Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
| 2 | Past experience is brought to bear on a new situation by a categorisation , a process regarded as central to thinking by Bruner and his colleagues ( 1956 ) . |
| 3 | William , 10 , and eight-year-old Harry were given airline packs of colouring books and puzzles but chose to concentrate on a new computer game . |
| 4 | Whatever lingering nostalgia he might have felt , Delves chose to look ahead , to concentrate on the new business opportunities that Mr Akayev is keen to encourage in his ‘ little Switzerland ’ , most of which has only in recent months been opened up to foreigners . |
| 5 | At his barracks in London 's Knightsbridge yesterday , the major refused to comment on the new allegations which are understood to have been made by a junior officer or private . |
| 6 | The millionaire Boss has agreed to appear on a new TV programme called Takeover , which highlights an outlawed squatter group who have seized buildings in eight US cities for use by the homeless . |
| 7 | WOULD-BE Barry Normans in Edinburgh are being given the chance to appear on a new movie review TV programme . |
| 8 | Immigrants , some of them Indian Tamils , arrived to work on the new estates . |
| 9 | Among them were men from Dulé 's people — five of this first shipment of slaves ; they were all to work on the new sugar plantation ; to stake out canefields in the rainforest . |
| 10 | Where decay has advanced along the joist into the building interior , it may be necessary to splice on a new timber end to the member , carried on a joist-hanger . |
| 11 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 12 | He was about to embark on a new life in New York with the most boring woman in Britain . |
| 13 | He was asked if he wanted to embark on a new life with a different identity . |
| 14 | Many people would balk at the thought of setting up a new business during a recession ; but to embark on a new accountancy partnership when half of it is about to have a baby would surely cause the strongest to flinch . |
| 15 | The company is also now expected to embark on a new round of lay-offs in addition to those already planned for , with the need for further provisions against its fourth quarter figures — despite still having $694m of the $1,100m reserves already taken that is not yet allocated . |
| 16 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 17 | Serious negotiations with the owners of the Greyhound Stadium next to the old ground are under way and are aimed at getting the club to play on a new pitch inside the track there , in a rebuilt 15,000 all-seater stadium . |
| 18 | Pedestrians are being encouraged to slap on a new type of parking ticket if they find a car blocking their way . |
| 19 | Union members are expected to vote on the new rules in the near future . |
| 20 | ‘ Now the good Lord knows better than to rain on the new Sandiford baby 's head . ’ |
| 21 | If he thought something interesting , he would desert what he was doing and amble off to meditate on the new idea , muttering to himself as he walked . |
| 22 | Work is about to start on a new building that will link two factory units , presently separated by a gap . |
| 23 | Work was about to start on a new street through to Clerkenwell Green and excavations were under way to raise the level of the road by several feet . |
| 24 | EUROPE 's research supremo , Commissioner Etienne Davignon , has returned from a trip to Tokyo determined to build on a new understanding over trade in high-technology goods to increase collaboration between Japan and Europe on costly research projects . |
| 25 | Applications from the XA2000 only need to be recompiled to run on the new XA/R models , which run both FTX fault-tolerant Unix and the proprietary VOS . |
| 26 | The Israeli contact , Al Schwimmer , offered to paint on a new registration and forge some new papers , but was politely turned down . |
| 27 | The congress failed to agree on a new name for the party . |
| 28 | THE ITV companies have publicly denied that they are at loggerheads after missing the deadline to agree on a new system for commissioning programmes for the ITV network from next year . |
| 29 | Prices plunged in October to their lowest level for more than 14 years ( taking the price of beans in London to £655 a tonne ) after the 74-country International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) failed to agree on a new price stabilization agreement favoured by the USA , the largest consumer , based on a greater allocation of the export market to some coffee producers , notably Colombia , at the expense of Brazil and the African countries . |
| 30 | A constitutional convention was elected in May 1975 to try to agree on a new form of government but it too ended in failure , leaving the province under direct rule from Whitehall , through the Northern Ireland Office and the continued presence of the army . |