Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] be the oldest " in BNC.

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1 The hawthorn is the oldest of the hedgerow trees , for it gets its name from the Old English word haga , ‘ a hedge ’ or ‘ an enclosure ’ , and it was used from Saxon times onwards to make impenetrable fences — the hedge-thorn .
2 He 's he 's not come yet so erm Perhaps while while we 're waiting for the others I 'll just say a few words about the building , because erm from out here you can see er quite clearly that the central portion of the building is the oldest erm from if you look at the state of the stonework .
3 The practical result of this is that when we study the individual child we see a succession of stages of development which from the point of view of the id are just as they should be and — because the id is the oldest , most fundamental and , from the point of view of the instinctual drives which originate it , the most important agency — are just what they should be .
4 The Karpf is the oldest wildlife reserve in Switzerland , dating back to the sixteenth century , where chamois , ibex and marmots can be seen in the wild .
5 Families sometimes identify one person as the logical carer , because the person is the oldest , youngest , or has a part-time job .
6 Like human families the animal and the bird life have a order of seniority or what they call the pecking order and usually the more dominant member of the clan is the oldest .
7 The garden is the oldest , and many would say the most beautiful , of Milan 's public gardens .
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