Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adj] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | He strengthened old castles and built new ones . |
| 2 | And buyers also have an easy method of disposing of their cars and obtaining new ones every couple of years , which in turn means low maintenance costs . |
| 3 | We will immediately begin the phased release of receipts from the sale of council houses , land and property receipts to allow local authorities to build new homes and improve old ones . |
| 4 | Thus ‘ speculators ’ would buy undervalued currencies and sell overvalued ones , and in so doing would speed up the adjustment process . |
| 5 | As a result LMS rewards expanding schools and penalises contracting ones . |
| 6 | By making money follow the pupil , LMS will encourage good schools and penalise bad ones ; and by delegating budgets to individual heads , it will cut down on time-wasting bureaucracy . |
| 7 | An extremely public row about the denial of tenure to a young lecturer associated with the progressive party opened old wounds and inflicted new ones on this always thin-skinned community . |
| 8 | In Cote d'Ivoire , West Africa , which has lost most of its original cover of rainforest , the ODA contributed towards a project which was meant to maintain existing plantations and create new ones . |
| 9 | You can learn about the place of new technologies , acquire new skills and update old ones . |
| 10 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 11 | In spite of our concern with the dubious provenance of the term itself there remains a need to research ‘ the inner city problem ’ , evaluate existing policies and propose new ones . |
| 12 | They have to deal with the attitudes to change found within the organisation , attempting to amplify positive attitudes and reduce negative ones . |
| 13 | In tackling the grave problem of dilapidated and overcrowded property by reconditioning old houses and building new ones at low rents , the way was led , as it has so often been , by private individuals and voluntary associations . |
| 14 | A rescue plan 's been drawn up to save England 's hedgerows , The government is offering farmers grants totalling three and a half million pounds to restore damaged hedges and plant new ones . |
| 15 | Hardware is visible and sexy , so all the excitement in the parallel processing world is generated by manufacturers , but it will be the companies that crack the problems of writing new applications and adapting existing ones to exploit the technology that will be best placed to make their fortunes out of the technology . |
| 16 | It would be a misuse of powers for a judge to say : ‘ I know Parliament has given me a discretion to vary orders in contempt appeals and make just ones , but I 'm never going to use them . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , we need still more of you to encourage every Medau enthusiast or supporter to join the Society as a demonstration of faith in the lasting appeal of Medau work and the quality of training necessary to produce new teachers , both to maintain existing classes and to launch new ones , throughout the country . |
| 18 | We should perhaps stop promoting European films and promote local ones instead . |
| 19 | This week a meeting of EC interior ministers agreed to make tighter checks on immigrants and to expel illegal ones more readily . |
| 20 | If they are ill they get good doctors , if there is a divorce … over the years we have worked and experimented to discover new things and remember old ones . |
| 21 | She spilt liquid things and broke hard ones ; she slipped on banana-skins in the street , and even in places she knew quite well she frequently lost her way . |
| 22 | 1972 : Mesarovic & Pestel 1976 ) , actually becomes cheaper and more plentiful as technology finds and creates new resources and uses existing ones more efficiently . |
| 23 | Now it 's the indie bands who are stuck with endless reruns of James Brown 's ‘ Funky Drummer ’ breakbeat while the rappers continue to revive old musics and invent new ones . |
| 24 | Variations of units having the same name meant that sometimes there was easy money to be made , buying big chauldrons and selling small ones ; but usually this was only a minor nuisance , entailing conversion tables and making international communication a little more difficult . |
| 25 | This process will build upon existing networks and create new ones . |
| 26 | Proceeds will be used to expand existing networks and to build new ones , the company said . |
| 27 | Individuals have been trained to find their way through a simple maze , selecting white-painted passages and avoiding dark-painted ones by being given slight electric shocks when they made a wrong decision . |
| 28 | Two days a week — Mondays and Tuesdays — he went out with the van delivering orders to customers and taking new ones for both the printing and the art sides . |
| 29 | learn how to save energy by minimizing unnecessary actions and using essential ones in the correct way . |
| 30 | Bees , thus , actively approach horizontal stripes and avoid vertical ones , suggesting that there are two or more independent channels . |