Example sentences of "[v-ing] new [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Services tailored for the frequent traveller to obtain an increasing share of the profitable business market became an important issue for the international hotel industy when utilising new card technology in security systems .
2 Although CDs are still to a large extent an instrument of liability management , such arbitrage has become increasingly important in driving new issuance recently .
3 Hence , there is a need to use some automated technique for rigorously incorporating new knowledge into the existing knowledge base .
4 A method must be devised of incorporating new dictionary material into the New OED which will ensure that it is structurally compatible with the existing data .
5 At the same time , there was pressing new business : the setting up of a provisional state in North Africa , preparation for its transfer back to France , supervision of the French war effort , and planning for postwar reconstruction .
6 The limitations on the effectiveness of patents in protecting new knowledge arise from the fact that patents disclose information which can enable imitators to invent around them .
7 Success is important and in a well organised school children succeed in gaining new knowledge and skills each day .
8 This growth has continued , notwithstanding the collapse of communism , interpreted by some short-sighted commentators as the ‘ death of socialism ’ , but indeed perhaps gaining new strength from that collapse , as I argued earlier ; and in the early 1990s not only were there active socialist governments in some countries , but socialists formed the largest , most influential group in the European Parliament .
9 Currently , however , biological control of plant , animal and viral pests is gaining new status as one component of integrated pest management strategies .
10 You learn as you give , gaining new insight into the lives and needs of poor communities .
11 Customers signing new life policies will have a longer cooling-off period of 14 days ( instead of 10 ) in which to cancel .
12 Seemingly , the only criterion adhered to by these ‘ starmakers ’ in signing new talent is not to upset the suits upstairs .
13 Morland can now go ahead with expansion plans , buying seventy pubs and signing new distribution deals for their beer .
14 Music publishing companies are always alert to the possibility of signing new songwriting talent .
15 It is difficult to assess whether or not unemployment and economic conditions were vital to the decline in the size of working-class families , or whether the prospect of purchasing new consumer goods conditioned the responses of the working classes .
16 After purchasing new stock in Paris he re-established his business in 1751 in the Strand , at the centre of the London map trade .
17 Most units were usually too busy to go to war : dispersed on training schemes , preparing for some grand parade , absorbing new equipment , training for a tour of Northern Ireland or retraining back from it .
18 One day Judge Raymond Dean was reminding us of the perils of ignoring men 's bestial nature-— ‘ Men ca n't turn their emotions on and off like a tap as some women can ’ ; the next , Prince Edward was vehemently denying his alleged homosexuality by expressing outrage that such an insult should be levelled at him ; meanwhile , on TV the Audi driver screeched to a halt at the hospital where — with toddler in arms — he managed narrowly to miss his second child 's birth , and Good Housekeeping boasted a curious advert showing New Man ( Audi safely in the garage ? ) in boxer shorts , cradling new baby , sitting on a German washing machine .
19 Such a rate of increase has not lasted , however ; 357 appeared in the 1987 issue of this guide , most of them representing new growth , but at a steadier rate .
20 Splicing new wood into a vertical section of frame may involve removing glass .
21 It is easy to undercoat locally , and replace putty and apply matching gloss paint , but delay painting new putty for a week or so .
22 Make sure the frame is dry , and prime bare wood before applying new putty .
23 As well as recording , developing and applying new processing facilities , such as graphics or word processing , within the framework of the personnel information system , the Group Personnel Information Services Department has a responsibility to advise on and co-ordinate developments to the Payroll/Personnel database itself .
24 Merseyside museums lead the way in applying new technology to stone conservation
25 It is hoped that international comparisons will throw further light upon the availability of alternative ways of applying new technology within the same sectors of activity .
26 In The Search , your students will identify with the fortunes of Peter , while consolidating new language .
27 As we will see later in this chapter , there is evidence that relating new information to earlier information is an important aspect of language comprehension .
28 This research aims to provide a clearer understanding of the problems of adopting new technology and the implications which this can have on training provisions for UK businesses .
29 Their reasons for adopting new technology will be examined and their demand for skilled labour or training policies to retrain existing employees will be quantified .
30 This situation was widely held to be responsible for Australia 's slowness in adopting new technology — automation in the motor industry was far less advanced than in western Europe — and for persistently low levels of labour productivity .
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