Example sentences of "set a new [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Foresters spokesman Raymond Bell of Newton Aycliffe , said members from around County Durham and Cleveland were hoping to set a new fundraising record . |
5 | At the same time , to set a New Testament canon beside the Old carried implications for the concept of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
6 | Disabled sportsman , Ian Hayden , to a rest from the golf course , to set a new world record in the shot putt . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 ) . |
9 | Undaunted , Dick began to research paint and his finds will set a new course for warbirds with the latest in flat paint technique . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 ’ . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | The 13 member countries also set a new target date of October 1991 for the implementation of a common external tariff ( CET ) on imports . |
15 | Christie 's meanwhile set a new auction price record for a stamp in its New York dispersal of the Weill Brothers ' stock . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Sheep entries set a new record , and topped 500 for the first time . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | She really made Seles fight , in a hard-hitting baseline battle which at the same time surely set a new decibel record ! |
22 | Novotna really made Seles fight in a hard-hitting battle that surely set a new decibel record ! |
23 | Their arrest came only days after they set a new world record for cycling at altitude across the Himalayas . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | But Kim Basinger has set a new standard by buying her own town . |
27 | Tony Blair , the shadow home secretary , has boldly set a new agenda , conceding the need for tough sentencing for persistent offenders . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The outlook for sterling is clouded by confusion about whether the Chancellor has set a new floor for the pound . |
30 | I do n't think I think I have set a new Ashmore record . |