Example sentences of "with the oldest " in BNC.

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1 The easiest way to look at the wide variety of libraries in the list is to begin with the oldest .
2 When en foule vineyards are uprooted , this is done in reverse order , starting with the oldest , the mother vine , and working down to the youngest .
3 This together with the oldest farmsteads and cottages is built in whole or part of cobbles .
4 Ageism seems to be partly triggered off by a fear of becoming old and dependent , and so a reluctance to identify or even empathise with the oldest people .
5 The ‘ Megatop Phoenix ’ era finds Mick wrestling with poor returns , but with the inception of BAD II he 's on the track once more , wearing daft hats and running with the oldest , coolest street gang in the business .
6 The increase in the number of 80 and 90 year-olds has been viewed with alarm by some members of the professional groups whose work brings them closely into touch with the oldest old — the geriatricians , general practitioners , nurses , social workers , occupational — and physiotherapists — as well as by others more indirectly involved ( HAS 1982 ) .
7 Wiley ( 1981 ) reports that striped wrens form ‘ age queues ’ , with the oldest male , at the head of the queue , taking over a breeding territory when the incumbent dies ; such queues may be commoner than we have thought .
8 Or is this merely an unexpectedly concentrated pay-off for Christie 's long-standing ( since 1766 ) rapport with the oldest and grandest British families ?
9 The building with the oldest history in the town is Magdalen College School .
10 The flowers mature in sequence , starting with the oldest at the top .
11 The four study populations reported on differ in their dates of birth as well as in their ages , with the oldest study populations being born earliest .
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