Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the old [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A competition designed to replace the old final trial and one which is supposed to produce the national squad , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Designed to replace the old blue plates with their yellow numbers , the State 's Department of Motor Vehicles was proud of the fact that the new plates ‘ offer an almost infinite number of combinations ’ , but was nervous about where some of those combinations might lead them . |
| 3 | Symbolically , the Fomorians were thought to represent the old pagan beliefs that entailed human and animal sacrifices being submerged by a new age of enlightenment . |
| 4 | Beecher , the paterfamilias of the well known family , had been one of the major liberalizing influences in American Puritanism ( despite his rabid anti-Catholic feelings ) and had helped to transform the old High Calvinism into the broader stream of liberal protestantism . |
| 5 | From Drumbuie , a heathery moorland is crossed to join the old main road into Kyle , now superseded by another . |
| 6 | Shipton would have been saddened to see the old rotting tins and abandoned jerrycans that seemed to be typical of all military movement in this area . |
| 7 | He was allowed to drive the old red Ferguson tractor and one day we all crowded , laughing , aboard the trailer , to help the Isbisters bring home peat for winter fuel . |
| 8 | Railside Revival was developed to improve the old industrial sites bordering the railway through Darlington . |
| 9 | Likewise , Jean Monod 's inertial approach , for all its Gallic elegance , has failed to displace the old non-inertial guidance system of Handel and Barr — now quite forgotten . |