Example sentences of "[conj] a new generation " in BNC.

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1 ( An ironic postscript is that a new generation of physicists is growing up right now that entertains certain reservations about orthodox quantum mechanics , themselves brooding darkly about their elders and muttering blasphemies about ‘ hidden variables ’ , a term held in unmitigated horror by this older generation of quantum theorists .
2 I have been encouraged to find that the young are not so predisposed to put me aside at the age of seventy and that a new generation of students and artists regard me as something of a cult figure .
3 He says that a new generation of students has been considering the " facts " that remain from a very different angle .
4 ( c. 1 ) Writing shortly after Charles 's death , he believed that a new generation of both kings and nobles could preserve the realm so long as they had the right personal qualities .
5 The field-grey of the Wehrmacht and a new generation of military heroes made the brown-shirted Party functionaries stand out in even more unattractive light than before the war .
6 Presumably it eventually dies , but that is less important than it seems to us mortals ; as far as this discussion is concerned the end of the cycle is reached when the present organism reproduces and a new generation 's cycle begins .
7 ‘ A scientific truth , ’ he wrote , and one can almost see the tightly pressed lips , hear the snapping of the pencil , ‘ does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light , but rather because its opponents eventually die , and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it . ’
8 Cash freely revives his back catalogue , fine by me — he gives them new life and a new generation deserves to hear where Nick Cave got ‘ Wanted Man ’ from .
9 Twenty-seven years after the Watts riots , nothing had changed , and a new generation was lashing out in blind rage .
10 They trace their breakthrough to a new architecture and a new generation generation of chips : the AMD 29050 for floating point and the VLSI POSE chip for rendering .
11 And a new generation of grey suits exerted greater control than ever before , as if the Apple saga had been read as a fable in which Youthful Naivety got its comeuppance from Business Sagacity .
12 The genes of the chosen one are passed across to REPRODUCTION , and a new generation begins .
13 ‘ Frozen Food Sold Here ’ said the signs and a new generation was born — the first to be raised on fish fingers and beefburgers .
14 But a new generation of satellites will carry particularly sensitive instruments giving more detailed information .
15 It is now possible to see the desperate farce of late fifties pop as a first tremulous step towards the liberalization to come : the publication of the Wolfenden Report in September 1957 recommended the limited legalization of homosexuality , while a newer generation of pop stars , like Adam Faith or the female icon , Helen Shapiro , pushed in from the margins towards society 's centre .
16 1990 is a good time for a Zeppelin retrospective since a new generation has grown up without all the negative associations that the band once had .
17 1990 is a good time for a Zeppelin retrospective since a new generation has grown up without all the negative associations that the band once had .
18 Revenue from increased sales achieved in this manner may be invested in further development of IT and as soon as a new generation of IT systems is developed the previous generation may be offered for sale on world markets .
19 I may as well tell the story , though a new generation , growing up since the Odonata arrived on Earth , will find it incredible .
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