Example sentences of "of a old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether his fainting goats were a new mutation or part of an older breed remains unclear . |
| 2 | Thomas Hardy , of an older generation , had implicitly claimed to be , and in the event had proved to be , a profoundly Virgilian poet . |
| 3 | Mary Clarke and Bill Scott , members of an older generation , agreed that the clowns would sweep everybody 's doorstep as they walked round the village . |
| 4 | The Kingman Committee included traditionalists of an older generation such as Peter Levi , Professor of Poetry at Oxford , and Patrick Kavanagh , a poet whose conservative views were well known from his regular column in the Spectator . |
| 5 | Since the Russian Revolution did not spread to the West , Communists became prisoners of a state with pretensions to a universal mission , and their identification with the foreign policy needs of the Soviet Union represented little advance over the subordination of an older generation of radicals to the interests of the City of London . |
| 6 | In some districts it was due to the death of an older generation who were , often for reasons of religious belief , philanthropically disposed and whose successors lacked this combination of religious commitment ( evangelicalism in particular had lost much of its mid-nineteenth century hold ) and social responsibility . |
| 7 | Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people . |
| 8 | Samuel Bamford 's account of early days in cotton manufacture contrasts the caring attitudes of an older generation of putting-out cotton masters with the harsher circumstances some years later . |
| 9 | However others of an older generation say women should know the risks they take once they take their clothes off . |
| 10 | The disintegration of an older order , at once exhilarating and disturbing , was most famously expressed by the poet John Donne . |
| 11 | The church took its name from that of an older church a little way off that was demolished to make way for the ramparts of the Porta Romana in 1532 . |
| 12 | Built in on the site of an older church , it once had a central pulpit with pews arranged round it in a circle . |
| 13 | She reminded him a little of an older Karen , but he was n't tempted . |
| 14 | A photograph of an older daughter of the family , then a student , had been taken in the small conservatory that leads into the house . |
| 15 | If so , do n't despair : it is possible to liberate yourself from this unacceptable ‘ tyranny ’ of a toddler ( as it so often is ) or of an older child . |
| 16 | Given a free choice , children usually choose the apparatus they are ready for and although a three-year-old may imitate the feats of an older child with a funnel , tube and bottle , he may not gain the same satisfaction as he does from achieving something much more simple on his own . |
| 17 | The present Boddington Mill appears to retain parts of an older structure for , as well as the main brick-built part , it incorporates a half-timbered , gabled section . |
| 18 | We have no name for the killing of an older man , but do have a name for the killing of one 's father . |
| 19 | AN Englishwoman who went to Canada in search of the son she believes could have been murdered has been told that a body recovered from a lake at the weekend was not that of her son , but of an older man . |
| 20 | ‘ I really prefer the idea of an older man or even a bedridden man — even a person totally incapacitated — because at least when you bought him a watch you 'd know you 'd be wearing it in a week or two yourself . |
| 21 | Hired to get evidence on the mistress of an older man who has supposedly cheated on him , Diquet and his girl-Friday Leone find themselves involved in a strange plot that involves wartime collaboration and a fabulous diamond . |
| 22 | And if there were n't enough Mansoori boys of the right age for Mansoori girls then the answer was either spinsterhood or a long wait to become the second wife of an older man . |
| 23 | Burton had once again followed the directive of an older man . |
| 24 | But when at last Henry spoke it was mildly and quietly enough , though his eyes , deep-set and haggard under their drawn brows , looked curiously opaque , like grey glass with no light behind it of lantern or sky , and his hands , slightly gnarled like the hands of an older man , gripped hard at the arms of his chair . |
| 25 | ‘ I would like to speak to any spectators who were at that match — particularly if they remember seeing a young girl in the company of an older man . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps I will begin by asking him to tell me what he is wearing , what his hair is like , whether his skin seems to be that of someone who is young or of an older person . |
| 27 | Even if the primary focus is the needs of an older person , the counsellor can not afford to ‘ take sides ’ , but should instead aim to help the whole family face up to and develop a wider understanding of the problems and difficulties that exist in old age , and in caring for older people . |
| 28 | The issue of an effective and humane transfer of an older person from hospital to the community is of considerable importance . |
| 29 | Directors would normally maintain such lists of candidates in order of the date of receipt of the applications , but this apparent fairness had occasionally to be circumvented in case of urgent necessity by borrowing from another director with a less crowded list in the case of an older candidate , for it was often not feasible to advance a candidate over the heads of others in a list for fear of giving lasting offence . |
| 30 | There is , however , a tradition of an older Muftilik , advanced with some consistency , though no very great accuracy , by d'Ohsson and , among Turkish authors , by Ali Emiri Efendi in the short history of the Muftilik in the . |