Example sentences of "old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it looked grubby , collapsed and marked like a very old deck of cards . |
| 2 | He sat in an old deck chair and the two girls sat on the ground , each leaning against one of his legs . |
| 3 | The emergence of the so-called ‘ new narrative ’ presupposes the existence of an ‘ old narrative ’ which it superseded and , in effect , the early 1940s may be regarded as a watershed . |
| 4 | Croan is lost deep in old woodland which feels strange and haunted and is always dark . |
| 5 | The pollarded trees you see in old woodland and hedgerow are clear evidence that they were once part of boundaries formed to enclose stock as well , maybe , as parish boundaries . |
| 6 | In order to make use of the wood , the trust has revived some of the old woodland skills in an innovative way . |
| 7 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 8 | She brings us to a town where the sky is full of burning , the old synagogue about to be engulfed ; white doves wheel round the rooftops , beat their wings , drive off the flames . |
| 9 | In 1959 , when he was still only 21 , Lagerfeld was made artistic director of the venerable , if slightly creaking old couture house of Patou . |
| 10 | The fire probably started in a rubbish dump , above an old strip mine a few miles east of the town , in May 1962 . |
| 11 | No one but an old Londoner who has been born and bred and has lived for 50 to 60 years in London can have any idea of the extent of the change . |
| 12 | At that stage Canterbury had just equalled the old defence record of 25 , set by Auckland in 1960–63 . |
| 13 | I even came across one stretch of the old defence works which has had a rugby pitch squeezed into it , with a glacis for a touch line . |
| 14 | What 's new is that the old defence , that a director did not ‘ knowingly or willingly ’ allow something to happen has been eroded and , Bell said , ‘ directors will have to show specifically and beyond a shadow of doubt they could not know what was happening or that they had minuted their protest ’ . |
| 15 | The leaders of the British jazz-funk explosion in the early '80s had ten hit albums in their 11 years with Polydor and their old contract still had another six albums to run . |
| 16 | Deputising services undertook relatively fewer visits in 1990–1 — at 28% , the proportion was down from 46% in 1989–90 , the last year of the old contract . |
| 17 | The old contract between the customer and the vendor is extinguished . |
| 18 | In a novation the old contract is extinguished and the old obligations are assumed in a new contract . |
| 19 | ‘ We tried for the best part of 18 months to get Dowty to agree to a friendly deal , but both the old chairman , Lord Harrowby , and the new chairman , Roy Roberts , refused . |
| 20 | At a special ceremony Magnus Magnusson presented the £1000 award to the group 's 81 year old chairman George Campbell . |
| 21 | The sixty seven year old chairman of Thames water is said to be depressed after he was diagnosed as having Parkinsons disease . |
| 22 | The old chairman still worries about them , about the continued fight for survival . |
| 23 | You might suspect that , so far , this is the old technique of flattery before flattening . |
| 24 | The old technique of raising the kundalini is , in essence , allowing energies to well up the spine through all the chakras without obstruction . |
| 25 | There is always the old technique of adjusting bridle length with an overhand hitch to shorten the line ; but for sport kites , the knot itself takes up a lot of line . |
| 26 | The coloured transparent stones could all be shown off by using the old technique of rubbing and polishing . |
| 27 | They realized that the old technique of depending upon the trained observer 's overall impression to characterize the natural vegetation of an area was unreliable . |
| 28 | We were n't far away from the ruins of an old settlement , abandoned at the time of the dreadful Clearances by islanders who , driven by impossible conditions , bravely set out for the unknown territories of Canada to start their lives afresh . |
| 29 | This is a very old settlement , as its two sentinel towers of medieval period suggest . |
| 30 | Novgorod ( new town ) was , despite its name , an old settlement which , by the tenth century , had become an important trade centre . |