Example sentences of "it [vb past] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It agreed a new report which recorded widespread evidence that the world 's temperature was increasing . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , belatedly in keeping with its stand on law and order , it tabled a new clause that disallows , in computing taxable income , expenses which themselves constitute the commission of a criminal offence . |
| 3 | 3 The act not only created a situation in which the House of Lords had to give way to the House of Commons , but in providing for the " representation of the people " it admitted a new principle of linkage between the state and society . |
| 4 | Secondly , it produced a new figure at the dinner table : the railway bore . |
| 5 | Morse said it lent a new meaning to the phrase ‘ keeping a shop ’ . ’ |
| 6 | The idea was a novelty , it illumined a new area of thought in Isabel Lavender 's mind , and she felt a little daring , a little afraid , at bringing up for scrutiny something she had so long taken for granted . |
| 7 | It provided a new slant on his character . |
| 8 | Lasswells model was speedily recognised to be flawed — it assumed that the communicator had the intention of influencing the receiver and made no allowance for a feedback element in the communication process — but it provided a new method for the study of communication and was the stimulus for further analysis . |
| 9 | In the textile industry a number of technical inventions produced an increase in output ; a way had been found of using coal , in the form of coke , to smelt iron ; and the steam engine was so improved that it provided a new source of power . |
| 10 | This discovery gave fresh impetus to research aimed at developing new drugs which , like aspirin , would relieve pain and control inflammation , and also it provided a new basis for testing candidate compounds . |
| 11 | But it created a new kind of assignment , which was a legal assignment in the sense that the assignee might sue directly in his own name without making the assignor a party ; but it made certain special requirements : |
| 12 | But with a new editor , Tony Watson , keen to use pictures to advantage and a solid team of experienced photographers , it pursued a new direction . |
| 13 | The car was pretty sound in most respects — well used but not abused — and the existing faults would , the dealership assured me , be rectified before it found a new owner . |
| 14 | It proposed a new division of responsibility for finance between central and local government , and a structure of regional and national bodies to advise both the Secretary of State and LEAs on management tasks , while leaving considerable freedom of decision with both the LEAs and individual institutions . |
| 15 | It adopted a new approach , arguing for a continuation of EEC funding from national contributions until 1970 when , under the Treaty of Rome , the single market stage was due to be introduced . |
| 16 | It received a new boost in 1990 when John Gribbin and Martin Rees published their The Stuff of the Universe , where it was asserted that the universe came into existence solely in order to create a carbon-based intelligent life-form on just one planet — Earth . |
| 17 | Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator in charge of basic energy research , was enthusiastic : ‘ The work was promising in the sense that it identified a new way of effecting nuclear fusion even though there was no strong indication that it might be practical . ’ |
| 18 | On another level it signalled a new departure . |
| 19 | The NCCK welcomed the decision and said that it signalled a new era of reconciliation , justice , tolerance and brotherhood . |
| 20 | It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders . |
| 21 | Close attention to constituent needs has always been an indispensable condition for success in elections to the US congress , but in the 1970s it assumed a new significance . |
| 22 | It added a new dimension to the picture . |
| 23 | With it came a new sound — deep and frightening . |
| 24 | And indeed , feminism was quite happy with that , for it heralded a new way of being . |
| 25 | It is difficult for us to imagine now , but at the time this was a revolutionary book , not only because it put a new type of archaeological field monument , the deserted medieval village ( DMV ) , firmly on the map , but also because it heralded a new era in the study of rural settlements in this country . |
| 26 | In May , it opened a new petrol station in Hungary , to add to the 15 set up there in the early 1970s . |
| 27 | In 1992 , ICI recorded another world first when it opened a new plant to produce HFC 32 [ ‘ Klea ’ 32 ] . |
| 28 | Eventually , however , in May 1988 it signed a new agreement with the IMF , under which , in return for a supply of new foreign loans , it agreed to relax foreign exchange controls and open an effective foreign exchange market . |
| 29 | It bred a new generation of workers with no memory of mass unemployment . |
| 30 | There had already been examples in the fifties , notably Delmer Daves 's Broken Arrow , Robert Aldrich 's Apache and Sam Fuller 's Run of the Arrow , but it began a new trend in which the Western was appropriated by directors in order to express their liberal views . |