Example sentences of "be [verb] in [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Many of the problems concerning the children in Orkney would have been solved in the old days by the pressure of the community . |
| 2 | Many see their condition as a sign that the realms of men are about to collapse , that they are living in the last days of a dying world . |
| 3 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 4 | They are supervised in the early days , encouraged to speak up at meetings , and they also attend training programmes which are provided for all the care assistants . |
| 5 | Those girls who attempt to escape are found in a few days . |
| 6 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 7 | It was a part of the prophecy of disintegration and chaos to be expected in the latter days ; within that context it was but one detail in a large picture , but here it was all , it was an answer . |
| 8 | It is often the case that the highest ambitions can be born in the darkest days of defeat . |
| 9 | Did he stand up to be counted in the old days ? |
| 10 | Meanwhile , a spokesperson for the band confirmed that live dates are due to be announced in the coming days : ‘ There will be a handful of shows spread across the country . |
| 11 | If it is already well dried and can be carted in a few days , this method involves less work than tripodding . |
| 12 | He told the owner of the pensione that he would probably be leaving in a few days and then he made his way to the station to ask about trains . |
| 13 | A massive advertising campaign will be launched in a few days . |
| 14 | Since he had been commissioned in November 1858 , he had ‘ almost wholly devoted ’ himself to the building , and tenders were expected in a few days . |
| 15 | Lower ranks of the army in the troubled Tuareg areas of northern Niger were reported in the four days to Aug. 31 to have imposed martial law , ordered a curfew , and carried out in Agades , Arlit and Tchirozerine , a wave of arrests of alleged members or sympathizers of the Liberation Front of Air and Azawad ( FLAA ) . |
| 16 | Although Tanjug reported on July 6 that the situation in Kosovo was quiet , repeated protests were reported in the following days , notably in the Kosovo capital , Pristina ; thousands of workers responded to calls by ethnic Albanian leaders for a one-hour daily strike , despite public threats of dismissal by the Serbian authorities . |
| 17 | Further attacks were reported in the following days . |
| 18 | Incidents of violence in different places and four small bomb explosions at locations in Tema and Accra were reported in the ensuing days , and an obscure note sent to the Ghana News Agency indicated that the bombings were part of a campaign to overthrow Rawlings and his ruling Provisional National Defence Council ( PNDC ) . |
| 19 | Further arrests were reported in the ensuing days , and on Dec. 30 the Cairo-based Middle East News Agency reported the first of a series of " intensive " police campaigns against " hotbeds of terrorism and extremism " in other areas of Cairo . |
| 20 | The leases that were granted in the heady days of 1989/90 when the brewery company landlords invited rental bids from tenants , saw them hungrily bidding up to 12 per cent to 15 per cent of the anticipated turnover . |
| 21 | Adam was in Room 17 , little knowing that this was where the Russian agent Hans Putiloff had been killed in the early days of this affair . |
| 22 | A further fifty had been lost in the old days , as they were swung into place by teams of sweating slaves ( and there had been slaves aplenty , in the first days of the Power ) and the great rings had gone crashing into the depths , dragging their unfortunate manipulators with them . |
| 23 | ONE of County Durham 's longest-serving police officers is to retire in a few days . |
| 24 | On a rocky hill , about 2000 feet above the sea , Mistra was developed in the late days of the empire from the fourteenth century and was , at that time , an important centre and therefore contained some large churches . |
| 25 | Rioting was reported in the ensuing days in Yaoundé , Douala and Bafoussam , and news agency reports quoted an official of the SDF as saying on Nov. 1 that 500 people had been arrested in Bamenda , and that many had been subjected to beatings . |
| 26 | This is a direct reference to this technique , which was written in the old days of long boats , but as the boats in use get still shorter this steering effect reduces and the ease of veering off course increases . |
| 27 | However , Wing suggests that Powick was noted in the early days chiefly for the cheapness of its care : ‘ The beauty of the setting and the amenities of the farm ( 510 acres ) contrasted with the restrictive and pinchpenny regime . ’ |
| 28 | For example , Trujillo received 35 mm ( 1.4 in ) between 1918 and 1925 , but during March 1925 , when the southward-flowing current prevailed , 390 mm ( 15.5 in ) fell , of which 225 mm ( 8.9 in ) was concentrated in the three days , 7–9 March ( James , 1959 ) . |
| 29 | * A small mound ( roughly ‘ T ’ -shaped ? ) of damp sand was made to raise the ball off the ground ( if required ) , for the first shot on every hole and a box of sand for this purpose was located on what was known in the earlier days as the teeing ground , but is now known as the tee , or tee box . |
| 30 | When the system was tested in the three days leading up to the event , it responded properly each time . |