Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , question ( 4 ) referred to the court in Case C 221/89 is concerned with the fact that the Act of 1988 also applies to fishing vessels which were registered in the old register but , because they do not satisfy all the new requirements , in principle ceased to be registered on 31 March 1989 . |
| 2 | In addition , the new version of the model must include all of the states which were included in the old version ( ie. states can not be deleted ) , otherwise module instances would be left in limbo . |
| 3 | You were caught by an old trick — the oldest in the book . |
| 4 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 5 | Fry 's chocolates were made in the old centre of the city but as the business expanded they needed a large space for a modern factory and also easy ways of distributing the goods . |
| 6 | Father Reynard had said that the corpses of the young woman and her companion were buried beneath an old elm tree . |
| 7 | Private benefactors enabled the school to build two new dormitories , while thirty of the youngest children were accommodated in an old farmhouse . |
| 8 | His face was young , but his shoulders were bent like an old man 's and his head was pushed forward . |
| 9 | This situation bears an uncomfortably close resemblance to the picture which obtained before the 1981 Act when children were assessed under the old SE procedures as in need of special educational provision . |
| 10 | Universal state old age pensions were introduced by the Old Age Pensions Act of 1908 , workmen 's insurance in 1911 . |
| 11 | Whether all the villages were settled by the Old English is much more doubtful . |
| 12 | They were acquitted at the Old Bailey of making illegal exports , after saying the Government knew the company was doing business with Saddam Hussein . |
| 13 | Three former executives of the company were acquitted at the Old Bailey in November of illegally trying to export arms-making equipment to Iraq amid accusations that Government ministers encouraged manufacturers to emphasise the peaceful uses of their products when seeking export licences . |
| 14 | The full details did not emerge until the court case eighteen months later , when three men — brothers Sebastian and Brent Clarke , owners of Atra Records , and Dennis Bartholomew — were acquitted at the Old Bailey of charges of blackmail and assault with intent to rob . |
| 15 | The Bosnians were taken to the old terminal , on a little used part of the airport , and then transferred by coach to centres in Surrey , West London and a new centre in Dewsbury , Yorkshire , which took 60 from the latest flight . |
| 16 | Lily and the boy were standing by an old iron playhorse which had once been painted dark green but now was blotched with rust . |
| 17 | Kim 's years as a dissident meant that he remained unpopular with many of those DLP members who were associated with the old ruling DJP.Moreover , as the DLP 's executive chairman and the chief architect of the its March 1992 general election campaign , Kim was also extensively blamed for the party 's poor showing . |
| 18 | FOUR men , two from Belfast , accused of conspiracy to murder a drug-dealer and a police informant were cleared at the Old Bailey after the prosecution dropped the case following a six-week trial costing nearly £1m . |
| 19 | It was situated in an old house , a three-storey building which the students and others had the run of , more or less . |
| 20 | Bath Street , which he was building in the old centre after 1791 , is probably his finest work , with sweeping quadrant arms and a covered promenade of Ionic columns . |
| 21 | His front leg was paralysed from an old road accident , our vet guessed the owners had abandoned her rather than pay for the amputation . |
| 22 | A JUROR miffed that his £1.20 travelling expenses were not being paid was sacked from an Old Bailey case yesterday . |
| 23 | ‘ Our lease was ending on the old building so we had to look for somewhere different , ’ says . |
| 24 | The place was owned by an old ship 's captain . |
| 25 | The schoolmistress did not live in the School House , which was occupied by an old grannie , who every day called me to come and talk to her when she was out in her small garden , or in the cottage when the weather was less promising . |
| 26 | ‘ Sure , her … last I heard , she was living in the old family house in Illinois . |
| 27 | The latter was done on an old cooker which was based on the storage principle . |
| 28 | The reason for that is it was done on the old viewing system . |
| 29 | Tim was looking through an old photograph album she 'd put out , with pictures of previous Christmases . |
| 30 | I had half-managed to con a colleague in the Press-box into believing that the Brewongle Stand was named after an old left-arm spinner from Parramatta named Bluey Brewongle when I saw the dark-green uniforms emerging from the pavilion , and the emotions crowded in with a sudden impact . |