Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If we were to introduce a new toy to a litter of puppies , they would play with it . |
| 32 | The aims of this plan were to produce a new generation of francophile elites and to convince Algerians that only France was willing and able to modernize their country . |
| 33 | With the declaration of the Schuman Plan in May 1950 , European union was to acquire a new momentum and dimension , one that would proceed on a narrower front with the involvement of only a few countries , and in policy terms with a much more specific focus than that held by those who dreamed of European political federation . |
| 34 | The moralization of public life , under pressure from evangelicals , was producing a new language of politics and an insistence that men holding public office should outwardly subscribe to respectable standards of personal conduct . |
| 35 | He was born Femão de Magalhães , and the Portuguese — ‘ he is ours ’ , they insist — rarely care to acknowledge that he renounced his citizenship after a row , pledged his allegiance to King Charles I — later to become the Emperor Charles V — and was given a new name : Hernando de Magallanes . |
| 36 | His sister died , and to avert evil influences the boy was given a new name : Sukarno , or Karno . |
| 37 | Thus in eighteenth-century Europe the traditional typology of monarchy , oligarchy and democracy , originally formulated by the Greeks , was given a new sense in the writings of Montesquieu by the contrast between ‘ Oriental despotism ’ and the monarchies of Western Europe , which was further developed by Adam Smith , Hegel and later economists and historians , and played a considerable part in the formation of Marx 's conception of the Asiatic mode of production ; one main feature of the contrast being the ‘ progressiveness ’ of Western societies as against the ‘ immobility ’ of Asiatic societies . |
| 38 | For Christmas the following year , the month after the Armistice , Artemis was given a new doll . |
| 39 | A man has made medical history by having four organ transplants.In two operations he was given a new heart , two lungs and a kidney.It was the first time in Europe so many organs had been replaced successfully.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 40 | A MAN of 35 who was given a new liver in the world 's first baboon-to-human transplant has died 71 days after the historic op in Pittsburgh , USA . |
| 41 | Kelly , of Gainsborough Avenue , Maghull , was given a new liver in an operation at Kings College Hospital a week ago . |
| 42 | The compound was given a new number and the biological data declared secret . |
| 43 | All Souls was given a new roof oversailing the upper parapets , throwing water directly on to the lower aisle roofs . |
| 44 | However , her needs were totally ignored in that she was given a new posting to Aldershot — home of the Parachute Regiment . |
| 45 | As I happened to discover casually ( not a great discovery ) , the same pamphlet was given a new frontispiece and a new tit ] e in 1747 . |
| 46 | When the day came , Grégoire was carefully prepared : he was given a new haircut ; George himself supervised his washing procedure , which was inclined to be haphazard . |
| 47 | DALIAN ATKINSON was given a new role at Villa and responded with two stunning strikes as they laid claims to the Premier League title . |
| 48 | Sarah was given a new apron to wear for work and an embroidered handkerchief for herself , a very pretty one with lace round the edge which was much too good to use . |
| 49 | With this interest in the western hemisphere went a renewed interest in the East : in 1657 the East India Company was given a new charter and put on a much more durable basis . |
| 50 | A hospital spokeswoman said it was very pleased with the progress made by Philip O'Rourke , from Donegal Town , who was given a new kidney in an operation on Tuesday night . |
| 51 | Soon after departing Ronaldsway he changed frequency to Warton LARS , passed his details and was given a new transponder code . |
| 52 | Madama Butterfly was given a new production by Scottish Opera in 1987 . |
| 53 | The election of the Thatcher government in 1979 was to see a new approach to the management of the civil service . |
| 54 | 1–7 A powerful crane was building a new quay at Ardbeg distillery and a diver was laying the outer walls . |
| 55 | He had some land near Port au Prince , and he was building a new town . |
| 56 | But the disruption of plague , of Frenchmen and English squabbling was helping a new move towards prosperity and stability . |
| 57 | In 831 , Charles was assigned a new importance in Louis the Pious 's reconstructed family . |
| 58 | Since our rather unsuccessful sortie to Scotland during the winter of 1971 the Klondyke trade had revived and was bringing a new prosperity to the north west . |
| 59 | Louise had baked a pie for him and was bringing a new pair of sheets from the airing cupboard . |
| 60 | One of the last acts of the short-lived vacillating Monis government was to draft a new bill recognising both the Marne and the Aube , but as two distinct districts . |