Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [prep] new " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one fell swoop , Virgin had acquired that most elusive of qualities , ‘ street credibility ’ ; the company roster now boasted groups like Magazine , Penetration , the Members , the Skids — what was becoming known as New Wave , a marketing term used to denote almost any performer that had emerged in the aftermath of punk who did not spit in his audience 's eye . |
| 2 | Despite the scale and depth of change little was done to prepare for new demands of management . |
| 3 | ‘ She went to Germany , ’ Flora said , stopping to peer at the wall , where moss was beginning to swell into new plump spring cushions . |
| 4 | It still had its pepper trade and the factories in India at Surat and Madras , and at Bantam in the East Indies , with a number of smaller bases , and it was beginning to look for new opportunities . |
| 5 | An important part of this particular procedure , for example , was the identification of the numbers of people it was proposed to place upon new points of each salary scale , to determine the financial implications and analyse the salary movements within each division of the company and make possible divisional comparisons . |
| 6 | The staff were also worried about his speech , not seeming to take into account the fact that this was the first time he had come out of a Punjabi-speaking environment and was having to cope with new experiences in a foreign language . |