Example sentences of "[art] old and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deciding on quantities of food can be difficult but following the old and well tried method of restricting the quantity to an amount which will be snapped up in a couple of minutes works very well . |
| 2 | Only 4 miles from Blore is the old and very pretty market town of Ashbourne which boasts a cobbled square and magnificent 14th-century church . |
| 3 | Gorfang has subjugated most of the local Orc tribes but his neighbours are the Night Goblins of Karak Eight Peaks whose leader is the old and infamously cunning Skarsnik . |
| 4 | With the destruction of state socialism in Hungary , the old and relatively comfortable set-up in which officially approved writers could have access to funds , however limited , via the Writers ' Union , will come to an end , since the Union itself will no longer have any official funding . |
| 5 | Rothwell ( 1982 ) , who also points to regional variations in the production of innovations , explains it not in terms of different local levels of entrepreneurship but in terms of the regional bias of R&D expenditure towards the South East , the older and more traditional technology structure of some northern regions , the unequal availability of venture capital between regions and the local planning environment for small firms . |
| 6 | The older and more knowledgeable horseman knew exactly what had happened and took immediate steps to neutralize this smell . |
| 7 | Here a door opened into the older and more modest side of the house , the side where , in stages of inferiority , less important guests , children and , in a still more distant wing , servants slept . |
| 8 | They came out into the corridor together , Rostov holding back as he allowed the older and more senior man to go before him . |
| 9 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 10 | The oldest and most worn-out woodcut , representing King Pippin , Two Shoes , or the grim Soldan , sitting with three staring blots for his eyes and mouth , his sceptre in one hand , and his five fingers raised and spread in admiration at the feats of the Gallant London Apprentice , can not excite in me a feeling of ingratitude . |
| 11 | Edward was not a great reader but he knew quite well that he was broaching the oldest and most central concern of literature ; he felt appropriately diffident . |
| 12 | It was built for a rich banker in the early sixteenth-century but is more renowned as the home of the Societa del Giardino , the oldest and most prestigious club in Milan which has used the palazzo since 1818 . |
| 13 | Chancery was the oldest and most solemn part of the whole apparatus . |
| 14 | At the oldest and most ruined building , they stopped and Mr Bumble took out his piece of paper . |
| 15 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 16 | James Capel ( ) , one of the oldest and most respected stockbroking firms in the UK , was founded in 1775 shortly after the London Stock Exchange was established . |
| 17 | Francis Newton was to found the firm Cossart Gordon & Co , which is one of the oldest and most respected madeira wine merchants and is today incorporated in the Madeira Wine Company Lda . |
| 18 | Elves are the oldest and most civilised race on the known world . |
| 19 | She could quite see Aunt Tossie unpicking the oldest and least favoured work and starting the canvas over again . |
| 20 | In 20 minutes by air-conditioned car or coach , you will be in an old and vastly different world . |
| 21 | It helps if you can bring yourself to take a very positive line of thinking about each problem as it comes along , being as practical and objective as possible , for sometimes the limitations of home life with an old and possibly infirm parent may seem to close round you like a prison . |
| 22 | The other three looked at her as though she had spoken in an old and now unknown language . |
| 23 | Listening to the debate which followed the papers in this session , one was struck by the persistence of an older and more fundamental truth . |
| 24 | It had been painted in 1876 and showed an older and more ethereal poet , his head rising , as is common with Watts 's portraits , from a vague dark column of a body into a spiritual light . |
| 25 | Most people who made the pilgrimage found it well worth their while , not only for the quality of the music-making but also for a quality of staging and design that pointedly bypassed the often musically ruinous fads of post-war directors ' opera in order to re-establish contact with an older and still valid tradition that goes back , with a passing glance at the work of Wieland Wagner , through Gründgens and Reinhardt to Roller and Mahler and , in some respects , Wagner himself . |