Example sentences of "[prep] [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 2 | It was an apt time for the old dilemma of trying to forget where you were ( while being excited by the position ) and trying not to think about the uncertainties of the morrow ( while looking forward to them ) . |
| 3 | How can the erotic stirring for Aeneas be ‘ new ’ , when it is explicitly saturated with sentiment for the old , the dead , for ‘ Sicheus ’ ? |
| 4 | Real yearning for the old country . |
| 5 | Right to buy for the old to be extended |
| 6 | WASPS come to attention in the league tomorrow by calling for the old guard in an effort to repulse Gloucester 's rugged raiders at Sudbury . |
| 7 | Responsibility for the Old |
| 8 | It the maintenance of law and the management of delinquency are fundamental to any ordered society , responsibility for the old is scarcely less so . |
| 9 | The more I see of provision for the old , the more irresistibly a thought rises in my mind , which , however hesitantly , I will try to express . |
| 10 | I am conscious that I speak in parable ; but all that vast organisation and provision which must be made for the old in the coming generation will bring disappointment unless the purpose at the heart of it is one that satisfies . |
| 11 | The epigraph , ‘ A penny for the Old Guy ’ , stresses that Eliot 's poem relates to ceremonial effigies . |
| 12 | Such childish poeticizing is reinforced , in directing us to the level of the infant , by the ‘ penny for the Old Guy ’ epigraph , by the dressing up as a scarecrow , and by the nursery rhyme , ‘ Twinkle twinkle little star ’ , which inescapably underlies the line ‘ Under the twinkle of a fading star ’ . |
| 13 | Logan had done some of the designs for the old Biba department store in Kensington High Street and , when it closed down , he took all his work back to his flat . |
| 14 | Or even , Rachel wondered , ‘ You 've got to say this for the old girl , she does keep on trying . ’ |
| 15 | Maggie looked for the old damson tree by McCabe 's , the crab and wild cherry . |
| 16 | Second , the combined forces of civilized distaste gradually had an effect on the working-class élite whilst the actual times and spaces for the old sports both in town and country were ever more restricted . |
| 17 | The enthusiasm of the common people for the old sports was weakened to such an extent that there was a genuine receptiveness on the part of the mass of the population to the revised forms of play that were being nurtured amongst the privileged in the mid-Victorian public schools . |
| 18 | Stationed as a soldier in Shanghai , and unable to get home until the following April , Warnie was in an agony of sorrow for the old days . |
| 19 | Though their value is minimal compared with some of the treasures that pass through Tim 's hands , he has a particular affection for the old tins . |
| 20 | If the wrong circumstances arose , it was physically possible for the old wire to return to its old position . |
| 21 | A brave few are calling , quietly , for the old president to go . |
| 22 | Medicare — the American programme for the old — pays hospitals for each patient they treat . |
| 23 | T M LEWIN & SONS Trustworthy deep stripes for the old Rugbeian , £17.50 |
| 24 | Now , Eleanor Thorne was eighty-nine years old , and her conversation was erratic , but Dorothea still sat with her , and for the odd fifteen or twenty minutes , and sometimes as long as an hour , they would talk , as they had always done and the present world swung temporarily into focus for the old lady , and she held on to it , like a crystal ball , firmly in her hand . |
| 25 | Calling it ‘ one of the worst taxes ever created in the history of man ’ , the Duke appeared to speak for the old Conservative tradition . |
| 26 | However uncongenial for the old professors , the obsession with appointing businessmen to the boards of such things as the great museums and galleries undoubtedly had positive benefits in terms of efficiency and fund-raising for example . |
| 27 | But she knew perfectly well it was a foolish and misplaced sense of petty triumph for the old order had changed irrevocably . |
| 28 | Fourteen years later , on 19 May 1874 , in the City of London , the City Temple , the new name for the old Poultry Lane Congregational Chapel , opened the doors to its new home on Holborn Viaduct . |
| 29 | Testing times for the old safety net |
| 30 | Together they totalled less than 20 per cent , more than six per cent down on the votes for the old Communist Party , which took 26.6 per cent in the 1987 general election . |