Example sentences of "[conj] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complete the following : ‘ a ? \ @*; £ ! % beats as it sweeps as it cleans ’ ; ‘ a \ @*?; & a day helps you work rest and play ’ . |
| 2 | It could be for a night , or a day , or longer — for example , a week or two weeks . |
| 3 | Under the law , there is no truancy if a child has the school 's permission to be absent or if his/her absence from school is occasioned by : sickness of the child ( not of his/her parent ) ; or unavoidable cause affecting the child and generally involving an emergency ; or a day of religious observance ; or ‘ the school … is not within walking distance … and no suitable arrangements have been made by the LEA for ( the child 's ) transport … or for boarding accommodation ’ . |
| 4 | However , much demolition is done on a piece work or per day basis , and you might simply be talking about the loss of a day 's work or a day or two 's profit . |
| 5 | It is here in the tiny , pumping heart of Europe 's ready-to-wear industry that hundreds of sans-papiers , immigrants without work permits , come to be taken on for errands that could last half an hour or a day . |
| 6 | It could last for an hour or a day or days , rising and falling . |
| 7 | The cloudless sky promised a day for haymaking , or a day for lovers to stroll through heavy-leafed woods to rest beside the green cool of a streambank . |
| 8 | Maybe it had some reality in sales transactions of other times , when buyers took goods away then and there or a day later . |
| 9 | Plan to take your team away for half a day or a day . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) The period of 48 hours referred to in subsection ( 2 ) above shall not include a day which is a Sunday , Christmas Day , New Year 's Day , Good Friday , a bank holiday , or a public holiday , or a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning . |
| 11 | The headaches , which in Italy had been tolerable when eased by a siesta or a day or two 's absence from the office , or the circolo , where he picked up most of his cases , had become unbearable in New York . |
| 12 | " Auntie Eve " could always be relied on to take an interest in their studies , or come up with something exciting such as a picnic or a day in the bush when they were home from boarding school . |
| 13 | The hurricane , the flood or the tsunami may do more in an hour or a day than the ordinary processes of nature have achieved in a thousand years . |
| 14 | If you asked him what he 'd rather have — a night wi ’ a pretty lass or a day wi' a Rolls-Royce engine , I think he 'd have had to toss for it . |
| 15 | as a follow up to the statement that was made on the evening , on the Sunday evening when you gave your explanation when made the point about the visit for a weekend away , or a day away , and to involve the parishioners . |
| 16 | It can cause problems if patients ' case records are held at the place from which they went on leave of absence , but they are being seen for review elsewhere or are attending some other facility such as an out-patient clinic or a day hospital . |
| 17 | Group membership includes all those attending a Medau class in a residential home or a Day Centre for the elderly or disabled . |
| 18 | you can have in a week or a day . |
| 19 | Very few erm Continental countries would consider entrusting the administration of justice erm to erm people who took an afternoon or a day off work every week or so and went in to sit on the Bench . |
| 20 | Cameron wanted time to think ; he was in a turmoil of emotions ; he felt for Sandy 's grievance even while he was blenching at the man 's mad certainty that a day of reckoning was near . |
| 21 | The Foreign Office Minister , Mr William Waldegrave , said : ‘ The message we must get across is that those in the security services , those working for the state , should recognise that a day of reckoning will come for them as it has come for the East Germans and others . ’ |
| 22 | Officials concerned with environmental policy predict that a day of reckoning will come when the issue has to be faced again . |
| 23 | Consequently , you seem to have experienced a testing period in close personal ties and in joint financial arrangements , and during the first three weeks of April you will come to realise that a day of reckoning or a major upheaval was unavoidable . |
| 24 | I think that ha has to be in on if you 're on a slightly longer course than that a day you |
| 25 | In London , weddings usually took place on Saturday , so that a day 's work was not lost , and in Middlesbrough , Lady Bell , the wife of the ironmaster , recorded that marriage was ‘ merely an incident in the daily work ’ . |
| 26 | And that means that a day of universal socialism will dawn . |
| 27 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 28 | It was interesting to receive several comments that a day long visit to one or other of the sites might have been preferred . |
| 29 | He suggested that a day or so of drunken dissipation was the result of a previous period of intense labour . |
| 30 | If Heydrich had a regret about life on earth — and he had never been heard to express one — it was that a day held merely twenty-four hours . |