Example sentences of "were [verb] [art] new " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the marshes were drained the new farmers chose to live on the embankments beside the canals and rivers . |
| 2 | The elder Pinney , owner of the largest sugar plantations in Nevis , would certainly have been less pliable had he realized that his sons were allowing the new tenants to have Racedown rent-free ; but in the event he quickly warmed to the young poet , and welcomed him as a guest to the family 's town house in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 , the period which first brought Wordsworth into contact with both Coleridge and Southey.7sup18 ; |
| 3 | However at the famous December '69 auction to dispose of the remaining assets , three of the Hunslets were given a new lease of life , virtually on home territory . |
| 4 | Not insignificant in this respect has been the upsurge of Soviet submarine activity in Swedish and Norwegian waters from the time a Whisky class submarine ran aground in October 1981 ; in August 1984 , these incursions were given a new twist by a Sukhoi fighter bomber 's six minute escort of a Swedish airliner into Swedish airspace . |
| 5 | In the following year they were given a new jurisdiction concerning redundancy payments , and concerning statutory rights to information about particulars of contracts of employment . |
| 6 | Led by Kate Coyne at her brilliant best , and an almost flawless Elizabeth Fancourt , rythmn 'n blues were given a new lease of life , so too was the haunting Ruby Tuesday . |
| 7 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 8 | ‘ We were fencing a new corral today . |
| 9 | We thought we were building a new Jerusalem , but these people seem hell bent on destroying Babylon . |
| 10 | Well the er point I 'd like to make is that as of last Saturday the er , erm , the Soviets were building a new submarine every forty days , they 're spending thirty five percent of the G N P . |
| 11 | Mr Herd said police forces were using a new command structure with one senior officer , referred to as ‘ gold ’ overseeing strategy for any big operation . |
| 12 | Instead of reverting automatically to the universal European scholarly tongue of Latin , they were gaining a new confidence in the language of their own people . |
| 13 | If you were to try a new carbon zinc battery on one of these testers , and then an alkaline one , in both cases the needle would bang hard over . |
| 14 | Of seminal significance , one quarter of these were to provide a new tenure group for British housing : the local authority council house . |
| 15 | The goals were to establish a New World Order which would prepare the way for the New World ‘ messiah ’ , the Lord Maitreya . |
| 16 | On the same day as Miyazawa unveiled the changes , Tsutomu Hata — Hayashi 's predecessor as Finance Minister — and a former LDP secretary-general , Ichiro Ozawa , announced that they were to establish a new faction . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not as though I were writing a new book , ’ Elinor said crossly . |
| 18 | This was a time when the universities were meeting the new challenge of implementing the Health and Safety at Work Act , which was designed for industrial and commercial organisations much less individualistic and varied than academic institutions . |
| 19 | Increasingly , the Ashleys were hiring a new breed of staff ; qualified and experienced . |
| 20 | They were researching a new power source that was being developed by a Danish engineer . |
| 21 | They kept ringing up their former colleagues , making out they were selling the new Royal Life Unit Trust , that they had risen above OTC dodginess . |
| 22 | If I were interviewing a new act , I would try to ascertain their sheer punishment factor . |
| 23 | But Citrine and Self defended their policy against critics , whom they felt were ignoring the new and differing requirements of larger organisations . |
| 24 | Lieutenant-General Abdul Haq Ulomi , who heads the country 's most powerful military and political body , said in an interview the two countries were testing the new surface-to-surface rockets in Afghanistan by supplying them to the mujahedin to use on Kabul . |
| 25 | The following day , we were shown the new Flying Kilometre course at Arc 2000 . |
| 26 | What the remit conspicuously ignores is the possibility that a change , as radical as the intended extension of industrial democracy , but in the essential character of trade unions might also be a need if they were to play the new part written for them . |
| 27 | No , no one told me getting the push , just said we were getting a new one so I mean that must have meant that we that he had n't Commiserations , but never mind |
| 28 | If governments were to manage the new capitalism then economic planning was clearly of the essence . |
| 29 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 30 | oh I thought you were buying a new one with that money |