Example sentences of "[adj] older [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if your friend , the bridegroom , or the bride 's father-in-law or another older man is usually called ‘ Al ’ , on this occasion should you be calling him by his full name , ( and if so , is that short for Albert , Alfred , Ali , Alexis , Alexander , or , even more formally , Mr Smith ? |
| 2 | Do n't worry , Valerie , I 'm not another older man sniffing round your precious daughter . |
| 3 | The police say the mother took her baby daughter and another older child to a playgroup at the Oldbrook Community Centre in Milton Keynes . |
| 4 | In 1718 another older brother , Gerard , settled as a merchant in London , where Joshua joined him in 1722 , first as assistant and later as partner . |
| 5 | A parents of the bride or groom speaks or , if there are no parents present , another older relative playing host can make the speech . |
| 6 | When he got home he was confronted by another older woman — his wife . |
| 7 | Another older woman , who had lived alone with her mother since her father died , recalled the satisfaction of coming home to someone with all the time in the world to listen to what she had to tell about her day in the office or an evening at choir practice . |
| 8 | But how about a fresh older face that nobody knows , a fresh older face that belongs to a fellow who never thought he would win seven or eight tournaments in his career , and who says he is in awe of his 1990 season . |
| 9 | But how about a fresh older face that nobody knows , a fresh older face that belongs to a fellow who never thought he would win seven or eight tournaments in his career , and who says he is in awe of his 1990 season . |
| 10 | The Algarve coastline has many beautiful beaches and covers that are well-worth searching for modern losses , as well as a few older Portuguese coins and the occasional ring . |
| 11 | Some older pronunciation handbooks refer to this area as ‘ sentence stress ’ , which is not an appropriate name : the sentence is a unit of grammar , while the location of tonic stress is a matter which concerns the tone-unit , a unit of phonology . |
| 12 | They were popular with some older Caucasian ( mainly Karabagh ) groups , and may still be encountered on a number of village and workshop items . |
| 13 | Gillian has landed herself nothing other than the youngest older man she could find . |
| 14 | Again , this is important and relevant , but so too is this older history . |
| 15 | He was the representative of this older generation in perfection . |
| 16 | ( An ironic postscript is that a new generation of physicists is growing up right now that entertains certain reservations about orthodox quantum mechanics , themselves brooding darkly about their elders and muttering blasphemies about ‘ hidden variables ’ , a term held in unmitigated horror by this older generation of quantum theorists . |
| 17 | We shall look at further examples of this older system below . |
| 18 | In recent years this older element seems to have become more prominent ; they are often smartly dressed and travel to games by car or on scheduled train services away from police surveillance , organized in gangs with names like the Inter-City Firm , the Main Line Service Crew , or the Anti-Personnel Firm . |
| 19 | Within the house , passing by the landing window , Mrs Blakey paused , surprised to see this older boy in the garden . |
| 20 | The ability of the model to predict hypoxaemia in this older age group was not significantly improved by the addition of any other symptoms or signs to the model or by the use of a respiratory rate criterion of 70/min . |
| 21 | It is important to note that this older housing was being improved rather than rebuilt . |
| 22 | Among this older group 46 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more were admitted , 75 per cent of the others . |
| 23 | What is more difficult to predict into the middle of the next century is the proportion of the total population that this older group will constitute , because that depends upon the birth-rate , and the latter , if past experience is anything to go on , shifts unpredictably with transient social circumstances — such as the level of unemployment or whether or not there is a war — as well as with unstable social attitudes to child-bearing and the age at which it is thought suitable for women to bear children . |
| 24 | In the later phase of Mrs Thatcher 's government , Britain was in danger of being rudderless as nothing very obvious came to succeed this older source of authority . |
| 25 | A rather inebriated older Englishman said ‘ Yankees — go home . ’ |
| 26 | It seems unlikely that the individual older person will have much greater say in the decision about entering care when the Griffiths reforms are implemented as the ‘ power ’ will be placed with the case manager not the older person . |
| 27 | The Act imposes the duty on local authorities to undertake a comprehensive , multidisciplinary assessment of any individual older person for whom the local authority is satisfied that a formalized assessment is necessary . |
| 28 | It seems likely that his preoccupation with her promisingly clever older sister , Jenny ( Jane Alice ) , caused unhappiness in May 's childhood and further spurred her on to succeed in the practical arts . |
| 29 | The home will usually be a converted older house or even a large council house on an estate , and the children will go to the schools , churches and clubs in the neighbourhood . |
| 30 | We only have Burton 's spoken word for this and the obliging older woman is untraceable . |