Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , when very drunk , Simon had phoned me late one night to try out a new concept , the ‘ Uzi-O-Gram ’ , which had the catchline ‘ Shoot up your girlfriend 's wedding , just for fun ! |
| 2 | To find out a new research programme was started , fresh water biologist Doctor Alistair . |
| 3 | to work out a new Defence policy in the light of present strategic needs which would secure substantial reduction in expenditure and manpower ; at the same time to prepare a plan for reshaping and reorganising the armed forces . |
| 4 | New buildings going up above broad boulevards ; spacious parks and rose-filled gardens , under a sky dramatic with cloud patterns ; the sense of a vigorous and tough-minded white community , with some at least eager to work out a new society along with the blacks . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got to work out a new course . ’ |
| 6 | This was the sixth show , so I had six days to work out a new act . |
| 7 | The assumption is that Rizzo 's appointment to the finance post is a short-term measure and that his key function will be to work out a new pricing strategy , which means that anything we have heard on pricing on the new ES/9000s and AS/400s due next month will be overtaken by events . |
| 8 | For example , if you were able to work out a new method of organizing stock shelves so that components were more quickly available to people on the factory floor this would show perfectly that you ‘ are able to show initiative ’ . |
| 9 | Negotiations are under way to work out a new method of payment . |
| 10 | Mr Lawson is right to ask the nuclear industry to spell out a new R&D effort . |
| 11 | The luthier , Tony Rockett attempted to track down a new steel rod for my bass , only to discover that nobody in this country supplies Warwick spares . |
| 12 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 13 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 14 | After a year or two I was nipping out at lunchtime to pick up a new skirt for the office party , calling at the dry cleaners , handing in the photos to be developed and meeting friends for lunch with the best of them . |
| 15 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
| 16 | Because of this , it can operate for 15 hours continuously at full power , stopping only to pick up a new coal pack . |
| 17 | Just as the critics were beginning to complain about overdoses of city life along came Cagney to inject new energy into the genre and in effect to open up a new era for the movies . |
| 18 | The establishment of Georgia completed the process of coastal settlement , and it was close enough to the Spanish colony of Florida to open up a new area of conflict . |
| 19 | No sooner had ‘ Red ’ Braswell , then President of AKA , publicised in 1978 a conversion of the simple plastic-sailed Gayla ‘ Baby Bat ’ from single to two-line for what was then christened Figurekiting , than the inventive kiters in America applied new thought to open up a new phase . |
| 20 | ( d ) Restraint covenants Whenever it is intended to open up a new office the partners must as a matter of urgency consider the adequacy of the restraint covenants to which they have agreed to submit themselves and which they have imposed on their key employees . |
| 21 | Hawkins withdrew from this dangerous line of business , though he felt his enterprise in trying to open up a new line of trade deserved recognition and he put a black slave on his coat-of-arms . |
| 22 | The Transport Secretary has decided to set up a new rail pension scheme to safeguard their interests . |
| 23 | William Waites , of the University of Nottingham 's Department of Applied Biochemistry and Food Science , has urged the government to set up a new organisation along the lines of the US Food and Drug Administration , but without responsibility for drugs . |
| 24 | Fortunately , it was n't long before I was approached by other people to set up a new gallery . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ The new government is trying to set up a new country but they have no natural resources and they are desperately short of everything . |
| 26 | In the end a narrow majority endorsed the declaration as proposed by radical delegates from West Siberia 's Kuzbass coalfield , who had forced the issue by voting on Oct. 25 to set up a new union whether or not the congress supported them . |
| 27 | An examination of the draft legislation also reveals that both acquirers and despatchers of goods are required to set up a new register of these movements . |
| 28 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 29 | She and Liewer returned to France 7–8 June 1944 to set up a new group of resisters between Limoges and Périgueux . |
| 30 | Pan Macmillan has appointed Ellen Grout contracts manager to set up a new department responsible for negotiating Pan Macmillan 's head contracts . |