Example sentences of "[art] old [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association . |
| 2 | Being president of the Old Scholars ' Association was , he said , one of the great honours of his life , following , as it did , the equivalent presidency of another Quaker School , Polam Hall , Darlington , by his sister , Mrs Trixie Lyburn , in 1986/7 . |
| 3 | Other special services followed : The Reverend Wesley Gray brought the Dundonald Ladies ' Choir ; a team of nurses came from Lurgan and Portadown Hospital and a team of laymen came from Belfast : Thomas Street Old Boys ' Band and the Old Girls ' Association Choir came and one service was taken by Mr Donald Woodman BEM BA and the Portadown College School Choir . |
| 4 | The Women 's Fellowship organized various 1- and 2-day shops and the Old Boys ' Choir gave a concert . |
| 5 | The report says that the old boys ' network and prejudice are the main barriers to a woman 's career progress . |
| 6 | So the school continued , and the old boys ' magazine continued as well . |
| 7 | The first representative of the College was the Beyer Professor of Mathematics there , Horace Lamb , an Old Boy and first President of the Old Boys ' Association . |
| 8 | This proved to be an unsatisfactory arrangement , and with the help of the Old Boys ' Association a four-acre field in Adswood was purchased . |
| 9 | Spalding and Theakston designed this to fit in the Hallam Hall , the work was executed by Mr. J. L. Taylor , then woodwork master at the School , and the Old Boys ' Association paid for it . |
| 10 | But they will belong to the Sorcerers ’ Fellowship , and then there 's the Old Boys ' Academy of Wizardry — mind you , I like to go along to that myself . |
| 11 | Black was bitterly disappointed after a disastrous batting collapse threatened to ruin the old boys ' Schweppes debut . |
| 12 | And the pressure remained at the top : no access to the old boys ' clubs or men 's rooms for deal-making , and the constant reminder that ‘ if a man fails it 's because he 's inadequate , but if a female does it 's because of her sex . ’ |
| 13 | The visitors reduced the arrears with a try on twenty minutes scored by Colin Vynal and converted by Neil Smith , and right on the interval took the lead with another try , this time from skipper , Simon Grater erm again converted by Neil Smith following a mistake in the Old Boys ' defence . |
| 14 | Richard Chambers , a fine caver who had helped me photograph the Yordas Cave main chamber , Jeff Clegg and Matt Kirby of the Earby Mines Research Group and myself left the road near Gunnerside Lodge and clanked our way up the old miners ' path along the west side of Gunnerside Gill one damp late September evening . |
| 15 | Joanna had cheered up considerably by the time Sophie had finished , and Sophie 's spirits were still high as she drove out to visit the old ladies ' home . |
| 16 | There was the usual pub smell of stale tobacco but the river Thames laps against the old smugglers ' inn and its odours mingle with the rest . |
| 17 | From the 1740s North Cave was the meeting place for Quakers in the area , and Quaker Cottage on Church Street was built in 1892 on the site of the old Friends ' meeting house ; the cottage garden once was their burial ground . |
| 18 | Born in Silvertown , within sound of the old boat-builders ' yards , he disliked silence . |
| 19 | Breavman , the main character of his autobiographical novel The Favourite Came recollected his father singing the old soldiers ' song ‘ K-K-K-Katy … ’ ! |
| 20 | The badges of honour he sports on his veteran 's beret when he goes dining for the old soldiers ' vote gave his plea a sort of authority . |
| 21 | Another time when I was walking with Tony we paused for an hour at Malham to break a long day 's walk from Langcliffe to Arncliffe by Malham and Yew Cogar Scar by the old monks ' road . |
| 22 | As I walked past my contemporary ‘ transgressors ’ , cloaked in the anonymity of the backpack , I felt strangely more at one with the old lags ' displaced condition than with the multi-hued raincoated and umbrella-ed Glaswegian families queuing to go aboard the Waverley paddle steamer for their day ‘ doon the watter ’ to Rothesay . |
| 23 | The Old Loughtonians ' ground , in Chigwell , is one of eight regional qualifying venues for the re-jigged county championships and Woodward believes Essex are in with a great chance of winning through to Cannock . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | Ongoing counselling offered the opportunity to explore further areas ; regular reviews at the old peoples ' home are part of the necessary monitoring of the situation . |
| 30 | Why not try the old pals ' act , just the two of us together , it 'll be off the record ? |