Example sentences of "to have [verb] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Everybody seemed to have bought a new dress for the occasion , and she had hardly finished paying for her suit . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Japan seemed to have invented a new way to create ultra-cheap money . |
| 8 | He lost his regular berth at full-back earlier in the season , but seems to have found a new lease of life . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Use to have to get a new business canvassing . |
| 12 | Nor do the advances in scientific knowledge , which began in Elizabeth 's reign and multiplied during the Stuart period , appear to have caused any appreciable weakening of the Christian belief of intellectuals , or to have created a new elite group of educated non-believers . |
| 13 | By 1879 , one exasperated commentator remarked : ‘ M A. Guyard claims to have discovered a new metal of the platinum group which he names uralium , from the Ural mountains , whence the ore is procured . |
| 14 | But women would never be equal , he reflected , pleased to have discovered a new profundity , until the day came when men stopped thinking it natural that their wives should always have the smaller car . |
| 15 | How canny of her to have chosen a new sweater with a roll neck . |
| 16 | For example , in areas of the South Pacific it is not uncommon for parents to have to relinquish a new baby to admiring kin who have claimed it ( Sahlins 1976b ; Silk 1980 ) . |