Example sentences of "be [verb] new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building industry has today an appreciably larger number of men at work than in the years immediately before 1939 , though probably rather a smaller percentage of the total are building new houses . |
| 2 | We are building new obstacles and barriers . |
| 3 | Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz are building new car factories in the east , at a cost of DM5 billion and DM1 billion respectively . |
| 4 | The DIY firm Wickes , and Toys R Us are building new superstores there , creating thirty five jobs . |
| 5 | In a two-part feature , the life and times of this son of Manchester are given new depth , using many family sources . |
| 6 | In order to avoid the difficult question of whether the sea rises or the land sinks , it is customary to describe any movement involving a rise of the land relative to the sea as a negative movement of base level , or more simply as a rejuvenation since the processes of subaerial erosion are given new activity . |
| 7 | Some of the words listed by Hewitt are in fact just special uses of existing British English words , which are given new meaning within the youth culture : e.g. hard , soff ( soft ) , dread , star , sweet . |
| 8 | With the growing interest in waterlilies enthusiasts all over the world are producing new varieties every year . |
| 9 | In recent years the seedsmen and the chemical companies ( the latter are rapidly taking over the former ) have been producing new varieties of hybrid seeds , fertilizers , herbicides , pesticides , and fungicides , which together have made continuous monocropping feasible . |
| 10 | Cy-A is credited with having doubled the survival rate of leukaemia patients who have been given new bone marrow at the Westminster Hospital , London . |
| 11 | US electricity generators have been given new limits on the amount of sulphur dioxide they can emit after 1995 . |
| 12 | Second , the tax-collecting system has been given new teeth . |
| 13 | Social workers have been given new powers to use force to control troublesome youngsters in care . |
| 14 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 15 | MEN who want children after having a vasectomy have been given new hope . |
| 16 | Thousands of people who suffer from long-sightedness , have been given new hope of improving their vision , thanks to a new laser technique . |
| 17 | Welcome back : Cancer patients have been given new hope by the development of a drug to prevent tumours spreading through the body . |
| 18 | HUNDREDS of caravanners caught in the middle of a three-year planning row on Teesside have been given new hope . |
| 19 | It has the power to reform and transform lives ad through it countless people have been given new strength . |
| 20 | The IBMers who remain are n't making as much fuss as the outsiders looking in ; many are enjoying new challenges , finding new career opportunities . |
| 21 | I believe that there are four excellent fund holding practices in my hon. Friend 's neighbourhood , and they have been adding to the region 's total health care provision and are bringing new services to patients . |
| 22 | Five years as a plc and the link-up with BBDO are bringing new influences to bear at AMV . |
| 23 | ‘ But if we feel we are opening new locations just for the sake of it , we 'll start another chain , ’ he says casually . |
| 24 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 25 | Women are gaining new experiences which will help the national organization of women we all want to see formed , when we have a popular democratic government . |
| 26 | To this original settlement pattern have been added new housing estates ( both local authority and company owned ) and ribbon development of privately owned deluxe housing . |
| 27 | Of the 370 or so firms to which Barclays is lending under the scheme , about 50 are developing new technologies . |
| 28 | He produced many of the beautiful hybrid varieties that are still sought after by tropical waterlily enthusiasts — although now devoted tropical water-lily growers are developing new strains every year . |
| 29 | For example there are people who are developing new plastics on industrial contracts erm within a department with our school . |
| 30 | Chemists are hunting new ways to create basic compounds from simple substances such as synthesis gas . |