Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | And not even enough money to repair the old generator , that 's why we have oil lamps . |
| 2 | This new generation of NHS manager is , it seems , here to stay and brings with it a quality meter to measure our healthcare and a sledgehammer to dismantle the old order . |
| 3 | Waddell says the old man must have known it was daylight when they left , as the house lights were turned off by Waddell at dawn … |
| 4 | Malaysia is against our ideal , against our evolution , and against our State — our revolution is a confrontation to destroy the old order and build a new order in Indonesia and elsewhere . ’ |
| 5 | THE NEW TESTAMENT ENDORSES THE OLD |
| 6 | The two-month changeout programme to replace the old Spectra-Tek meters with a new Daniels 2508 flow measurement system started last month . |
| 7 | And yesterday their lawyer told the Old Bailey : ‘ It brought home to them the serious nature of what they had done . ’ |
| 8 | In fact President Mitterrand 's grandiose opera house ‘ modern and popular ’ was originally an idea of Vilar 's — an opera with immense auditoria to replace the old Palais Garnier . |
| 9 | Another feature of the river frontage includes the old lighthouse with the coastguard cottages adjoining , which was built in 1836 by Trinity House . |
| 10 | The old sitting room and scullery are now one big sitting roomand the old kitchen next door is now a hallway . |
| 11 | The earliest temple-sculpture we possess is not from a Doric temple but from an attempt to monumentalise the old form . |
| 12 | Any attempt to separate the old and the new is hopeless . |
| 13 | In India and Cyprus , the religious divide broke the old British territory in two . |
| 14 | ‘ Then Mait may be using tonight 's ceremony to reunite the Old One 's mind with the rest of it … . ’ |
| 15 | A decision to lay off 10% of the work force tells the old story of the drone worker . |
| 16 | Gerardo , a lawyer who has been named by the new president to investigate the old dictatorship 's abuses , invites Roberto , a sympathetic stranger , to spend the night . |
| 17 | But when it came to the first anecdote the tale of her son 's embarrassing performance in a school Nativity play the old professional skills suddenly shone through . |
| 18 | Under the country 's new Constitution introduced in April 1992 , a single President replaced the old Council of State which had served as a collective presidency . |
| 19 | The other , Turpins Tavern , is a new building replacing the old Cross Keys , and provides accommodation , food and entertainment — especially at weekends . |
| 20 | And even she had to admit that what she 'd seen the Prince show the old woman had seemed to be genuine respect and affection — |
| 21 | And it is because the new humanity is made up of free men and women that God wishes that all should be saved : his delay in invading the world and bringing an end to history is to allow time for the new humanity to supplant the old . |
| 22 | My route was from Red Hall to the Havelock pub using the old railway track , soon to be another noise and fume-filled racetrack , courtesy of Durham brains and Darlington apathy . |
| 23 | Now the gate piers lean at terrifying angles , overgrown with hawthorns , and cattle graze beneath the oaks and right up to the cellar windows of the south side of the house ; ivy smothers the old garden walls , and Burton on Trent in the valley below creeps nearer and nearer , an enormous and inevitable incoming tide , towards the steep little hill where Brizlincote Hall still stands high and proud . |
| 24 | The sun caught the old mullion windows on the eastern side and against the grey stone walls there was a riot of colour : late flowering fuchsias , michaelmas daisies . |
| 25 | In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread says the Old Testament ; salvation through hard work go the Protestant ethic and the rigidities of the New Right ; labour power , how nature is tamed and society transformed , argues Marxism . |
| 26 | Like the Carthusians she needed help to wed the old and new forms of spirituality so that her new contemplative vocation was not a painful dislocation from the past . |
| 27 | The major recommendation of the former came to fruition : the establishment of an enlarged Greater London Council to replace the old London County Council . |
| 28 | The new Act abolished the old method of arranging with creditors by a deed of composition , assignment or otherwise ‘ which has for so long a time disgraced our law ’ . |
| 29 | I was fired with his enthusiasm and on my reluctant return home ordered The Old Straight Track from the library . |
| 30 | Poor old Pengam Moors , the one-time Cardiff Airport which was originally known by the curious name of Splott , is also extinct and remembered only by a pub called The Old Airport . |