Example sentences of "[vb past] a new " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of the new Saturday l25mph High Speed Train service from Swansea to Pembroke provided a new job for the train guard : he had to leap out at Manorbier to open the crossing gates , wait for the train to clear the crossing , close them , and then walk seven coach lengths to give the driver the right away . |
| 2 | The decay of older loyalties with the onset of the colonial era provided a new social context in which these limitations on entrepreneurs no longer applied . |
| 3 | This discovery gave fresh impetus to research aimed at developing new drugs which , like aspirin , would relieve pain and control inflammation , and also it provided a new basis for testing candidate compounds . |
| 4 | In the textile industry a number of technical inventions produced an increase in output ; a way had been found of using coal , in the form of coke , to smelt iron ; and the steam engine was so improved that it provided a new source of power . |
| 5 | To circumvent an entrenched clergy and arouse the spirituality of those whose livings were so poor that they combined their priesthood with farming , shoemaking or fishing , he brought in ‘ lecturers ’ , unbeneficed clergy who provided a new preaching tradition , and organised sympathetic clergy into ‘ classes , or ‘ prophesyings ’ where the tenets of the new faith were discussed . |
| 6 | It provided a new slant on his character . |
| 7 | The structures created between 1963 and 1988 provided a new administrative framework for local government but such structures in themselves reveal relatively little about the practice of local administration . |
| 8 | The contributions that were to be offered with the study of process may be surveyed from the viewpoint of soil science and the biogeographer , from that of the climatologist and the geomorphologist and then from the field of hydrology which to some extent provided a new focus of interest for physical geographers and one that proffered a link between at least the geomorphic and climatic aspects of physical environment . |
| 9 | Lasswells model was speedily recognised to be flawed — it assumed that the communicator had the intention of influencing the receiver and made no allowance for a feedback element in the communication process — but it provided a new method for the study of communication and was the stimulus for further analysis . |
| 10 | Most recently , the Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 provided a new definition of a deed and also strengthened the rules concerning writing . |
| 11 | It has been said that the Acts " provided a new cause of action and did not merely regulate or enlarge an old one " . |
| 12 | In 1976 , Electricite/ de France ( EDF ) entered a new stage , launching a generation of 1300-MW reactors . |
| 13 | ARTS provision in north-east Essex entered a new era yesterday with the first meeting of a trust to promote painting and sculpture in the area . |
| 14 | After 1870 industrialization and urbanization entered a new phase , which economic historians have designated the second industrial revolution to distinguish it from the coming of industry to Britain over a century earlier . |
| 15 | My therapy with Dr Gyggle had continued and now entered a new phase . |
| 16 | The planning of British cities entered a new phase as a consequence . |
| 17 | Exploitation of the Auckland coalfields entered a new era in 1825 with the Darlington–Stockton railway , soon extended closer to the sea at Middlesbrough , where a town arose with startling suddenness . |
| 18 | The South Korean government 's policy of nordpolitik — the improvement of relations with communist regimes previously loyal to communist North Korea — pursued since 1988 , entered a new phase on June 4 when President Roh Tae Woo met President Mikhail Gorbachev for the first direct talks between a South Korean and Soviet head of state . |
| 19 | During that decade of major war , Britain 's near-monopoly of factory industry was sustained , and after 1815 she entered a new era of economic history in which the mutual influences of industrialisation and trade expansion could work freely , and in which , as Professor Thomas has expressed it , " trade was the child of industry " . |
| 20 | With the municipal elections of April — May 1945 and the final surrender of the Germans on 8 May 1945 , however , de Gaulle 's government entered a new phase . |
| 21 | THE UGLY industrial dispute at Timex entered a new chapter yesterday with the abrupt departure of company president Peter Hall . |
| 22 | THE UGLY industrial dispute at Timex entered a new chapter yesterday with the abrupt departure of company president Peter Hall . |
| 23 | Dona never had that problem because during her affair she entered a new and secret world that was so different from her other life . |
| 24 | Government minister Robert Freeman now had a meeting with Roberts and promised a new inquiry . |
| 25 | THE Chancellor promised a new era for British Rail last night just as this steam train became the last to run into London . |
| 26 | With a hug and a kiss from his stylish and loyal wife Hillary , the President-elect promised a new beginning for the country he called the Re-United States . |
| 27 | Butler 's building programme announced in his 1959 white paper , Penal Practice in a Changing Society , and the contemporary notion of the ‘ new generation prison ’ have each , in their own time , promised a new dawn . |
| 28 | The new government 's policy document promised a new constitution to replace the one formulated under military rule in 1982 . |
| 29 | An interim Constitution , approved by the King , was published in March and promised a new Constitution and fresh elections by the year end . |
| 30 | First came Four Saints in Three Acts , produced in 1934 , and then The Mother of Us All ( 1947 ) , which demonstrated a new kind of plotless opera only now reaching a wider currency through the stage works of Philip Glass . |