Example sentences of "older [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present situation , there is more and more scope for adult or continuing education , with an older or academically late-developing constituency . |
| 2 | Most people who made the pilgrimage found it well worth their while , not only for the quality of the music-making but also for a quality of staging and design that pointedly bypassed the often musically ruinous fads of post-war directors ' opera in order to re-establish contact with an older and still valid tradition that goes back , with a passing glance at the work of Wieland Wagner , through Gründgens and Reinhardt to Roller and Mahler and , in some respects , Wagner himself . |
| 3 | Rothwell ( 1982 ) , who also points to regional variations in the production of innovations , explains it not in terms of different local levels of entrepreneurship but in terms of the regional bias of R&D expenditure towards the South East , the older and more traditional technology structure of some northern regions , the unequal availability of venture capital between regions and the local planning environment for small firms . |
| 4 | Here a door opened into the older and more modest side of the house , the side where , in stages of inferiority , less important guests , children and , in a still more distant wing , servants slept . |
| 5 | They came out into the corridor together , Rostov holding back as he allowed the older and more senior man to go before him . |
| 6 | Listening to the debate which followed the papers in this session , one was struck by the persistence of an older and more fundamental truth . |
| 7 | It had been painted in 1876 and showed an older and more ethereal poet , his head rising , as is common with Watts 's portraits , from a vague dark column of a body into a spiritual light . |
| 8 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 9 | The older and more knowledgeable horseman knew exactly what had happened and took immediate steps to neutralize this smell . |