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

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1 The government wants to set the new system to work from January 1 .
2 Together , both companies are trying to set a new standard for the more complex computing world of the 1990s : a jointly developed operating system called OS/2 .
3 Scottish Nuclear 's ‘ Follow That Dog ’ sweatshirt are about to set a new trend in Scottish fashion — and we 're giving five away in our special Bulletin competition .
4 Last year McCallen crashed out , leaving Robert to win , and Ian Newton to set a new lap record at 115.86 mph — but this time it should be a different story .
5 Foresters spokesman Raymond Bell of Newton Aycliffe , said members from around County Durham and Cleveland were hoping to set a new fundraising record .
6 At the same time , to set a New Testament canon beside the Old carried implications for the concept of ‘ inspiration ’ .
7 Disabled sportsman , Ian Hayden , to a rest from the golf course , to set a new world record in the shot putt .
8 On May 29 the government announced that the Political Parties Law had been amended to allow the INEC to set a new limit for individual contributions .
9 At Edinburgh I hope we can set the new membership negotiations in train .
10 The organisers are confident that this rigour will set a new standard for fairs in Italy , and hope , despite the world-wide economic gloom , to stimulate the Italian buying public , which has , even this year , remained active in the price-range up to £50,000 ( $100,000 ) .
11 Undaunted , Dick began to research paint and his finds will set a new course for warbirds with the latest in flat paint technique .
12 It will be introducing three fully integrated pre-loaded platforms it believes will set a new price/performance standard in the one-to-24 user Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix marketplace .
13 Michael Heseltine ( 1987 , p. 138 ) has since claimed that ‘ we set a new objective : to make the inner cities places where people would want to live and work and where the private investor would be willing to put his money ’ .
14 Instead , courts would in practice normally set a new payments schedule , allowing repossession ( or perhaps some form of money sanction instead ) if the new schedule was not kept up .
15 Amanda Tremble , who runs for North Shields Polytechnic , also set a new mark of 4 mins 42.1 secs in the intermediate girls 1500 metres , an improvement of six tenths of a second on Shirley Griffiths ' five-year-old record .
16 The 13 member countries also set a new target date of October 1991 for the implementation of a common external tariff ( CET ) on imports .
17 Christie 's meanwhile set a new auction price record for a stamp in its New York dispersal of the Weill Brothers ' stock .
18 The most memorable aspect of their doomed love was Henreid 's gallant — and erotic — way of lighting her cigarettes , which set a new fashion in flirtation .
19 Sheep entries set a new record , and topped 500 for the first time .
20 Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly .
21 Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’
22 In 1963 , Butler and Stokes began a series of surveys which set a new pattern , and a new standard , for the study of voting behaviour in Britain : their sample was large , nation-wide , and was interviewed several times between 1963 and 1970 ; and the authors were concerned to apply a rigour that had been absent from most of the earlier single constituency studies of electoral choice .
23 She really made Seles fight , in a hard-hitting baseline battle which at the same time surely set a new decibel record !
24 Novotna really made Seles fight in a hard-hitting battle that surely set a new decibel record !
25 Their arrest came only days after they set a new world record for cycling at altitude across the Himalayas .
26 Space Biospheres Ventures , the private firm that built and runs Biosphere 2 , said the bionauts set a new world record for living in a closed system .
27 The Mark 2 coaches inaugurated in 1966 had generally set a new standard of comfort with for example better heating and ventilation but there were no Mark 2 catering or sleeping cars .
28 But Kim Basinger has set a new standard by buying her own town .
29 Tony Blair , the shadow home secretary , has boldly set a new agenda , conceding the need for tough sentencing for persistent offenders .
30 Yesterday the it was n't yesterday , it was earlier on this week , the County Councillors set a new budget for Oxfordshire and they made ten million pounds worth of cuts .
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