Example sentences of "[coord] old [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no English churches named after the old boy , or old boys as it happens . |
| 2 | The upper classes at Key Stage 2 when asked how they know can begin to make reference to census records , or old maps or photographs to " prove " the truth of what they claim . |
| 3 | Wear overalls or old clothes , and carry a piece of rag . |
| 4 | Protect the roots of half-hardy evergreens in tubs from the cold by wrapping newspaper , straw or old clothes around the tubs . |
| 5 | But apart from the number of police rapidly increasing , their technological and quasi-military capacities shamelessly strengthened , their discretionary powers of apprehension , interrogation , detention , and arrest liberally extended , and new prisons built or old ones extensively refurbished ( all with money the government claims the country has not got to maintain existing standards of education , health , unemployment welfare , and social services ) , nothing much justifies the optimism . |
| 6 | The glaistig will occasionally assume the appearance of a kind BROWNIE , showing benign tenderness to children or old women and helping farmers to tend their cattle . |
| 7 | Fortunately babuskas , or old ladies , were at every stop selling paper cones full of fresh berries and currants for one rouble . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't like the conversation of children or old ladies , ’ he murmured to me . |
| 9 | But he certainly was n't going to encourage her to indulge in nerves or old memories . |
| 10 | They are often hung between trees or old posts a long way apart , and they are extremely difficult to see . |
| 11 | It is also likely that interviews will generate further material ( old photographs , or old objects ) , which may be loaned to the school for the duration of the project . |
| 12 | Supporting this work are the government 's Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and the US Air Force , which are responsible for cleaning up poisoned communities like love canal , or old plants that once made the herbicide Agent Orange . |
| 13 | As a rule they are only killed for food ( and then only cocks or old hens ) when an important visitor comes to the homestead , perhaps a prince 's son or perhaps a father-in-law . |
| 14 | Even after many of the separate grants were amalgamated in 1958 into a single general grant , government continued to expand its financial support quite rapidly to make it possible for local councils to fulfil the pledges which national parties frequently gave in general elections — to replace slums or old schools , to reduce the size of classes , and much else . |
| 15 | So that little old ladies who are , decide , or old gentlemen for that matter , want to try and live in the community , and then , they stick that on their bill . |
| 16 | And one of the things that archaeologists do all their time is try by looking at the evidence , whether it 's stuff that comes from the ground , landscapes or old buildings , to try and understand the changes that have happened through time , to see things that were there that have gone , and to work out what |
| 17 | He believed that reality was best approached through work or its cessation , whether in the shape of miners in the Borinage , labourers digging streets in The Hague , the poor waiting submissively in long lines in soup kitchens , or old men in broken top hats walking through the gates of almshouses . |
| 18 | An unarmed cleric must not be harmed ; but no more should women , children or old men , and even students travelling to their place of study should not be molested or put to ransom . |
| 19 | When carrying out interviews , artefacts or old photographs can sometimes provide useful stimulus . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) In other words , although farm modernisation policies have actively encouraged non-viable or older farmers to retire from farming , many in the poorer areas have not done so , living on in a traditional way for extremely low returns . |
| 21 | But the fact that Aquitanian hoards contain no foreign or older coins suggests the maintenance of some form of royal control . |
| 22 | In the south they together form the Swarte Bank High , a broad zone of strong block-faulting where thick Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary section overlies strongly eroded Permian or older strata . |
| 23 | She must have been noticed as being very different from the local ladies who were either young girls dressed tidily but poorly , or older women in black . |
| 24 | It is generally assumed that it is not cost-effective to screen either younger or older women , but the achievements of any screening in this area are unclear . |
| 25 | Prague , Budapest and Berlin Various combinations by air or coach with special arrangements in all the countries concerned for student or older groups to plan their own programmes ( min 10 ) . |
| 26 | In addition , declaration forms were missing in some cases in the departmental libraries , or older forms had been torn off and replaced by new forms when full rather than being retained , thus losing the evidential value of the forms . |
| 27 | For manipulations on 9th day or older embryos , which have to be done in a Petri dish it is necessary to introduce two bends over a microburner , similar to those described for solid needles ( Table 13 ) , although the exact angle of the bends will depend on how the micromanipulator is set up ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 28 | Many , of course , had brothers or older friends in the Rowdies group and had already had some experience of ‘ hanging around ’ with them in other social arenas away from the terraces . |
| 29 | As they operate under school regulations they can not admit part-time or older students . |
| 30 | They were exactly the sort you 'd expect to see at this kind of activity : mostly middle-aged or older Americans or Germans in running shoes , with a few earnest Guardian readers thrown in for local colour . |