Sentence examples for because the antique from inspiring English sources

Emmanuel Breguet, curator of the museum, recently acknowledged by e-mail that a "high price" was paid to "re-acquire" the watch, more than it had paid for other Turkish pieces it bought at auction from 2000 to 2008, "because the antique Breguet pieces, especially the antique Breguet Turkish pieces, have become more and more exciting for the collectors".

Many readers, said Llosa, are discouraged from reading Don Quixote from beginning to end because of the "antique vocabulary" and the scholarly footnotes.

Mr. Inman's business is in Waterville, Me., but he is conducting the sale in Allentown, he said, "because it's the antique toy capital of the country".

And many of the bed-and-breakfasts don't take children because of the antiques and breakage and so forth.

The Guardian's investigation into the criminal justice system has shown how the policing of volume crime is failing on a spectacular scale - bringing to justice only 3% of offences - fundamentally because it relies on the antique and failed tools of arrest and trial and punishment.

I was drawn to the antique idea of a correspondence because it seemed restrained and formal, even ritualized.

The antique furniture was oak.

The antique ship has gone.

This little box, on the antique side of the junk/antique divide, has a small drawer.

What he calls "the antique browser".

Since the Antique Era, the intensity of land use has increased.