Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We think it 's time to try to create a new showcase for young galleries . ’ |
| 2 | Trying out new materials depends on what the artist wants to do and how the medium can be used to advantage ; at the same time it would be foolish to try to fit a new tool exactly into your pattern of work and thus limit it . |
| 3 | She had lied to him because she wished to evade the unpleasant truth of her life as a rich heiress , to try to make a new life free of old ties and old mistakes , where she would be loved as McAllister , who had nothing . |
| 4 | The father opposed Hitler and spent a year in a Nazi concentration camp in occupied France , then returned to Berlin in 1945 to help build a new Germany . |
| 5 | Only 16% planned to spend the lot , half of them to help buy a new home . |
| 6 | CHAMPIONS of the disabled are launching a £30,000 appeal to help fund a new shop mobility scheme in Birkenhead . |
| 7 | With Sir Thomas Cooke , his successor as governor , Herne appears to have been party to some extremely shady deals to break up the opposition group in 1693–4 , and to have engaged in bribery to help secure a new charter for the company in 1694 ; all this brought a parliamentary storm on his head in the spring of 1696 . |
| 8 | If she is withdrawn from school for two years to help produce a new language course eighty children will lose out . |
| 9 | To avoid creating a new problem I have had to shorten slightly the northward move of the Clerk Street stop . |
| 10 | Police dogs and a helicopter have been used to help arrest a new age traveller . |
| 11 | ‘ If you can get out of Ireland , find somewhere else to go to start a new life , then go . |
| 12 | Battling with the hospital bureaucrats , he 's finally permission to experiment using a new drug aimed at sufferers of Parkinson disease called L Dopa . |
| 13 | He takes an active role in key planning and new model decisions — most recently to start manufacturing a new car in the US — while , say employees , being happy to let others take the credit . |
| 14 | Scientists want to start testing a new drug which could revolutionise the treatment of cancer . |
| 15 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 16 | Would that be er a practical thing to do or would you have to start redesigning a new aircraft ? |
| 17 | To save installing a new Economy 7 hot water cylinder , the existing cylinder can be converted to direct or ( better still ) indirect operation by a wall-mounted gas circulator . |
| 18 | Incidentally , I knocked down the girders that were to go to develop a new pit which would come from Monktonhall into those reserves . |
| 19 | China , the world 's third largest pesticide producer after the USA and USSR , claims to have developed a new crop spraying technique which reduces pollution and increases efficiency . |
| 20 | He did n't have to get to know a new city like the boys from the country did . |
| 21 | Under the heading of political philosophy , feminist philosophers begin by arguing with the tradition , trying to reconcile feminist insights with already existing systems of thought such as liberalism or Marxism , and go on to attempt to define a new perspective in philosophy . |
| 22 | Of course they are rightly pleased to have agreed a new marketing contract with IMG for 1993–95 worth almost double the initial three year contract which guaranteed them $56m but is likely to be around $75m by the time it is completed . |
| 23 | Everybody seemed to have bought a new dress for the occasion , and she had hardly finished paying for her suit . |
| 24 | Eliot had recounted in 1916 how in the excitement of the Australian aboriginal corroboree ‘ with every stimulant of noise , torchlight , strange masks , and drink , the savage seems to himself to have become a new being ’ . |
| 25 | Moreover , the intricacy of the colouring can , and seems to be , influenced by horizontal and vertical circulation patterns in the atmosphere and by waves , both of which can transport material to altitudes where its colours are unstable but where insufficient time has elapsed for chemical reactions to have reached a new equilibrium corresponding to different colours . |
| 26 | The fact remains that the debate on contemporary art seems to have entered a new dimension , with doubt being cast wholesale on the quality and content of recent trends , and on the good faith of the public institutions which give them space . |
| 27 | Japan seemed to have invented a new way to create ultra-cheap money . |
| 28 | He lost his regular berth at full-back earlier in the season , but seems to have found a new lease of life . |
| 29 | Taylor was the first to realize that , on linguistic grounds , Swahili-land should be studied as three regions ; he was the first to study in depth the phenomenon of aspiration in Swahili ; he was the first and ( with the exception of H. E. Lambert ) the only European to compose and publish Swahili poetry ; he is the only European to have caused a new genre to be introduced to Swahili poetry , ‘ mahadhi ya Tela ’ ( Taylor 's tune ) . |
| 30 | Spanish industry and finance seemed to have taken a new lease of life , and the official propaganda machine lost no opportunity to attribute this trend to the sagacity of the Caudillo . |