Example sentences of "to build a new " in BNC.

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1 Fine September days with the last of the summer sun present the ideal time to build a new pond
2 At first , it appeared an anachronism for BR to go to a council and say , ‘ please give us some money to build a new station ’ or , ‘ we need a subsidy to keep this service going ’ .
3 Jan van Houwelingen said Italy would not participate in the Nato plan to build a new anti-aircraft frigate for the fleets of eight allied powers .
4 The recent fuss over whether to build a new town at Foxley Wood in Hampshire , for example , was a case where the then Secretary of State , Nicholas Ridley , intended to ignore the inspector 's advice to reject an appeal by the potential developers .
5 The efforts of African leaders to build a new political system within their countries in the last twenty-five years have not for the most part been successful .
6 Peter de Savary 's Canvey Island development has won approval from the local planning committee which voted 15 to one in favour of the plan to build a new community , against the advice of its chief planning officer .
7 THE ENVIRONMENT Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , yesterday finally rejected plans to build a new town of 4,800 homes at Foxley Wood , Hampshire , saying the county council should come up with fresh county-wide plans .
8 In 1763 the Reverend Thomas Whickens wrote to Bishop James in Hereford informing him that his rectory at Dormington was in a ruinous condition and asking his permission to build a new one .
9 There they are busily ferreting away food , medical supplies and weapons with which to build a new world after the current one is reduced to a moist cinder .
10 But a glance at the Soviet Union should be enough to remind Mr de Klerk that it is far easier to dismantle his predecessors ' oppressive structures than to build a new democracy in their place .
11 As well as doodling plans for supersonic jets , it wants to build a new family of airliners .
12 Germany can not afford to build a new airliner on its own , any more than Britain or France can .
13 The world of dreams , with its irrational juxtaposition of images , challenged the constructivist endeavour to build a new , modern , geometry .
14 When Bonn 's old-town fortifications were dismantled in 1717 , the stone was used to build a new palace for the Elector , Joseph Clemens .
15 Set far in the future , it told of the fall of a mighty Galactic Empire , and of the efforts of Hari Seldon , a great social scientist , to build a new and better empire out of the ruins of the old .
16 Celtic have unveiled plans to build a new £100 million stadium complex at Cambuslang in south east Glasgow .
17 British dignity and Hong Kong 's autonomy were dented last September when Mr Major had to fly to Peking — essentially to get Chinese permission to build a new Hong Kong airport .
18 This was not to be finished until 1954 because of the Second World War , and the need to build a new tunnel at Woodhead .
19 Not surprisingly , the Milanese were impressed by the miracle and over the years their offerings to the Madonna amounted to enough money to build a new church , the one that Bramante designed .
20 From that day the plague began to abate , and to show its gratitude the city decided to build a new church .
21 There is another brown-field alternative that has not been investigated : to build a new RIBA administrative building on a new site and sell 66 Portland place to the trust set up to operate the architecture centre and the library .
22 The Sex Pistols apparently instant recognition was in direct contrast to their original plan to build a new Bay City Rollers .
23 ‘ We bought a greenfield site to build a new set of studios .
24 In an attempt to build a new life for himself and his daughter , Paul Kersey takes a job managing a radio station in Chicago .
25 A meeting of Leaders and Trustees was held in the Carleton Cafe the following Friday evening , 18 December — they wasted no time — and after a prolonged discussion the decision was taken to build a new church as soon as possible and certainly within the following five years .
26 Two ideas were being considered by 1938 — either to build a new church or to remodel the existing church and build a new hall .
27 Here the Tebbit school of thought seems to be saying , ‘ It is up to the individual to build a new world through his own efforts . ’
28 Thus , as time went on , the Royal Saloons , although handsome and commodious , were becoming dated , so the Company wanted to build a new set of saloons .
29 With increased train speeds and the introduction of new techniques due to electrification , it was decided to build a new Royal Train to replace the 1941 saloons , and to update other Royal vehicles for speeds up to 100 mph in air-conditioned comfort .
30 Wolverton Works were asked to build a new string of four coaches , and to modify the ancillary Royal vehicles so they were compatible .
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