Example sentences of "[is] that the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our they 'll want to forget that the Tories programme and policies , they lied about taxes they promised not to extend V A T they lied about protecting the value of pensions well I hope the people who get the eight four P and the one twenty , the one 's that the old dears will remember that because that 's what they will be getting . |
| 2 | The key point is that the old , regulated financial systems stopped people from borrowing as much as they wanted at a given level of interest rates . |
| 3 | What British people so often fail to understand is that the old inter-island divisions and prejudices that have always dogged Caribbean life are still present , and that a successful cricket team is the one thing that transcends this fragmentation . |
| 4 | All that is certain is that the old certainty no longer exists . |
| 5 | The trouble is that the old mines consumed most of the deposits that were easiest to work , those close to the surface for instance . |
| 6 | ‘ The fear is that the old regime will come back again , ’ says a researcher . |
| 7 | One result is that the old parties face a growing challenge from new groups led by energetic men who have been excluded from the ruling class because of their race or their class . |
| 8 | The main stumbling block for Drouot and other auction houses that want to deal with Russia is that the old export regulations ban any external trade in works of art created before 1945 . |
| 9 | What has in fact happened is that the old idea of the ’ estates ' has been re-created in Mexican law . |
| 10 | What 's new is that the old defence , that a director did not ‘ knowingly or willingly ’ allow something to happen has been eroded and , Bell said , ‘ directors will have to show specifically and beyond a shadow of doubt they could not know what was happening or that they had minuted their protest ’ . |
| 11 | My impression is that the old trick of saying that the cigarettes are for one 's mother or older brother still works 99.99 per cent . |
| 12 | What is happening is that the old orthodoxies are being softened , rather than up-ended . |