Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Calvin wrote : ‘ Cardiff Arms Park is as much a relic of former glory as the pithead wheel of an old mine ’ ! |
| 2 | ‘ I hope you did n't mind , ’ said Lesley Paviour blithely , swinging the wheel of the old Morris nonchalantly as they negotiated the sharp turn by the downstream bend of the Comer , not very far from where Gerry Boden 's body had been towed ashore . |
| 3 | The noise of the van receded and Forester expected its place to be taken by the measured squeak and clank of the old machine , a sound that he 'd so far heard only through still air at a distance . |
| 4 | The question did not arise for those settling in their state 's colonies , who could continue to remain Englishmen or Frenchmen in New Zealand or Algeria , thinking of the old country as ‘ home ’ . |
| 5 | And even that seemed a but thinking of the old tramp and he was in a a sort of all belaggered looking way . |
| 6 | The auditorium of the old Empire Theatre is being completely redesigned and refurbished to provide a modern opera house , comparable to Covent Garden . |
| 7 | Everything was different : hardly a landmark of the old parish would have remained . |
| 8 | There was the final episode of The Old Devils — bravo ! superb ! |
| 9 | ‘ Greater London ’ , as those parts that lay beyond the ring of the old county boundary became known , grew from about 414,000 inhabitants in 1861 to 1,405,000 in 1831 and to 2,045,000 at the turn of the century . |
| 10 | Few imagined at this stage the scale and speed of the German victories which overwhelmed western Europe in the spring and early summer , culminating in such a comprehensive defeat of the old enemy , the French , in June , and prompting the toadying Field Marshal Keitel to declare that Hitler 's strategic brilliance in preparing the campaign made him ‘ the greatest military commander of all time ’ . |
| 11 | Not unreasonably , given what had happened in 1984 , Lady Thatcher had forsaken the Grand for the Hospitality Inn on the recommendation of an old ally , Sir Alfred Sherman , who had praised the pool , solarium , gymnasium and beauty salon . |
| 12 | ‘ A wet football of the old type was like getting a brick on your head , ’ says Ove Sortland , Professor of Radiology at Ulleval Hospital and co-author of the report . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , he was prominent in the Scottish History Society , and a founder and president of the Old Edinburgh Club . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Besides honeymooning in deepest China ( off the traditional tourist route ) she still helps to organise the modern pentathlon ( run-swimshoot-horseride-fence ) Varsity matches as President of the Old Blues Association . |
| 18 | Mariano Fiallos , president of the old Council , was re-elected to the post . |
| 19 | The inauguration ceremony took place in October , when the President of the Old Stopfordians , Mr. J. 5 . |
| 20 | He was a Governor during the 1920s , and President of the Old Stopfordians during their 50th Anniversary year . |
| 21 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 22 | Already the collapse of the old East German regime has resulted in some unlikely new uses for former government property . |
| 23 | This war has to be explained in terms of the collapse of the old order — not simply in the sense that the United States was left as the only superpower , but in the more profound sense that the collapse of the old order has far-reaching consequences for American society and politics , that this war is a defensive reaction to the deep disturbance caused by the end of the cold war . |
| 24 | This war has to be explained in terms of the collapse of the old order — not simply in the sense that the United States was left as the only superpower , but in the more profound sense that the collapse of the old order has far-reaching consequences for American society and politics , that this war is a defensive reaction to the deep disturbance caused by the end of the cold war . |
| 25 | The obscure circumstances of the collapse of the old culture involved invasion , or infiltration , by further Greek-speaking tribes ; and it is with their assimilation that the new world begins . |
| 26 | has stayed at Grimsby throughout , becoming assistant manager , and in 1968 , after the closure of the old floor maltings , took over as manager . |
| 27 | A major consideration in 1983 was to fill the void left by the closure of the old dockyard . |
| 28 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 29 | At the mention of the old man 's name , Beth 's hackles rose . |
| 30 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |