Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] the new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the marshes were drained the new farmers chose to live on the embankments beside the canals and rivers . |
| 2 | The elder Pinney , owner of the largest sugar plantations in Nevis , would certainly have been less pliable had he realized that his sons were allowing the new tenants to have Racedown rent-free ; but in the event he quickly warmed to the young poet , and welcomed him as a guest to the family 's town house in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 , the period which first brought Wordsworth into contact with both Coleridge and Southey.7sup18 ; |
| 3 | This was a time when the universities were meeting the new challenge of implementing the Health and Safety at Work Act , which was designed for industrial and commercial organisations much less individualistic and varied than academic institutions . |
| 4 | What the remit conspicuously ignores is the possibility that a change , as radical as the intended extension of industrial democracy , but in the essential character of trade unions might also be a need if they were to play the new part written for them . |
| 5 | If governments were to manage the new capitalism then economic planning was clearly of the essence . |
| 6 | Die Entführung was being performed all over Austria and Germany , and , according to Leopold , the Berlin papers were advertising the new quartets , saying that Mozart 's name alone was sufficient to recommend them to the public : no other guarantee of quality was needed . |
| 7 | Clergymen accused the early Cremation Societies of creating local monopolies , which were putting the new practice beyond the reach of the poor . |
| 8 | Commenting on the contract , Gerry said : ‘ We were awarded the new contract against stiff competition from other FM companies , and look forward to continuing our relationship with BP . ’ |
| 9 | This is why I was so concerned when we were making the new set of the Beethoven symphonies in 1977 . |
| 10 | The main trend was for greater powers for the republics , which were to join the new union on a voluntary basis , choosing the level of involvement which they wanted to have . |
| 11 | By the time ZTT was formed the new pop sensibility had been subtly transformed into a commercial sensibility — the way to make sense of the pop process was in terms of market competition and success . |
| 12 | The conference , called by the transitional government set up following the overthrow of former President Moussa Traore in March [ see pp. 38083-84 ] , was to debate the new draft constitution . |
| 13 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |
| 14 | ‘ The Great Leader ’ was given the new title as 22 million North Koreans prepared to enjoy lavish birthday festivities in what the official media called ‘ the biggest national holiday ever ’ . |
| 15 | Last time it was to see the new designs at the boutique . |
| 16 | Thirty-five years later , in 1818 , William Wordsworth was helping the new Lord Lonsdale , Sir William Lowther , in the Westmorland elections . |
| 17 | This was to establish the new pattern of global authority in the post-cold war world — under the aegis of the United States , with or without the cloak of the United Nations sanction . |
| 18 | Dave Webb 's disappointment at missing out on the Chelsea manager 's job was eased yesterday when he was named the new boss of Brentford . |
| 19 | The same critical and questioning attitude which was forming the new approach to the Bible was at the same time stimulating scientific study and experiment and discovering the regularities in the natural order — what were and commonly still are called ‘ the laws of nature ’ . |
| 20 | The expressed regulatory purpose was to apply the new rules equally to all NVOCC 's , both foreign and domestic , ‘ inasmuch as foreign NVOCC 's were already subject to tariff filing requirements under the Shipping Act of 1984 . ’ |
| 21 | It was to discuss the new storage and filing systems to be used for the archive of de Chavigny designs , which had been replanned from scratch at Edouard de Chavigny 's insistence , and which would become fully operational that week , when the archive was finally moved to its new headquarters . |
| 22 | That year the twenty-five-year-old Cocteau was working on the book of Parade , Diaghilev 's controversial new ballet which was to express the new spirit in the arts , with music by Satie and Cubist costumes and sets by Picasso . |
| 23 | Evolutionism provided a parallel source of materialist concepts , but needed to be turned into a laboratory-based subject if it was to fit the new model . |
| 24 | He was wearing the new jersey that Tom had collected from Mrs Fletcher . |
| 25 | Well if you 're gon na get the bottom of the garden where you 're downhill it 's not too bad but when you 're coming up here and doing as he was watering the new grass on the front he he I mean yes he is below it it 's the bottom of your storage tank in c in the attic which counts . |
| 26 | His first task was to give the new group a strategic thrust . |
| 27 | The waterway was called the New River , and it originally ran forty miles to Clerkenwell . |
| 28 | To come to power in conditions of war was to expose the new regime to the maximum pressures of the world system . |
| 29 | South Korea 's Ji Soo Mo and Joon Ho Lee also finished second and third overall in the men 's event and their Korean team-mate , So Hee Kim , was crowned the new women 's world champion , collecting 13 points , with China 's Li Yan second and Japan 's Nobuku Yamada placed third overall . |
| 30 | Centre manager Susan Nicol said the management team would remain the same and there would be no noticeable difference to shoppers or tenants in the way Cameron Toll was run — although it was hoped the new owners would invest in a facelift for the centre . |