Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] old [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corn-milling is one of the oldest and most necessary human occupations . |
| 2 | Who better to achieve this for you than one of the oldest and most respected savings companies in Britain … with a proud record of profitable bonus payments to savers for every year since 1824 ! |
| 3 | The rock is actually quarrying residue in one of the oldest and most productive areas of Cotswold quarrying of the Jurassic limestone belt which has produced building stone since the reign of Edward III . |
| 4 | It is certainly one of the oldest and most popular of the Yorkshire fell races . |
| 5 | One of the oldest and most useful , as well as attractive knitting patterns is the cable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | IT IS one of the oldest and most famous hospitals in the world but if the Government follows the recommendations in the Tomlinson report , St Bartholomew 's in London will soon close . |
| 9 | THE Peony ( Paeonia , right ) is one of the oldest and most beautiful plants . |
| 10 | Tor Yvresse itself is one of the oldest and most beautiful of all Elf settlements but its time of glory is long past . |
| 11 | The Knights Panther is one of the oldest and most respected of the Knightly Orders , tracing its origins back to the times of the Crusades against Araby . |
| 12 | Modern technology and international publicity and acclaim simply confirm one of the oldest and most widely-distributed suspicions on the African continent , that the foreign usurper lives literally , as well as metaphorically , by sucking the life-blood of his black subjects . |
| 13 | ‘ Refined and genteel , one of the oldest and most fashionable resorts of the Tuscan coast — a sophisticated classic . ’ |
| 14 | One of the oldest and most fashionable resorts on the Tuscany Coast , Forte dei Marmi still maintains the atmosphere of a sophisticated , residential community . |
| 15 | In relation to Jesus , popular tradition has imposed upon him one of the oldest and most archetypal of functions — that of the eternal adversary , the dark opposite , the embodiment of all the vices and iniquities that the hero is not . |
| 16 | Listed as one of the world 's finest hotels , and in a beautiful position overlooking the Chao Phya River , the Oriental is one of the oldest and most famous hotels in the East . |
| 17 | Tree-of-life designs ( pls. 5 , 17 , 20 , 30 ) are based on one of the oldest and most universal of all religious and mythological symbols , pre-dating both Islam and Christianity . |
| 18 | The mining and marine transport of coal created a distinctive capitalist class and one of the oldest and most organized working classes in the world . |
| 19 | In 1991 the Conservative government proposed to privatise one of the oldest and most respected of the inspectorates — Her Majesty 's Inspectors of Schools . |
| 20 | And blinked and looked again , for the felling of living Trees , the cutting and slicing and mutilating of Trees which had not died and dried and seasoned naturally , was one of the oldest and most strictly forbidden practices in Ireland . |
| 21 | But the shock is nothing to their profound distaste at the circular photocopy letter telling me it was NO — not even signed and not even on a sheet of proper printed letterhead — for a job marketing one of the oldest and most prestigious and national professional bodies ! |
| 22 | Sanskrit is the language of classical India , one of the oldest and most significant of the civilisations of the world . |
| 23 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar , which was where Mahmoud was taking them , was one of the oldest and most traditional of the bazaars . |
| 24 | The Tawneys ( ancestors of the great historian R. H. Tawney ) were one of the oldest and most successful families in the community , for they married into the brewers who dominated eighteenth-century Oxford . |
| 25 | At the age of thirty , with 31 tests behind him Russell will be one of the oldest and most experienced players in the England side , but he thinks the selectors have chosen well . |
| 26 | It is a real mountain town , though for all its remoteness one of the oldest and best patronized of the Pyrenean spas , once , as I have said , managed by the monks of Saint-Savin . |
| 27 | The Royal Bank of Scotland is one of the oldest and best respected financial institutions in Britain , with its ancestry dating back to 1727 . |
| 28 | The department has the advantage of being one of the oldest and therefore best supported in the country . |
| 29 | It is one of the oldest and possibly purest breeds in Britain . |
| 30 | Whilst TechDoc is certainly one of the older and more established of these compartments it is undergoing rapid change as the vendors break away from the dedicated hardware platforms of their recent past . |