Example sentences of "old part [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel stands right in the middle of the village , where the old part of the building has been the centre of village life for hundreds of years . |
| 2 | The old part of the village , where the church stands , is down by the heel , or hoof of clorin . |
| 3 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 4 | As well as adding to the old part of the story , the continuators brought it up to date till the death of Geoffrey le Bel , occasionally slipping into detailed narrative of events : there is a long and useful excursus on the politics of 1118 . |
| 5 | Fighting centred on the main barracks , the Balboa port section of Panama City , close to the main bridge leading over the canal , and in the old part of the capital , which is a maze of slums and anti-military feeling . |
| 6 | ‘ When our two wee ones came along , we had to have the ixtra room , but I prefer the old part of the house . |
| 7 | Meanwhile back on the ward , Doctor Beri 's bleep goes again … this time it 's a call to casualty … and the weary house physician has to run half a mile from one end of the building to the other … along the new corridor linking the old part of the hospital with the new.By the end of the morning , he 's covered six miles … one day recently he covered eighteen miles : |
| 8 | The old part of the town is home to one of the most famous Venetian harbour promenades in Greece and the modern town is notable for its busy indoor market , and the only one in Crete . |
| 9 | The old part of the town lay half a mile away in a shallow bowl , through which meandered the river that gave the town its name . |
| 10 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |
| 11 | She 'd booked in to a hotel on the Place Gambetta , had a leisurely bath to iron out the kinks of the journey , then followed the receptionist 's directions to the old part of the town , a maze of narrow streets where old timbered buildings leaned amiably towards each other . |
| 12 | The market place and its world renowned gothic cathedral in the old part of the town , the numerous wine-bars , restaurants , pubs and cafe e s all add to a warm and friendly atmosphere . |
| 13 | They also demanded that President Guillermo Endara Gallimany , 56 , make a personal visit to the old part of the city to see for himself the severe level of poverty the population was being forced to endure . |
| 14 | I went to sleep that afternoon fully dressed , and I did n't wake up until seven forty-five P.M. I washed and changed my clothes , and walked through the old part of the city with its strange , crouch-backed , medieval buildings , like a Hollywood set built for Garbo . |
| 15 | Owen had taken a house in the old part of the city not far from the Mar Girgis . |
| 16 | But there is an old part to the town , running east from the harbour , and a delight it is to walk through : Basque urbanism at its most attractive . |
| 17 | A new lobby has been constructed deliberately set at an angle to the older part of the building , as an aid to disguising the ‘ join ’ between the two sections . |
| 18 | To return to the lines on the other side of Croydon , the Tooting line , on leaving Tamworth Road terminus ran through the older part of the town in very narrow streets , until it passed the barracks in Mitcham Road . |
| 19 | We left for Salonika on 17 July , arrived next morning , and stayed two days , which gave me time to explore the older part of the town . |
| 20 | On one of their travels the Bookman stopped beside a shelf in an older part of the library . |
| 21 | I had been given his address by friends in Britain and now took a taxi to his flat , a couple of miles from the hotel but still in the older part of the city of Buda . |
| 22 | Although all but a small part of the encircling wall has gone , the older part of the city , with its narrow winding streets which witnessed so much of Scotland 's history , is still clearly separate from the New Town , the two being surrounded by the Victorian and Edwardian developments . |
| 23 | The older part at the south end has a small harbour and pier and is especially charming , mature woodlands creating an Arcadia of delight . |
| 24 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |
| 25 | Surrounded by apple orchards and huge cedar forests , the older parts of the town looked like parts of the Alps must have appeared sixty years ago . |
| 26 | In some of the older parts of the Bible , particularly in those concerning the earlier prophets , the moon is frequently mentioned in connection with the Sabbath , which commemorated the seventh day , of creation , when the Lord rested from his labours . |
| 27 | There are exceptions to be sure , but my best paintings are usually from older parts of the city . |
| 28 | There are exceptions to be sure , but my best paintings are usually from older parts of the city . |
| 29 | This was one of the older parts of the forest , and its silence was a thousand-year atmosphere so distilled that it was almost physically affecting . |
| 30 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |