Example sentences of "been [verb] a new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With businesses looking at cost cutting across the board , American Express has also been targeting a new market . |
| 2 | Peter Scudamore has been building a new future since his retirement . |
| 3 | A Shetland Pony who was suffering from depression has been given a new outlook on the world . |
| 4 | Just been given a new exercise book , textbook . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | St Petersburg 's palaces have been given a new chance . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , this proposal has been so remodelled that , in reality , the old First Division has simply been given a new name . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In a further nod of respect to the great helmsman , his portrait on the Forbidden City has been given a new look . |
| 11 | New Zealand Test star Iro has not been given a new contract by Manly and was offered back to Wigan last week . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Instead it has been given a new imprimatur and left on the old job . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | From this viewpoint , football violence has been given a new meaning since the early 1960s . |
| 16 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
| 19 | POLICE station cleaner Ted Blight has been given a new job … looking after prisoners in the cells . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | American mediation , had been given a new lease of life by the Russian Revolution . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | Government boffins have been explaining a new weapon that destroys people but leaves houses intact . |
| 29 | ‘ The fans have been wanting a new face up front because of our recent goal drought . |
| 30 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |