Example sentences of "and [verb] new [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For the industry as a whole , however , 1990 had been a bad year , with the Gulf war scuppering much of the expected sales growth , and planned new capacity raising the spectre of price wars and poor returns for manufacturers .
2 They pinned down the boards and laid new felt and carpet — unaware Mike was underneath .
3 The third project concerns the impact of new technology and relations between technology suppliers and the small firms in the lead project as well as the extent to which owner-managers themselves innovate and Influence new technology .
4 The article went on to say that staff employed in the tourist industry were getting a raw deal , and that the government should take a hard line and introduce new legislation on taxation for the hotel industry .
5 The patterns of employment in Britain are being re-structured by employers seeking to maintain their market position during the current recession , and introduce new technology .
6 Obviously , the abundance of offers and the haste to try and cover new ground have led to over-production .
7 Delaney took out the nearest , then rolled away and sought new cover .
8 Unfortunately , much traditional language teaching , in its zeal for practising verb tenses and using new vocabulary , has concentrated exclusively on longer forms ( Answer with a full sentence please . ! )
9 The meetings programme includes small workshops bringing together academics with government and private sector economists ; lunchtime discussion meetings at which Research Fellows speak on policy-relevant topics , with audiences from Whitehall , Westminster , business and the academic community ; academic workshops , seminars , colloquia and conferences ; and periodic meetings of the Research Fellows in each programme to discuss and organise research and to plan new research initiatives .
10 There were enough new coaches at last to enable the steam-heat-only Mark 1 vehicles to be discarded , and enact new operating practices with newly converted electric heat , air-braked diesel locomotives .
11 Revamping it to use some of the existing film and to include new film and new voice over and new look , it 's about five or six thousand pounds .
12 In the meantime , most of the original Classes 302 , 304 , 305 , 307 , 308 have been turned into open saloons and given new seating and gangways .
13 ‘ It 's no use levering a Portakabin down off a lorry , filling it with children and assuming that a child 's day will be enriched — it wo n't , ’ warns Gordon Sturrock , marketing manager of Interplayce , a young , innovative company which designs and builds new generation workplace nurseries .
14 Under the current wording of the legislation , companies can only make profits from supplying electricity and building new power stations .
15 Desalination plants also require a lot of energy , and building new power plants is difficult because of the state 's strict laws to control pollution .
16 Every Man bred to the Sea is a Benefactor to his Country and adds new Strength and Riches to the Kingdom every Voyage he makes " .
17 It says it is not currently in active financing discussions with any strategic partner or third party , but is in default under its bank credit pacts and needs new cash now to finance its operations .
18 The Central Policy Review Staff , or ‘ Think Tank ’ , which had been run by the polymath Lord Rothschild to supply Edward Heath with independent ideas and inject new life into strategic thought , was an early casualty .
19 I 'm not going to bother to go out and buy new paint when I 've got a damn great tub
20 As well as recording , developing and applying new processing facilities , such as graphics or word processing , within the framework of the personnel information system , the Group Personnel Information Services Department has a responsibility to advise on and co-ordinate developments to the Payroll/Personnel database itself .
21 She had relaxed , and found new confidence .
22 IBM Corp has licensed Leybold AG to manufacture and market new process and related equipment for producing semiconductor devices : Leybold will produce and market equipment for making devices with IBM 's low-temperature ultra high-vacuum chemical vapour deposition process ; terms of the deal have not been disclosed .
23 Just after Kathy left for London , David arrived with a bottle of champagne to spend the day and celebrate New Year 's Eve .
24 Morland can now go ahead with expansion plans , buying seventy pubs and signing new distribution deals for their beer .
25 Then mark , drill and plug new fixing holes in the wall , and fit the new box over the position of the old one .
26 They completed the epic length ‘ The Daleks ’ Master Plan' story as a joint endeavour early in 1966 , but thereafter they expressed a wish to branch outwards and explore new design horizons .
27 To compensate them for their lack of space , Chavez had paid for all the prisoners ' food and provided new plumbing and electricity .
28 He was always something of a showman and sought to attract extra revenue by utilising the tramway as an attraction : to this end he introduced Illuminations tours , reintroduced the Circular Tour and created new feature cars , attracting commercial sponsorship .
29 With rain hissing all around it , flowing on its ravaged and transmogrified new flesh of steel and wire and windscreen and rubber , the thing embraced Pearce 's bloody corpse ; crushing the flesh tightly to its chest ; feeling its own new flesh swarming around him , absorbing him , taking him into itself … and growing even larger .
30 The government plant to spend about £6 billion on a scheme to improve public transport and provide new rail and canal links for passengers and freight .
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