Example sentences of "new [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | For our purposes a new measure was developed , based on the principles of the ACER Speed and Accuracy Test ( Australian Council for Educational Research , 1962 ) designed to predict office skills and visual awareness . |
| 2 | The next I heard was when I had a complete breakdown of Robert and Janet 's income erm with the breakdown of how a new settlement was was brought about . |
| 3 | The public consultation exercise that was part of that erm Greater York study , and quite clearly the Greater York study was not a statutory plan , it was an informal plan , but it was the only way really that progress could be made in the absence erm of adopted local plans in Greater York , it was essential that that document was pursued to give a framework for the preparation of district local plans er and the greenbelt local plan , and the resolution that followed the consultation and the long body of work , and I 'll read it out , was that the development strategy for Greater York from ninety six to two thousand and six should be based on agreed sites within and on the periphery of the built up area , and that the residual requirement be met for the development of a new settlement or settlements located beyond the outer boundary erm of the greenbelt , a quite clearly there 's a major policy implication there that a new settlement was not acceptable within the greenbelt but would have to be er outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt , and the public consultation on that er study er attracted widespread support for a new settlement strategy in Greater York , all six authorities agreed that that was the direction er that had to be taken , it also had another benefit in that it enabled work on the York greenbelt local plan erm to proceed and that has now been taken forward to the stage where the enquiry terminated in May , it 's a joint enquiry in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , with a Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry in April ninety three , and we would hope that the inspectors report on that six month enquiry , when he considered all the objections to the er greenbelt proposals of the County Council , largely supported by the er District Council will be available er in the near future . |
| 4 | Now there is no definition of what 's small erm erm is erm in er P P G er thirteen and perhaps Mr Curtis could help us in due course erm on an assumption that the new settlement was somewhat larger that th what the County Council is proposing , whether that would erm change the view of York City Council , I I think there is another factor again I could be corrected on this by Mr Curtis and this tended to come out in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , er and that York City Council seem progressively to place more importance on peripheral development than on the new settlement strategy |
| 5 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 6 | Er at er presently operating at capacity , and would be well over capacity if if the new settlement was tagged on and again there are there is no scope or plans for their improvement . |
| 7 | The old index ( January 1974 = 0 ) then stood at 394.5 and the new index was launched as usual with base 100 . |
| 8 | Another new technique was ‘ head tennis ’ , in which equal sides of six or seven players used their heads as racquets . |
| 9 | In the generation after Lydos , Amasis and Exekias a new technique was introduced in Attic vase-painting : red-figure . |
| 10 | The style of the earliest red-figure does not differ from that of black-figure , and for long they flourished side by side ; but the new technique was to prove better suited than the old to new ideas of drawing and composition that developed as part of the general late sixth-century movement which undermined the conventions of archaic art . |
| 11 | In France the new technique was first used , by copying from a captured British vessel , in 1778 . |
| 12 | However , after the spirited French defence of April 9th-11th , even von Mudra admitted that this new technique was not likely to succeed . |
| 13 | As we had suspected , however , for most of the new entrants , the new category was peripheral to their main business interests and relatively few resources were committed to ensure adequate software and hardware build quality . |
| 14 | Where frequent comments could not be assigned to a pre-existing category a new category was created . |
| 15 | While bringing many qualities to his new post , Mr Snyder could not be said to possess great insight into the subject — in fact he did n't possess any sight at all ; the new chairman was registered as blind . |
| 16 | The new Chairman was Mr. J. C. Moult , with Mr. David Blank as Vice-Chairman . |
| 17 | Since the new contract was introduced another possibility has emerged . |
| 18 | It will be important to know whether the trend in nocturnal hospital admissions has changed since the new contract was introduced . |
| 19 | SHIPPING giant ACL today pledged to stick with Liverpool at least for the next four years after a new contract was hammered out between the Swedish-owned company and Mersey Docks and Harbour Company . |
| 20 | Toilet and shower facilities were improved and a new cafeteria was also built . |
| 21 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 22 | The nucleus of the new squadron was provided mainly by ‘ C ’ Flight of 261 Squadron , the unit 's ground component being provided by the latter unit and by 1430 Flight , an army co-operation unit which had been operating in Italian East Africa until the previous month , when the main campaign there had been satisfactorily completed . |
| 23 | Command of the new squadron was vested in newly-promoted Sqn.Ldr . |
| 24 | This funny and moving new play was the winner of the 1990 London Weekend Television plays on stage award . |
| 25 | It aims to turn the headphones radios and television group into a mini-conglomerate and says that in the five weeks since new board was appointed , ‘ considerable progress has already been made . ’ |
| 26 | The new Board was known to hold strong views about the replacement of tram services , particularly those where there was single track in narrow streets or worked by outdated rolling stock . |
| 27 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 28 | Rather lower down , a new crag was discovered by Niget and Dave Carson — Craig y Frank Carson — which lies parallel to , but behind , Carreg Hyll Drem . |
| 29 | In 1975 , a new sanctuary was designed by Messrs Langtry-Langton of Bradford , and finally in 1991 , to mark the centenary of the opening , a stained glass window depicting the life of St Cuthbert was placed in the church . |
| 30 | Technical services director Edward Carswell said rain had caused serious flooding in council houses on a number of occasions and a new drain was needed . |