Example sentences of "new [noun] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 When he presented a new Kwik-Cricket set to the Barbadian Secretary of State for Education , the minister promptly moved desks , bookshelves and even delayed leaving for a cabinet meeting so that he could play the game in his office .
2 The lovely Llyn Brenig close to Cerrigydrudion , is a new reservoir set in a timeless landscape , where facilities exist for fishing , walking on the moors and bird watching .
3 At intervals of a few years , party congresses were held at which major changes of policy would be announced and new directions set for the future .
4 The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows .
5 — ITV plans to take on the BBC in the lunchtime ratings battle with a new soap set in a North-East seaside community .
6 Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) .
7 But so too have been the threats , for not all were able to respond adequately to the new standards set by the leaders .
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