Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Universal state old age pensions were introduced by the Old Age Pensions Act of 1908 , workmen 's insurance in 1911 . |
| 7 | Whether all the villages were settled by the Old English is much more doubtful . |
| 8 | They were acquitted at the Old Bailey of making illegal exports , after saying the Government knew the company was doing business with Saddam Hussein . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Our lease was ending on the old building so we had to look for somewhere different , ’ says . |
| 16 | ‘ Sure , her … last I heard , she was living in the old family house in Illinois . |
| 17 | The reason for that is it was done on the old viewing system . |
| 18 | Bert shuffled back through the door into the boarded off section of the garage , followed by Yanto , who was frustrated by the old man 's slowness . |
| 19 | Sir John died in Tooting 5 June 1670 and was buried in the old church ; his will shows a debt due from the tsar and an amount still owed him for his allowance as ambassador . |
| 20 | He died at Shaftesbury on 12 November 1035 and was buried in the Old Minster Winchester . |
| 21 | The main difference between the ‘ new ’ and the ‘ old ’ series is that the weights of the new are derived from trade flows in manufactured goods rather than trade in all goods based on 1977 trade flows , which was used for the old index . |
| 22 | There was a delay , but at last it was opened by the old lady . |
| 23 | In 1764 Thomas Paine was posted to Alford to work in the Excise Office which was housed in the old Windmill Inn in the market place . |
| 24 | As Sara dialled the Kensington number of her stepfather 's house , she had a vision of the hall where the telephone table was , and she was invaded with the old feeling of inadequacy . |
| 25 | The event was prophesied in the Old Testament . |
| 26 | And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then . |
| 27 | The museum building itself was removed from Inchicore , Dublin , and was restructured from the old church of St. Jude , where many steam engineers worshipped and provides a most suitable for this unique and special collection . |
| 28 | The engine was reputed to have done 99,000 miles by the time it was extracted from the old Herald in 1988 , but Tony is sceptical . |
| 29 | An earnings means test was introduced for the old age pension , and the age of entitlement was raised in stages from 60 to 65 years . |
| 30 | It was settled by the Old English in compact villages such as Ashwell and Litlington , which were surrounded by large open fields . |