Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A Shetland Pony who was suffering from depression has been given a new outlook on the world . |
2 | Just been given a new exercise book , textbook . |
3 | He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) . |
4 | St Petersburg 's palaces have been given a new chance . |
5 | Unfortunately , this proposal has been so remodelled that , in reality , the old First Division has simply been given a new name . |
6 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
7 | Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous . |
8 | In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look . |
9 | New Zealand Test star Iro has not been given a new contract by Manly and was offered back to Wigan last week . |
10 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
11 | Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job . |
12 | Before Mr Morton 's operation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital , near Cambridge , he was introduced to a man walking around the ward who had been given a new heart only days before . |
13 | From this viewpoint , football violence has been given a new meaning since the early 1960s . |
14 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
15 | The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission . |
16 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
17 | POLICE station cleaner Ted Blight has been given a new job … looking after prisoners in the cells . |
18 | Capita Group , the management services company best known for collecting poll tax and operating TV licence detector vans but which makes most of its money operating computers for local authorities , has been given a new lease of life by John Major 's re-election . |
19 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
20 | The gymnasium , swimming pool and even classrooms have been given a new lease of life as part of a timeshare development — such facilities having been a positive attraction to buyers . |
21 | American mediation , had been given a new lease of life by the Russian Revolution . |
22 | Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows . |
23 | Moreover , there remains the failure to refer to the lukewarm approach of the House of Lords to the Barras principle , the presumption that when Parliament continues to use a word which has been interpreted by the courts it intends the word to continue to have the judicial meaning , but the author can no doubt contend that the doctrine has been given a new lease of life by the Court of Appeal in EWP Ltd v. Moore , and A-G v. Brotherton . |
24 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
25 | Chris Dick of Linguaphone , which has a joint venture in Russia , reports that to the familiar problems of inflation , bureaucracy and foreign exchange has been added a new threat , piracy , now ‘ an enormous problem ’ . |
26 | ‘ Middlesbrough face the exciting prospect of the Premier League and I have been offered a new contract . |
27 | But now my personal life has been … simplified , and I 'm back two doors away from where it all started , maybe I 've been offered a new beginning . ’ |
28 | Now we can reveal he has been offered a new deal worth an EXTRA 2,000 a week . |
29 | There would also be new roads and possibly other investment : the nearest town to the Sizewell site had been promised a new swimming pool . |
30 | By contrast the most depressing problem is the large number of people who have been sold a new tank set-up and a complete stock of fish virtually simultaneously … |