Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [adj] day " in BNC.

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1 Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ?
2 Orkney Islands Council , too , tried to prevent the story appearing in the following day 's edition .
3 The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court .
4 The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas .
5 He said in a Radio France Internationale interview broadcast on the same day that he had won 62.7 per cent of votes in the March 1989 presidential elections and that his opponents were a minority .
6 Blood loss started about the eighth day of infection when the immature adult has developed the toothed buccal capsule which enables it to grasp plugs of mucosa containing arterioles .
7 Fighting resumed on the following day [ see pp. 36972 ; 37038 ] .
8 As sporadic fighting continued through the next day , many Nez Perce warriors became keen to withdraw .
9 The sun rose on the sixth day .
10 A UK Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded on the same day by saying that it was for Iran to make the first gesture and that the UK would " not accept Iranian intervention in [ its ] internal affairs " .
11 The Security Council voted on the same day to adopt Resolution 700 issuing guidelines to facilitate implementation of the international arms embargo against Iraq [ see p. 38165 ] .
12 The Russian Federation Security Council meeting on the same day expressed concern over arms deliveries from Romania to Moldova ( although on May 31 the Moldovan Foreign Ministry had denied Gen. Grachev 's claims that Romania was supplying Moldova with tanks , claiming that only pontoon bridges and trucks were donated ) .
13 Another law adopted on the same day recognized the principle of press freedom and decreed that the news media should abstain from encouraging intolerance between tribes or races .
14 without any tangible benefit starting at the same day that is your , that is your problem .
15 It is a mystery why only one genus of this formerly diverse group should have had the capacity to survive to the present day .
16 No there was a lady came round the other day , you know asking for erm volunteers to erm tape , you know , recording conversations between people and yourselves and the family , you know ?
17 Hong Kong 's partially elected Legislative Council passed on the same day a motion calling for amendments , particularly to increase provisions for democratic representation and to limit the circumstances in which emergency powers could be assumed by the Chinese authorities .
18 When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views .
19 ‘ Her mum arrived on the fourth day of the honeymoon , ’ he said .
20 The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days .
21 If no date is specified the court would probably conclude that it was to be exercised within a reasonable period ending on the last day for exercise ( Multon v Cordell [ 1986 ] 1 EGLR 44 ) .
22 The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub .
23 The announcement came on the first day of a planned four-day general strike called by the Confederation of Trade Unions ( CTU ) to protest at the country 's perilous economic situation [ see p. 38836 ] .
24 However , it had welcomed the announcement made on the same day that two other Soviet radar stations , also seen by the USA to violate the ABM treaty , were to be dismantled .
25 But Jimenez blasted a best-of-the-week 63 for a two-stroke lead going into the final day at Crans-Sur-Sierre .
26 Another decree approved on the same day authorized the employment of Albanians abroad .
27 Ice has been shed also from South Georgia , Bouvetøya , Heard Island , Iles Kerguelen , Macquarie Island and other islands on the polar fringe , a process continuing into the present day on several of them , possibly all ( Allison and Keage , 1986 ) .
28 With twelve and a half hours left , England were clearly up against it , so when the rain fell on the fourth day they were not too upset .
29 In order to separate a lunar effect the team looked at the lunar day , the position of the Moon .
30 A warrant issued on the same day makes it clear that Buckingham 's authority extended over the duchy of York lordship of Ludlow , not specifically mentioned elsewhere .
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