Example sentences of "old [noun] that have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 2 | Very quickly , Polanski and Nicholson became darlings of the west coast film and rock-music communities , who were also selecting the new heroes of the screen — anti-heroes in fact — because it was old values that had kept those handsome , pristine hulks of the last generation at the top and old values were now strictly taboo amongst the young and trendy . |
| 3 | Of all the hard-hit member states , it was good old Blighty that had the most to shout about , not least because here was a good old-fashioned , honest-to-goodness motor show surprise . |
| 4 | His eyes , in their now puffy setting , came back to her , and there was a trace at last of the old look that had warmed her all those years ago . |
| 5 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 6 | Because that 's the old term that 's been used for however many years , and it 's still used by industry . |
| 7 | As more and more data is read , old data that has been accessed least is discarded to make room for the new . |
| 8 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 9 | He was like an old car that had been around in the neighbourhood for a long time , loaned out among your friends , used and passed on , so that when it got to you in your time , you knew what you were getting . |
| 10 | They replaced two old units that had operated the air conditioning for 25 years . |
| 11 | Severe reactions were encountered on two occasions to citrus fruits ( high in salicylate ) but further progress was hampered by obstruction at the old anastomosis that had to be refashioned in 1986 . |
| 12 | That is another old skill that has gone ! |
| 13 | For example , what might apply erm on a one year old vehicle that 's done ten thousand miles , might not apply on a vehicle that 's done a hundred thousand miles and is ten years old . |
| 14 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 15 | The lodge was an old farmhouse that had seen better days . |
| 16 | This hotel is actually an old farmhouse that has been beautifully converted and is full of character . |
| 17 | It was good , and it was getting better , and no matter what he did , all the old tricks that had always worked so well , the talking in the wings , blocking her when she was on stage , that voice never faltered . |
| 18 | To a computer programmer , the pattern of distribution of these ‘ genetic fossil ’ fragments is uncannily reminiscent of the pattern of text on the surface of an old disc that has been much used for editing text . |
| 19 | If you have ever actually looked at this document that they have produced for today 's meeting , it is not a strategy , it 's not a statement , it 's just a trotting out of the old stories that have been knocked back time and time again , but if they 're gon na bring it out , let's knock it back again . |
| 20 | I 've always ridden bikes off the road on to trails to get far into the heart of the country , but they were big , creaky , clanking old things that had to have a puncture repaired every 20 minutes . |
| 21 | Old paintings that have gold or silver in them and are on gesso ground are often found with the gold leaf or gilding scraped off down to the ground and the exposed gesso painted . |
| 22 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 23 | He displayed perfectly that contradiction of attitude ( or ‘ supreme paradox ’ , as Phillipson puts it ) in ‘ expert ’ thinking on old age that had emerged by the 1940s — on the one hand portraying the elderly as a disastrous burden on society ( men over the age of 65 and women ova 60 had formed 6.2 per cent of the British population in 1901 , an estimated 12.0 per cent in 1941 , and would be 20.8 per cent in 1971 ) , yet on the other hand , paying lip-service to their status as an exceptionally deserving group : ‘ Provision made for age must be satisfactory ; otherwise great numbers may suffer . |
| 24 | It is the loss of strength associated with old age that has permitted and continues to permit the abuse of older people . |
| 25 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
| 26 | All this , of course , is a very simplified description of an extremely old craft that has largely disappeared . |
| 27 | As he watched , I started to drag away the old door that had served us so well as foot-stopper . |
| 28 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 29 | Inside there is a piscina and in the bedrooms can be seen the outline of old windows that have been filled and plastered over . |
| 30 | On a couple of things there is a wah-wah pedal but then there 's also a very old flanger that has the sweep controlled by a pedal . |