Example sentences of "new [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way they are seen by others as having authority and they gain a new measure of confidence in dealing with matters on your behalf . |
| 2 | Vet prize money is a long overdue development , likely to add a new measure of excitement to the sharp end of the field . |
| 3 | For our purposes a new measure was developed , based on the principles of the ACER Speed and Accuracy Test ( Australian Council for Educational Research , 1962 ) designed to predict office skills and visual awareness . |
| 4 | He showed severe left neglect on the conventional measures of line bisection and line cancellation , and in a new measure ; when asked to detect the presence or absence of a small crack on either side of two-dimensional block shapes , he detected the crack for 37/40 shapes with a crack on the right , but for only 5/40 shapes with a crack on the left . |
| 5 | In the form in which the proposals on community service appeared in the Bill they owed something also to the Government 's hope that the new measure would be seen as a credible alternative to custodial sentences , thus contributing towards the aim of bringing down the prison population . |
| 6 | The recent launch of National Vocational Qualifications for site managers and supervisors has provided an important new measure of competence at the actual work-face . |
| 7 | And we 've also extended the , the , as a new measure , the water supply along the side of the football and rugby pitches so that Don can water the goalmouths erm of both the goal , of both the football and the rugby pitches , which is a considerable improvement . |
| 8 | NEW MEASURE : Chief Superintendent David baker , who hit out at thugs behind the street violence that spoiled the recent carnival warm-up and ( inset ) carnival organiser Tex Flint |
| 9 | The project involves the re-analysis of existing data sets , using the new measure and testing for stronger relationships than originally found . |
| 10 | Passage of the new measure ( which had already been approved by the Senate in September 1989 ) precipitated an unprecedented constitutional crisis because of King Baudouin 's refusal to give it the royal assent . |
| 11 | New budget proposals were discussed in the House and Senate on Oct. 8 , and a new measure to provide temporary financing for government until Oct. 20 was passed in the House by 305 votes to 105 . |
| 12 | This is a relatively new measure of money supply , first introduced in 1982 . |
| 13 | The ISE 's Special Committee on Market Development recommended in July 1990 that the Alpha , Beta and Gamma classifications on SEAQ should be replaced with a new measure called Normal Market Size ( NMS ) which is calculated by the stock 's liquidity and trading volume . |
| 14 | A new settlement is going to be needed . |
| 15 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 16 | CHRIS PATTEN , the Secretary of State for the Environment , summed up the house-building dilemma when delivering his ( provisionally negative ) judgement on the proposed building of Foxley Wood , a ‘ new settlement ’ on the borders of Berkshire and Hampshire . |
| 17 | Last week , Andrew Hugh Smith , chairman of the Exchange , announced the appointment of Sir Geoffrey Littler as head of the Clearing House Formation Committee , which is charged with developing the proposals for the new settlement system . |
| 18 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
| 19 | Behind it is a raw new settlement , plots of land demarcated by barbed wire . |
| 20 | The changes were carried into the Companies Act 1989 and are now known as the ‘ New Settlement ’ . |
| 21 | There are three tiers to this new settlement . |
| 22 | Since the early 1960s it has undergone a transformation as great as that of the nineteenth century and has become a new settlement with virtually no connection with agriculture or coal . |
| 23 | At Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire an entirely new settlement mainly composed of inns , grew up at the point in the parish where the Holyhead road left the Roman Watling Street and struck north-west towards Daventry . |
| 24 | The new settlement acquired a separate name , Road Weedon . |
| 25 | He was speaking of the area around Northfield Lane , north of Oakwood , which was a new settlement concern within the buildings themselves . |
| 26 | But you know perfectly well that I support the new settlement strategy , and therefore in consequence I do support erm general limitations on the growth of settlements and expansion of settlements within the greenbelt . |
| 27 | They had walked the perimeter his men had already marked out in preparation for the stockade he planned around the new settlement ; the deputies had taken this in , uttering cries among themselves at the tools his men handled . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , therefore , constitutional authorities eager for change have pondered long and hard , not so much on how to introduce a Bill of Rights or a restraining written constitution ( that , after all , could be effected by a simple Commons majority backed by the usual formality of assent by Crown and Lords ) but on how to ensure that such a new settlement sticks and lies safe beyond the repealing vote of yet another simple Commons majority . |
| 29 | I am pleased that , in the new settlement that has just been announced , we have secured an extra £9 million of capital funding for the higher education institutions . |
| 30 | Sharon formally launched a new settlement , Kanaf , in the southern Golan Heights on May 21 . |