Example sentences of "new to the [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 She was new to the country and did not have many friends .
2 Possibly , as someone new to The Smiths and their legacy , I simply am not used to Moz 's sense of humour but , really , that joke 's not funny anymore .
3 I recall a day when I was new to the sport and I recall too the smell when lightning struck the limestone cliff on which I was climbing .
4 If your particular interest in the aquatics hobby is catfish then you have had a bumper year , for over the last twelve months various different catfish especially Corydoras and Plecs have been appearing , that are both new to the hobby and beautiful .
5 ( If they sound a little harassed , please bear in mind that they are new to the system and so may take a little longer to respond in the first few weeks of live running . )
6 Dave has spent some 20 years researching this fascinating subject and of the 1,000 or so entries there is a wealth of detail — much of which will be brand new to the reader and possibly just down the road !
7 Lawyer C was new to the town and aware of both this problem and that of breaking into an established market .
8 erm right I 'm new to the area and I 'm sort of wanting to move into the Garden City
9 Constable Quince was new to the job and , in Bramble 's estimation , unsuited for it .
10 ‘ Aye , except he pointed out that if she was new to the job and she tried to muzzle in around that quarter , the others would soon make short shrift of her .
11 For example , if a patient confesses to you his anxiety about a forthcoming operation and asks you questions about the procedure , you can explain that you are new to the ward and unable to answer his questions adequately .
12 This was done not without trepidation , for the experience of preparing and presenting a proposal for external validation was new to the College and it was recognised that the development of the proposals , and subsequently of the course , in the very limited time scale necessitated by the speed of the Programme , would create major workload problems .
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