Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 2 | It was almost 2215 , and 300 cases had been treated on the first day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Executive Committee have decided that we should be represented and a static display stand has been booked for the five days . |
| 5 | The lesson was learned , and in subsequent years a photocall has been organized for the first day , when the Prince and Princess pose sweetly for the cameras on the understanding that thereafter the media will go home so the two can holiday in peace . |
| 6 | Great advances have been made since the early days of computing , when specialist skills were needed for such interaction . |
| 7 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 8 | Now a play 's been written about the darker days of his life in Worcestershire . |
| 9 | When you look at that mausoleum , with its granite monsters biting into the construction , then you feel you have been transported into the present day situation . |
| 10 | The quick redemption of bonds seems to have been envisaged from the early days for this kind of comment recurs. that the repayment took over 75 years to accomplish is remarkable , but that it is so is attributable to three things , compounded by other factors such as two World Wars . |
| 11 | The reports are available in formats which have been approved by the Latter day Saints . |
| 12 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 13 | Nor was this surprising , for she had been born on the shortest day of the year , which is the sun 's birthday also . |
| 14 | In military terms the problem should have been settled on the first day . |
| 15 | The tone had been set from the earliest days of the BBC . |
| 16 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 17 | The principal vehicles for this analysis are the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods , because of its major importance in private commercial law ; the Unidroit Conventions on International factoring and International financial Leasing , with which the writer has been involved from the early days of their conception ; and the rules and trade terms promulgated by the International Chamber of Commerce , which demonstrate how much can be achieved by the contractual approach to the harmonization of commercial law and practice , and which will be given particular attention later . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the face of opposition calls for a boycott , and reports of widespread apathy among the electorate , the Interior Ministry announced on Sept. 5 that a 99.96 per cent " yes " vote had been achieved in the previous day 's referendum on proposed constitutional changes . |
| 20 | The wader passage in spring and autumn is also outstanding ; on several occasions nineteen species of wader have been recorded on the same day . |
| 21 | The particular suitability of railways to carry bulk minerals like coal cheaply has ensured that the connection between the railways and such minerals has been maintained to the present day . |
| 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 . |