Example sentences of "old [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 2 | Even if the old monopolies such as Uralmash do modernise their designs , ‘ its customers with access to hard currency — in the oil industry , for example — would still rather buy foreign equipment , because it is more reliable and easier to operate . ’ |
| 3 | Bristol Rovers ( second in the Third ) make their first change this season against Fulham ( fourth ) because of Alexander 's suspension , with striker Sealy set to face one of his old clubs … |
| 4 | It might still be a little premature to consign famous old clubs Nottingham and Rosslyn Park to relegation , but both have been well beaten by a resurgent Bristol — whose youthful side have been setting a blistering pace at the Memorial Ground so far this season — and their other results indicate that they face an uphill struggle to maintain their First Division status . |
| 5 | As in Division One , it is two famous old clubs that are on the receiving end of things in Division Two and Three . |
| 6 | Any Old Clubs |
| 7 | Neither of his old clubs are in action today , but both could want him back next season , although Gosforth 's two student locks , Simon Gibbs and Alistair Meadows , have both said they will be staying with the club . |
| 8 | Nick Cusack returned to promotion chasing Peterborough , one of his old clubs , to score the goal in a 1–1 draw . |
| 9 | Quite apart from the problem of the factual reliability of old books ( is it so , for example , that there really are such eidoli and angeli as Williams , Abelard , Pseudo-Dionysus and Plato believed ? ) , we meet , much earlier , the simple difficulty of adjusting to old meanings . |
| 10 | There was no space in here for the literature that had brightened his being and not enough light between these walls for fairytale merchants brought to life in old romances . |
| 11 | There are so many carp anglers , all fishing with high nutritive value ( HNV ) boiled baits , attached to hair- and bolt-rigs , usually at long range , you can not afford to persist with the old baits and rigs and expect much success . |
| 12 | That 's what you want , not your old aunties . ’ |
| 13 | And though previous Starlings singles were pretty much pallid takes on the Mary Chain 's one wonderful trick , the screwed-up-sex prowl of ‘ Sick Puppy ’ radically twists — and improves — on old attempts by pushing the ominous bass and sliding beat upfront and not really bothering with guitars at all . |
| 14 | He also removes old teeth if they interfere with the bit . |
| 15 | Finally , some 520 million year old teeth found in fossilised form have long been a controversial subject — did they come from an early vertebrate creature ? |
| 16 | Yellow , like old teeth . |
| 17 | Ruth stood before the screened fireplace in her duchess gown , drinking her tea , the focus for all the eyes which constantly rose and came to her , and the old smiles which lifted up the lips over the discoloured , sharp old teeth . |
| 18 | The setting that clawed them was as dirty as old teeth . |
| 19 | There was the faintest of sounds , like the rattle of old teeth . |
| 20 | I could have done with a bit of weeping and gnashing of the old teeth . |
| 21 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 22 | ‘ On final closure in 1980 the temporary bridge was removed and although the old foundations are in place , they can not be used due to poor ground conditions . |
| 23 | Other old foundations which were for locational or other reasons less well suited to the changing situation , stagnated or declined . |
| 24 | Previous development may also have left old foundations , concrete slabs and basements which must be identified and quantified for additional cost . |
| 25 | And then there 's traces of er you know you could see where the old foundations and things were . |
| 26 | The easiest way to turn the car was to drive on up to the hardstand by the church , and as he swung about he realised it was in fact the old foundations of small cottages , completely gone with The Bomber . |
| 27 | Anna told him about her childhood , about the house in West Kensington that resembled a gigantic , filthy theatrical props cupboard , smelling of face powder and cats and old ashtrays , where a five-foot plaster saint , dumped on the drawing-room sofa three years before , as a joke , by one of her mother 's lovers , had subsequently never been moved . |
| 28 | The wealth of new information is a reminder that there is still plenty of scope for new studies in old fishes . |
| 29 | Oh yes , there were Well , all the erm boys from up to about the fifth form , in the old pupil-teachers training centre went , er was formed by joining that and school , they took boys from there . |
| 30 | But to make ‘ Yes Please ’ , they had to learn to say ‘ No thanks ’ to the old excesses |