Example sentences of "be a new [noun sg] on " in BNC.

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1 One sign of its international impact has been a new willingness on the part of the Soviet Union , not traditionally regarded as an environmentally sensitive nation , to follow whatever lead the British set in getting rid of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) .
2 There is to be a new register on which the general election could be fought .
3 One possibility could be a new convention on climate , a proposal which is strongly supported by the British Government .
4 There is no reason to believe ( and here he is surely absolutely right ) that will be a new deal on Palestine which will seriously answer Palestinian claims .
5 There 's a new there 's a new thing on
6 Margrove , the South Cleveland Heritage Centre is a new facility on the edge of the National Park .
7 The appointment of McDonald , who was still an interviewer with Trinidadian TV when News At Ten first went on the air , fits in with what sources suggest is a new reliance on star names .
8 THERE IS a new attraction on the tourist circuit in the US — the nuclear power station at Three Mile Island .
9 It is a new accent on the day .
10 Well anyway that is a new item on the recycling directory
11 The new monograph has been written by Helmut Leppien , curator at the museum and is published in conjunction with the Hamburger Kunsthalle , as is a new book on Max Beckmann by Uwe M. Schneede , the Kunsthalle 's director ( DM28 ) .
12 It was a new slant on the eternal problem of the one who kisses and the one who is kissed .
13 The other important factor was a new drug on the streets .
14 Masturbation did not become respectable , but there was a new stress on its ability to rob adolescence of real fulfilment , and this was even echoed in the work of sex reformers such as Havelock Ellis and expressed in G. Stanley Hall 's two volumes on adolescence .
15 In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense .
16 In Scotland , East Kilbride ( 1947 ) was a New Town on the London model , as an overspill centre for Glasgow , but Glenrothes ( 1948 ) had a function akin to Peterlee , as a collector point for the East Fife coalfield , on the lines advocated in the Regional Plan for Central and South-east Scotland ( Mears , 1948 ) .
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