Example sentences of "than [art] old [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easthope acknowledges that the pentameter line had qualities which made it more resourceful than the older accentual metre , since one could achieve a great range of poetic effects by counterpointing intonation against metre , which is what nearly all the major English poets have done , though supposedly imprisoned in this bourgeois strait-jacket . |
| 2 | The streets were not exactly reassuring , but they were safer than the old dark house , or the wardrobe of death . |
| 3 | She had grown heavier in her enforced stillness , her body was ripe and full that had been so slender , and moved with something less than the old negligent grace . |
| 4 | It was thus intended to have a much wider appeal than the old Catholic Centre Party , which gradually faded away after the war . |
| 5 | ‘ There is no bigger game than the Old Firm derby because it is the one that has survived with its importance intact at a time when playing each other four times in the Premier Division has devalued every other fixture . ’ |
| 6 | It has a strategic and romantic site and was , in its day , a modern fortress built on mural , concentric plan rather than the old central keep system . |
| 7 | If you think a little about it you will be able to convince yourself that Rk is nothing other than the old familiar resistance ( proportional to length ; inversely proportional to cross-section ) derived in a different manner . |
| 8 | Blessed be the foreign correspondent who can fly from Beirut to Athens , therefore , and in the same day pick up an El Al flight from Athens to Tel Aviv and land at Ben Gurion airport and travel — faster even than the old direct taxi route from prewar Beirut — to Jerusalem . |
| 9 | It sounded more like MacDonald than the old parliamentary master . |
| 10 | He said that the key to tackling this employment deficit lay in the bottom-up approach of working with individual , indigenous firms , rather than the old top-down formula of picking winners and targeting particular sectors . |
| 11 | Well we 've brought the two leagues together and amalgamated them and to do this , obviously the old British League was much stronger than the old National League , and we 've had to do some evening out . |
| 12 | His aggregate was four better than the old 90-hole record of 329 set by Andrew Magee and DA Weibring in the 1991 Las Vegas Invitational . |
| 13 | On 4 June he announced that in the forthcoming referendum and elections Algeria would have a single electoral college , rather than the old dual college system , which had guaranteed an over-representation for Europeans . |