Example sentences of "[art] old wife ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think chiefly of novels : all Hardy , Adam Bede , Tristram Shandy , The Newcomes , Henry Esmond , The Old Wives ' Tale , Sentimental Education and many others , but every sort of reading was happiness . |
| 2 | The Old Wives ' Tale ‘ Do n't lean below 5,000 feet ’ resulted from the fact that above 5,000 feet , full throttle at red-line rpm gives less than 75 per cent of rated power , therefore one can lean . |
| 3 | While we are on this subject , it may be remarked that even social workers sometimes give credence to one or another of the old wives ' tales which surround pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 4 | Experts have exploded the old wives ' myth that , if he decided to play away , there must have been something wrong with the relationship in the first place . |
| 5 | Many a town centre was like the Square in Arnold Bennett 's description of ‘ Bursley ’ in The Old Wives ' Tale , i.e. a self-conscious commercial area which scorned the staple manufacture in the streets beyond as ‘ something wholesale , vulgar , and assuredly filthy ’ . |
| 6 | I think it 's an old wives ' tale that make-up ruins the skin . |
| 7 | It 's an old wives ' tale that make-up ruins the skin |
| 8 | An old wives ' tale ? |
| 9 | That 's only an old wives ' tale . |