Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] a new " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Scotland , Livingstone ( 1962 ) , 15 miles west of Edinburgh , but basically for Glasgow overspill , was intended to create a new focus of industrial activity in the East Central belt . |
| 2 | The two Comrades put their signatures to a scroll which was then placed in a stainless steel tube and sealed into the concrete foundations of what was intended to become a new conference complex . |
| 3 | Then , in 1914 , major renovation of the building was undertaken to give a new large room , some 5ft. wider and 7ft. higher , as well as a new infants ' classroom and cloakrooms . |
| 4 | Increased mathematical precision was deemed to give a new scientificity to biological and evolutionary phenomena . |
| 5 | One day after her daughter 's death , she was driving to see a new house to which the family planned to move . |
| 6 | As a result of the election the SPD and Greens ( who were led by the pragmatist Joschka Fischer ) won a two-seat majority and the SPD mayor of Kassel , Hans Eichel , was expected to head a new " red-green " coalition . |
| 7 | On the basis of these developments it was decided to prepare a new , up-to-date universal chromatography nomenclature , which also takes into account the recommendations incorporated in the various other nomenclature systems developed since the original work of IUPAC . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By the mid 70's it was decided to build a new loading plant in Leith and for Methil to be run down . |
| 10 | And at this point when a range of established values were under scrutiny , the body was made to carry a new symbolic load which reflected the change from the social conformity of the previous decades . |
| 11 | The small Derbyshire town of Dronfield provides a vivid illustration of the way that an old market centre hardly bigger than a village could be gradually changed by industrial development and then transformed in character when the decision was made to build a new steel works there . |
| 12 | In June 1890 , Mr Park was instructed to erect a new engine shed of wood on the Haversham Bank at a cost of £580 . |
| 13 | In 1652 Alexis was persuaded to establish a new ‘ foreign suburb ’ in Moscow to replace the one destroyed during the Time of Troubles . |
| 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 | On the other hand , modern science was used to list a new vocabulary of transgression . |
| 16 | It was agreed to purchase a new machine at the cost of around £185 plus V.A.T. It was considered advisable to engage a regular ‘ caller ’ who would be paid for his services . |
| 17 | Prime Minister Gasan Gasanov [ given as Hassan Hasanov on p. 38774 ] was requested to form a new government , as the Supreme Soviet relieved the Council of Ministers of its responsibilities . |
| 18 | Nor is there anything to suggest that Gregory was attempting to create a new genre of national historiography , although his History is often , misleadingly , described as a history of the Franks . |
| 19 | and linked to that I was going to do a new information sheet , I found the old information sheet so I just bring that up to date |
| 20 | At this final glimpse , he was going to join a new mistress in Pisa , while Clairmont went on to Florence , then shrouded in thick fog . |
| 21 | With the support of the printed lines , Michael Banks 's performance regained the stature it had shown in the first scene and left no doubt that he was going to add a new excellence to The Hooded Owl . |
| 22 | Either the change in the quality of the air , or the feeling that she was going to start a new life here , made her feel much happier . |
| 23 | ‘ And suddenly , one night , after Jacqui had gone to bed , Marius suddenly said he was going to make a new will , and there was someone on holiday down there who was a solicitor — ’ |
| 24 | He was going to build a new place for her . ’ |
| 25 | Ah he said he was go he promised that he was going to bring a new disk , and then he had n't and then he did this and I thought mm I 'm not going to get a new disk out of him now it 's out of warranty and at least it 's working now and |
| 26 | The caretaker Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Shamir , was invited to form a new government following the failure of the Labour Party leader Shimon Peres . |
| 27 | Money was raised to build a new school in a better position , many improvements were made , and Mr Brocklehurst lost his position as manager . |
| 28 | This was bound to entail a new evaluation , which ( we may note ) might not necessarily be to Homer 's advantage , for all the undoubted " harmony " and " beauty " of the early epic . |
| 29 | For thanks once more to his Wagnerian experienced he was beginning to formulate a new interpretation of art , art as a whole , and , in accordance with the given pragmatic logic , a new interpretation of the " Hellenic sphere " as well : a view of Greece and Greek art in direct opposition to the traditional view of which Winckelmann was a prime source . |
| 30 | In fact , as we shall see in Chapter 3 , he was beginning to evolve a new kind of conservative philosophy , and this was in no sense a time-serving decision , so that when Coleridge returned to ‘ orthodox ’ religion , his interpretation of Christian doctrine was strikingly original . |