Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] new " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to avoid the difficult question of whether the sea rises or the land sinks , it is customary to describe any movement involving a rise of the land relative to the sea as a negative movement of base level , or more simply as a rejuvenation since the processes of subaerial erosion are given new activity . |
| 2 | Some of the words listed by Hewitt are in fact just special uses of existing British English words , which are given new meaning within the youth culture : e.g. hard , soff ( soft ) , dread , star , sweet . |
| 3 | In a two-part feature , the life and times of this son of Manchester are given new depth , using many family sources . |
| 4 | It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells . |
| 5 | Cy-A is credited with having doubled the survival rate of leukaemia patients who have been given new bone marrow at the Westminster Hospital , London . |
| 6 | MEN who want children after having a vasectomy have been given new hope . |
| 7 | Second , the tax-collecting system has been given new teeth . |
| 8 | On Feb. 14 , the crews of six SU-24 fighter-bomber jets who refused to take the oath of loyalty to Ukraine defected from Ukraine to Russia , where , it was later announced , they had all been given new postings . |
| 9 | US electricity generators have been given new limits on the amount of sulphur dioxide they can emit after 1995 . |
| 10 | Thousands of people who suffer from long-sightedness , have been given new hope of improving their vision , thanks to a new laser technique . |
| 11 | Social workers have been given new powers to use force to control troublesome youngsters in care . |
| 12 | Welcome back : Cancer patients have been given new hope by the development of a drug to prevent tumours spreading through the body . |
| 13 | HUNDREDS of caravanners caught in the middle of a three-year planning row on Teesside have been given new hope . |
| 14 | It has the power to reform and transform lives ad through it countless people have been given new strength . |
| 15 | To this original settlement pattern have been added new housing estates ( both local authority and company owned ) and ribbon development of privately owned deluxe housing . |
| 16 | We 've come to Jesus Christ , he 's forgiven us our sins , we 've been made new creatures , we are saved according to Athesians two eight . |
| 17 | Wordsworth 's power as a poet is seen in what he can do with such material , so that after reading Stepping Westward these commonplaces , while retaining universality , are made new for us . |
| 18 | And the number is not likely to reduce as the scope of spreads and as we 're offered new technologies , software technologies by vendors . |
| 19 | IBM insiders get their equipment cheaper than customers who are sold new computers , but the insiders depend on older machines — proving once again that it 's the management and training , not the technology , that makes the difference between a winning system and a white elephant . |
| 20 | MIDDLESBROUGH full back Jimmy Phillips and midfield player Mark Proctor have been offered new contracts . |
| 21 | ‘ If any man be in Christ , he is a new creature : old things are passed away ; behold , all things are become new . ’ |
| 22 | Over half of them ( 583 ) have been found new uses , often for the benefit of the wider community . |
| 23 | Many animals have since recovered and been found new homes by an animal welfare workers , some of whom were in court to listen to the evidence . |
| 24 | Peter Kemp , Durham County Council 's director of social services , said so far around 90 elderly people had been found new homes . |
| 25 | Mr Kemp said that so far around 90 elderly people had been found new homes most in other council-run establishments . |
| 26 | The means by which this is done is through the ‘ schemes of experience ’ , such as typifications , recipes , and other idealizations which members build up over time and into which are allotted new experiences and encounters , rendering the unknown into the known , the unfamiliar into the familiar . |
| 27 | Ms Willbourne also called for the civil courts to be given new powers to exclude an abuser from the home instead of the child . |
| 28 | EMPLOYERS ARE to be given new powers to isolate union members who take part in unofficial strikes through selective sackings . |
| 29 | Local authorities will be given new powers over a second tier of less heavily polluting processes , which will only be allowed to take place after councils have imposed stringent operating conditions . |
| 30 | The white Straker family had long disappeared , their genes and blood melded into the vigorous bodies of their freed slaves , and only the Straker name lived on to be given new dignity by Bonefish and his family . |