Example sentences of "is [verb] new [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Community is to implement new moves to protect the environment which could raise petrol prices by up to four pence a gallon throughout Europe . |
| 2 | BNFL is to plough £15,000 into a local organisation whose aim is to support new businesses and create jobs in an area with one of the highest levels of unemployment in Lancashire . |
| 3 | One might think that with the nation stuffed full of church buildings , few of which are stuffed full of people , the last thing needed is to plant new ones . |
| 4 | Increasingly , it is this type of study , rather than more expensive excavation , which is allowing new discoveries to be made at Pompeii . |
| 5 | In ‘ The Sunday Morning Fuddle ’ the insufferably sentimental parlour ballad ‘ Before the Bells Did Ring ’ is given new words which turn it into a comic epic about Sunday morning boozing , in which the hero ends up so ‘ fuddled ’ he is arrested ( Ex. 1.10 ) . |
| 6 | Dillons is expanding its market and is opening new bookshops every year . |
| 7 | United 's chairman says that short of selling players , the only way to save the club is to find new backers . |
| 8 | The task of the little girl is to find new variations and discover individuality , secure in the broader structure of the dance . |
| 9 | One way in which , for example , financial institutions have reacted is to innovate new assets which can evade control by monetary authorities . |
| 10 | They claim it is driving new jobs away from the area . |
| 11 | If the package is to contain new modules , their names must be added to the ‘ MODULE-RELATIONS-ARE ’ section in the form : |
| 12 | If the package is to contain new modules , their names must be referenced as LATEST resulting in a ‘ MODULE-RELATIONS-ARE ’ reference of the form : |
| 13 | The plane maker , Boeing is ordering new inspections on seven hundred jumbo jets following last month 's Amsterdam air tragedy . |
| 14 | It may indeed be out of date in that it was yesterday 's intellectual fad , but the positivist position I have outlined seems the only possible one for someone who is seeking new laws , and new ways , to describe the universe . |
| 15 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |
| 16 | What is perhaps more significant is that a new minister will also find that his department is developing new policies . |
| 17 | The following list is just a sample of new courses and schemes , many of which illustrate the way that the University is developing new ideas to meet the needs of people who want further training but who are not in a position to commit themselves to full-time study . |
| 18 | A legislative authority on the other hand is one whose job is to create new reasons for its subjects , i.e. reasons which are new not merely in the sense of replacing other reasons on which they depend , but in not purporting to replace any reasons at all . |
| 19 | Dury is writing new songs , in period English , for a production of A Jovial Crew , a play which was written in 1641 and last performed in 1724 . |
| 20 | THE Scottish Gallery in Dundas Street , Edinburgh , is presenting New Paintings and New Drawings by Brian Fojcik . |
| 21 | HIGH quality is securing new markets in the USA for plastic moulding material Dexel after more favourable exchange rates enabled the Courtaulds Chemicals business to be price-competitive . |
| 22 | Meanwhile Equity is adding new fields of jurisdiction . |
| 23 | At the time of his exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery ( 14 May-11 July ) , Frith Street Gallery is exhibiting new paintings and drawings by Tony Bevan ( 19 May-3 July ) . |
| 24 | Karsten Schubert is exhibiting new paintings by Keith Coventry ( 2 July-1 August ) , and Francis Graham Dixon shows eight recent table sculptures by Brian Wall ( to 2 August ) , who worked as Barbara Hepworth 's assistant from 1955–60 and then left this country in 1969 to go to Berkeley 's University of California where he is now Professor of Art . |
| 25 | Benjamin Rhodes is exhibiting new sculptures of household objects by Zadok Ben-David ( to 13 June ) , who represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1988 . |
| 26 | The intention , says D , is to nurture new performers and broaden the scene 's support base : ‘ It 's up to us , the established people , to bring this thing further and then for the next wave to strengthen it even more . ’ |
| 27 | BRISTOL Cancer Help Centre is to publish new recommendations on diet for cancer patients early in the new year . |
| 28 | Now the government is considering new warnings on steroids … |
| 29 | Their fears have been enhanced by the recent announcement from the Department of Transport that it is considering new plans to relieve congestion on the M25 . |
| 30 | The government is considering new measures to control the student protests . |