Example sentences of "old [coord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In certain transactions one might be requested to accept a root of title that is less than 15 years old or a document other than a mortgage , or a conveyance on sale as the root deed . |
| 2 | So far as the ceremonies of investiture were concerned , he himself had lived , and could live , with either the old or the new . |
| 3 | With this view , if the 80 year old or the 40 year old can pay for the surgery then it is offered . |
| 4 | It is clear that in both Australia and New Zealand there is a continuing ferment arising from conflicting support for the old or the new . |
| 5 | You ca n't say that males , females , the old or the young a are those who , who carry on their sexual role in a regular way , or those who do it in an irregular way have a privileged point of view . |
| 6 | It 's not that he 's 27 years old or an amateur boxer , but that he 's black . |
| 7 | There are two types of patentable invention , a product invention and a process invention , and it has been said that an invention is a new way of making something old or an old way of making something new . |
| 8 | Neither the old nor the new analogy is logically derived ; the former is rooted in habit , the latter emerges by a flash of insight . |
| 9 | But neither the old nor the new law provides tenure for the two lower academic grades . |
| 10 | I hate myself for being weak , and wish I were younger and stronger , but I 'm 68 years old and no match for them . |
| 11 | The tiny lady in purple looking after the money , 78 years old and no bigger than twopennorth of copper , was Jess Wilson who turned out to have been a British clay pigeon champion many years ago . |
| 12 | It seemed also that in justice Aunt Louise , being old and a visitor , should have the best place . |
| 13 | I could fancy her if she was n't so old and a teacher . |
| 14 | The roof , however , was only six years old and a structural analysis subsequently carried out by a structural engineer showed that not only was it impossible for that roof to slip , but furthermore it was twice as strong as the Building Regulations required . |
| 15 | Many of them believed that they were failing to find jobs because they were too old and a large number of the older respondents had become reconciled to the prospect of never working again . |
| 16 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 17 | Elizabeth and I turned on him severely , and told him that someone who was both old and a distinguished writer was not to be bothered with such things . |
| 18 | She was old and a snob . |
| 19 | Stefan Campeanu , forty years old and a leader of the Peasants ' Party , made his way home on foot to his apartment by his usual route , at his normal time . |
| 20 | Thus , an 80 year old and a 40 year old should have an equal chance of being offered cardiac surgery in equivalent circumstances . |
| 21 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 22 | He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience . |
| 23 | King , 27 years old and a Baptist minister , was a great orator and an inspiring leader . |
| 24 | I 'm 36 years old and a bricklayer by trade . |
| 25 | Randolph Fields was thirty-one years old and a barrister by profession . |
| 26 | In an unpublished manuscript , ‘ Ingredients of good , clear style ’ , Wilson comments as follows on the difference between an old and a revised version of the Bible in Dagbani : |
| 27 | She was about forty years old and a little fat . |
| 28 | Abdul Shahid , a Bengali-speaking five year old and a beginner in English , wanted to show off his three sand pies lined up in order of size . |
| 29 | She is very old and a bit soft in the head , you know ; my advice is to take this offer before she dies ! ’ |
| 30 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |