Example sentences of "old [noun pl] [unc] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are piers built out over the harbour , and indicate old merchants ' houses , where ships could unload directly into the premises . |
| 2 | Karr smiled , returning the old gentlemen 's bows before allowing one of the waiters to pull a chair out for him . |
| 3 | To those ladies who were responsible for dealing with this charitable effort , she would offer as much as five shillings for a bundle of what appeared to them as less attractive articles , especially if they were food-stained , as some old gentlemen 's coats often were . |
| 4 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 5 | The study sample did not differ significantly from the totality of new referrals in terms of age distribution , sex ratio , or referring agency , apart from having a lower proportion of referrals from old peoples ' homes ( 8/100 v 10/378 ; χ 2 =4.87 ; p<0.05 ) . |
| 6 | There has been a great deal of national publicity about the plans of the Labour-controlled Nottinghamshire authority to close 12 old peoples ' homes . |
| 7 | PLANS to close eight old peoples ' homes in Co Durham are disgraceful , says Peter Bergg , the Liberal Democrat prospective Parliamentary candidate for Darlington . |
| 8 | A Darlington couple have pledged to save one of the town 's old peoples ' homes from closure . |
| 9 | His other great interest was in climbing , especially in the Alps ; a subsidiary peak on the Matterhorn is named after him , and the Zermatt museum possesses his ice-axe and his signature ( and those of other Victorian intellectuals ) in old visitors ' books . |
| 10 | There are so many paths and old miners ' tracks around this area of Swaledale that you could spend years walking them and exploring the old workings and still not cover them all . |
| 11 | Examples of these huts are still identifiable around these old mens ' workings . |
| 12 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 13 | Gossip is Old Wives ' Tales . |
| 14 | A process so hedged about with medical mystery and old wives ' tales that no man was allowed to share in it now became an experience he must not miss for the world . |
| 15 | Dr. Corrigan suggests that ‘ by the time the World Health Organisation have listed and checked all the herbs which could be used , doctors may find themselves prescribing herbs which were once dismissed as old wives ' tales ’ . |
| 16 | Old wives ' tales ( BBC 1 , 2 March ) … was a delight and a pleasant bout of instruction . |
| 17 | This wily trio dispense the sherry and old wives ' tales with an impeccably manipulative air as ancient servants creak round in turbans and white gloves . |
| 18 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 19 | You can forget old wives ' tales about it clearing up ‘ when you get married ’ or ‘ growing out of it ’ . |
| 20 | They ran health centres ( offering a mixture of self-help , herbal-ism , old wives ' tales and orthodox medicine ) for women finding to their cost that FAMILY had a stronghold in the dwindling official health services ; they dug up neglected laws on sex equality and fought hopelessly to get them obeyed . |
| 21 | Some dismiss these as myth in the sense of old wives ' tales . |
| 22 | While we are on this subject , it may be remarked that even social workers sometimes give credence to one or another of the old wives ' tales which surround pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 23 | Old wives ' tales abound in pregnancy , particularly concerning the sex of the child : excessive sickness is supposed to indicate a girl and boys are supposedly ‘ carried in front ’ . |
| 24 | I thought that people were always disappointed in their old friends ' children , seeing them as diluted , distorted versions of their parents , not nearly as much fun and full of peculiar new ideas . |
| 25 | It is the day when gossip is exchanged , slander is perpetuated , goods are bought and sold , refrigerators , deep freezes and wine cellars are replenished , bubblegum stuck to the more inviting parts of old ladies ' dresses , and money transferred from the coffers of the DHSS to the tills of the Red Lion in joyous cacophony . |
| 26 | Information was also given by the Friends of Cathedral Music , the Cathedral Organists ' Association , the Choir Schools ' Association and the National Federation of Cathedral Old Choristers ' Associations . |
| 27 | In reply to an enquiry by the Commission , the Federation of Cathedral Old Choristers ' Associations sent a questionnaire to its member associations , in order to gauge the involvement of former cathedral choristers in the life of the Church . |
| 28 | But it was a bitter-sweet day for the striker who lives on the road — training with his old Dons ' mates , staying at his mum and dad 's in Derby and arriving in Sheffield just to do the business . |
| 29 | Though apparently quite spry , the old men 's memories are not what they once were . |
| 30 | Edward , who had seen both of these creatures on the television screen , pictured the tiny animals , with their sad wise old men 's faces framed by silky manes , their long , long tails , their agility . |