Example sentences of "and old " in BNC.
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| 1 | As internal partitions and old seating are removed in favour of connected raised levels of hardwood balustrades and matching chairs , the uniqueness of the pub is generally the first casualty . |
| 2 | Pepper and Jack carried Bunty through the doors into the wings and on into the Property Room , a cavern of furniture and baskets of props , rich with the smell of dust and old beer . |
| 3 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 4 | Young and old people may be affected and there seems to be no way of knowing who will have this kind of problem . |
| 5 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 6 | An old kettle with a hole burnt in its bottom lay on its side in a drift of twigs and old mortar . |
| 7 | ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats . |
| 8 | ‘ We will live with mother and old Donald — you know that . ’ |
| 9 | A choking smell of pig-offal and old sweat came from him . |
| 10 | Old pensioners and old protected women |
| 11 | This clever name , with its neat evocation of new and old , describes a concept which was developed in Sweden and is spreading to rural areas across the world . |
| 12 | THE MISSING link reappears at Goodwood this afternoon in the shape of Ile De Nisky ( 2.45 ) , the horse who represents the prime piece of evidence in the argument over the comparative merits of Nashwan and Old Vic , writes John Karter . |
| 13 | In a nearby workshop a goldsmith is making earrings of long , dull-faceted Afghan lapis lazuli and old Indian gold beads . |
| 14 | For example , Easton 's section police consider it abnormal if cars are out of context , such as expensive cars being driven in ‘ poor areas ’ and old bangers in the exclusive suburbs . |
| 15 | Outside one church the crowd of peasants young and old was so large that it was reminiscent of Repin 's famous painting of 1882 of a church procession in this pious guberniia . |
| 16 | Wise men thought that he should not be too near old haunts and old friends . |
| 17 | As a result , it is hardly surprising that everything from Patches to the Daily Telegraph employs at least one rock correspondent , from a teenage school-leaver in doorstep Nikes and a back-to-front baseball cap to some affable dilettante with a plum in his mouth and old school tie . |
| 18 | Primitive worlds or pagan savage and Old Testament prophet must not be forgotten : they are essential to the struggle between good and evil . |
| 19 | His reply to the expected criticism is that ideals must be striven for particularly now since ‘ in a position in which old peoples and old cultures are likely to be supplanted by new — we are in a common danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe ’ . |
| 20 | Jackson quotes Freud 's view that something has to be added to what is novel and unfamiliar to make it uncanny ; this something is ‘ nothing new or alien , but something which is familiar and old — established in the mind and become alienated from it through the process of repression ’ ( p. 66 ) . |
| 21 | In the meantime , the miners represented hope for all of them , but within the giddy cycle of excitements they were all edgy with new fears and old illusions . |
| 22 | In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women . |
| 23 | In essence then , at this philosophical level , Callinicos is marrying historical materialism and analytical philosophy , as it were Marx and Wittgenstein , in order to defeat a range of new and old Idealisms : principally that tradition , dismissive of Enlightenment rationalism , descending from Nietzsche via Heidegger to a bathetic end in Lyotard and Baudrillard . |
| 24 | They have destroyed hundreds of lives — of the women separated for ever from their husbands , of young children forcibly kept from their mothers and old parents left in isolation because they do n't qualify as dependants . |
| 25 | Built in Luton at IBC and with a range of European Vauxhall and Opel engines that take local content to 80 per cent , they 'll be in about half of Vauxhall 's dealers with prices just up on the Suzuki Vitara for the Sport and just below the Isuzu Trooper and old Shogun for the five-door Across Europe , GM is optimistic it can sell 40,000 and has capacity for another 10,000 should Europe 's fastest-growing market segment require it . |
| 26 | An academic point , maybe , but it underlines a key difference in character and ability between new and old . |
| 27 | Even Canterbury Cathedral , the citadel of English Christianity , contains a marvellous range of mermaids , demons , snarling beasts and old gods . |
| 28 | Paint , varnish , more varnish and a blow-drier hastened the effect and old brown shoe polish filled in the cracks . |
| 29 | Cushions start at £20 and old ikats and other textiles are good value at around £100 . |
| 30 | We have an alarming number of distressing cases in our files of youngsters , families and old folk who need us . |