people other than bureaucrats would be participating in it . |
| 12 | John was on Hermes ; Nora was trying out a new three-year-old she had just bought — a dun-coloured filly with white stockings , a little undersized but very sturdy and , the dealer said , ‘ a double-tit of great stamina . ’ |
| 13 | The Yard had had a tip months before that a big drug-ring was setting up a new and major operation in England . |
| 14 | Firstly , the feeling for the tradition is very strong in the village ; secondly , Gawthorpe is an ancient settlement — its history can be traced back to a Viking chief named Gorky and there is evidence that it existed in Roman times ; thirdly , the original custom was to bring in a new May tree each year . |
| 15 | During the late 1920s and early 1930s when John Maynard Keynes ( 1883–1946 ) was working out a new economic system where government intervention would stabilise the negative effects of free enterprise — low investment , acute unemployment — individualist man and collectivist man were fighting it out for supremacy . |
| 16 | In a burst of confidence one day he told me that he was working out a new system of numerology , developed from a study of people whose lives have been well documented . |