Example sentences of "to a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially the subject will attend to a new stimulus but will then gradually lose interest and start to look away ( habituation ) ; if the stimulus is then changed in some way and if this causes a re-awakening of interest ( dishabituation ) then we can assume that the baby has detected the change . |
| 2 | It introduces non-state actors and so belongs to a new pluralism in International Relations . |
| 3 | Obvious points , perhaps , but important , since an adaptation to a new habitat can have a profound effect on a species ' fortunes . |
| 4 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 5 | Some modern projectors have an inbuilt device for quickly switching to a new bulb . |
| 6 | In the case of the Raybestos Manhattan project in Cork , we have a similar example of unreasonable opposition to a new manufacturing project invited into this country by the IDA . |
| 7 | Tolstaya buffs it to a new shine : ‘ The wind droned in the trees and water flew in the wind , and birds , cawing , bushed in billows in transparent trees , on rusty domes ; clear puddles trembled , reflecting the lights of stands selling dumplings , vodka and meat pies ; and alarm , life and desire breathed , smiled , and ran in the air — common property , unclaimed , no-one 's . ’ |
| 8 | The major loss was through transfer out as fifteen people were relocated or moved abroad on promotion or on changing to a new firm . |
| 9 | If you are subject to an express or implied mobility clause , which covers the move to a new base , the mere closure of the office or factory where you work at present will not in itself give rise to redundancy . |
| 10 | To a certain extent this made economic and political sense : in economic terms it is where the council had most leverage and control , and in political terms it represented a move to a new base , one built on the strength of the white-collar and public sector unions in the changing economy and society of Sheffield . |
| 11 | Fears that he would push Georgia into the Commonwealth of Independent States have largely evaporated following his promise to leave this question to a new Parliament , due for election in October . |
| 12 | On April 7 the Amir , in his first major speech since returning from exile [ see p. 38118 ] , announced that elections to a new parliament ( the National Assembly having been dissolved in 1986 — see pp. 34767-68 ) would be held in 1992 " after things settle down " . |
| 13 | Yesterday , however , the ministers endorsed a counter-proposal prepared by senior treasury officials , which asks that the current zero-rating mechanisms are maintained ‘ for a limited period ’ , on the grounds that too little time is left to adapt to a new system . |
| 14 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 15 | And I I think some of the lessons from Eastern Europe are that they have tried to go from one old system to a new system at an incredibly swift pace . |
| 16 | However , as we are using incremental change instead of wiping the slate clean and trying to move to a new system , we are avoiding huge extra costs at one fell swoop and also avoiding creating a system in which there would be many losers as well as gainers at the point of change . |
| 17 | ‘ Why ca n't we move away entirely and to a new system which after proper and full consultation would set prices and regimes periodically ? ’ |
| 18 | Traders at Goldmans Sachs new London headquarters need no longer leave their desks for a minute thanks to a new system devised by CCG . |
| 19 | Branson had already moved home , and office , to a new houseboat , the Duende : now the Denbigh Terrace house was sold , along with two flats in Vernon Yard and a shop in Brent Cross . |
| 20 | The new scheme involves the widening of a minor road through the Aspe Valley — home to a colony of 10 bears — in order for it to serve as a major access highway to a new tunnel under the Somport Pass , across the Spanish frontier . |
| 21 | In so far as the approach to a new transaction has not been covered by the general comments made above , much depends on whether the conveyancer is acting for a seller or a buyer . |
| 22 | Now , they 've just won a £50,000 order to supply 59 instrumenmts to a new Museum of Music in Taiwan . |
| 23 | Each of the three most recent treaties between the Russian and Ottoman Empires ( Kuchuk Kainardji in 1774 , Jassy in 1791 , Bucharest in 1812 ) had shifted the tsars ' frontier to a new river on the north-western edge of the Black Sea ( the Bug , the Dniester and the Pruth ) . |
| 24 | It will also rekindle suspicions among the Euro-sceptical wing of the Tory Party that the MEPs , led by Sir Christopher Prout , have sold out to a new brand of Euro-federalism , redolent of continental social and industrial consensus politics . |
| 25 | It is highly significant that he had used this expression in a letter written from the conclave to a friend , Giuseppe Piazza , the Bishop of Bergamo : ‘ My soul finds comfort in the thought that a new Pentecost can blow through the Church , renewing its head , leading to a new ordering of the ecclesiastical body and bringing fresh vigour in the journey towards truth , goodness and peace ’ ( Capovilla , 1978b , p. 47 ) . |
| 26 | Sun Microsystems Inc remains the top workstation vendor in Japan , according to a new Dataquest report , having led in that market since 1987 . |
| 27 | Advertising is limited to a new issue by an investment trust , and to investment trust saving schemes . |
| 28 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 29 | Queen Margaret College yesterday announced plans for a major expansion on to a new campus , costing up to £10 million and aimed at carrying the former domestic science school to the size required for university status . |
| 30 | They 've been encouraged by the response to a new artist 's impression of a man seen in the village . |