Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |
| 2 | He felt a sudden desperate need to see Alice — to tell her of the momentous happenings of the day and ask her advice . |
| 3 | In the last century the length of the stalk varied with the status and elegance of the wearer , although the upper classes always wore the European fashions of the day . |
| 4 | But it is a citizen of London who has left us the most elaborate rhapsody which survives from the central Middle Ages on any of the European cities of the day , and William FitzStephen 's glowing vision of the London in which his hero , archbishop Thomas Becket , was born , is a startling reminder that Londoners took fully as much pride in their city as did the Italians of their day — just as the fact that the citizens adopted Thomas Becket as their patron saint reminds us that he was martyred for showing excessive resistance to the king . |
| 5 | Its interior used some of the finest craftsmen of the day , not least the woodcarver Grinling Gibbons who decorated one room with a welter of natural images . |
| 6 | On the contrary , he exemplified perfectly the interplay which was shortly to disappear : his own scholarly work was of immediate interest to — and readily assimilated by — the finest minds of the day . |
| 7 | As a result the paper came out with the most terrifying remarks allegedly made by Baldwin about some of the political figures of the day , notably Beaverbrook , but also Lloyd George and others . |
| 8 | The first was full of idealized conceptions of a Bonapartist state , made up of ‘ The people , the Legislative Body and the Emperor ’ , which would provide the answer to the political problems of the day . |
| 9 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 10 | Neither Luther nor Sandys would have achieved much had the political conditions of the day not been extraordinarily favourable . |
| 11 | Yet it is probably fair to suggest that few people could have been immune from the implications of the party struggle at Westminster , since decisions taken by the central government often had a direct affect on ordinary people 's lives , and few people could have avoided being exposed to the political controversies of the day through the various media of propaganda . |
| 12 | Ever since then he has been solidly in the ranks of the anti-Establishment , commenting in his work on the political evils of the day particularly the arms buildup of recent years . |
| 13 | He spoke increasingly less about Hollywood and more on the political issues of the day . |
| 14 | Scholars such as Plumb , Holmes and Speck have painted a picture of an independent and politically aware electorate whose voting behaviour was swayed by considerations of party allegiance and their attitudes towards the political issues of the day . |
| 15 | By his intimate connection with the greatest men of the day in the medical profession , he obtained for his pupils the privilege of their teaching free of expense , and thus it is that a considerable number in the ranks of our profession are pupils of Abernethy , Astley Cooper , Charles Bell , Brodie , Faraday and Brand . |
| 16 | ‘ They did n't collect art simply for art 's sake , but also to demonstrate to those around them just how much power they possessed , that they could afford to hire the greatest names of the day . |
| 17 | It is set by two main things : the economic circumstances of the day , and the way in which firms are owned . |
| 18 | Although the government has to operate within the context of the economic realities of the day and " should " have regard to the long-term interests of the economy as a whole , critics of adversary politics point out that a short-term concern for vote maximisation at the next general election is never far from the government 's mind and this conditions the way in which it manages the economy and makes economic policy . |
| 19 | For a long time she lay , wide-eyed in the darkness , living over again the strange events of the day , until these thoughts and impressions gradually merged into dreams . |
| 20 | Kenrick Wynne-Jones was altogether less turbulent He understood the art of getting along with politicians , and found a power base for himself through friendship with the Labour leaders of the day from the North , such as Ted short and Lord Glenamara . |
| 21 | After the usual shots of the day 's decisive football matches some highlights were shown of the Million Sterling Tournament at Sandwich , with a good puff for the dramatic finish awaiting viewers on the morrow . |
| 22 | And if I may just , that 's the last thing I need to say is the Christmas Fair dates somehow were muddled up and somebody put the wrong dates to the day , it 's Wednesday the sixteenth and Thursday the seventeenth . |
| 23 | Since St Petersburg University also employed Konstantin Kavelin ( the prime advocate of conferring land as well as liberty on the peasants ) , Vladimir Spasovich ( an enthusiastic Polish nationalist ) , Aleksandr Pypin ( a cousin of the trenchant journalist Nikolai Chernyshevskii ) and Boris Utin ( a former associate of Mikhail Petrashevskii ) , it could have been said to represent almost all the forward-looking opinions of the day . |
| 24 | That does not say much for the top chasers of the day , which are very thin on the ground . |
| 25 | This was created for the premiere of the film Dr Zhivago … hand-made by the top milliners of the day , many will go for less in the sale than they cost new but Mrs Maxwell says she needs the money … |
| 26 | This was created for the premiere of the film Dr Zhivago … hand-made by the top milliners of the day , many will go for less in the sale than they cost new but Mrs Maxwell says she needs the money … |
| 27 | Some have pigment cells which move across the light detectors during the day , shielding them . |
| 28 | As it began to burn furiously , singing broke out ; no traditional songs , just a selection of the popular ones of the day . |
| 29 | His taste in films was eclectic ; he enjoyed the popular ones of the day but also took Bobby Hunt and Oska Wood to French films at the Academy Cinema in Oxford Street , especially those by Jean Renoir and René Clair . |
| 30 | On the evening of 6 February Ministry of Information landrovers toured Ajdabiya announcing the ward committee elections for the next day and that Ajdabiyans were to elect the popular committees on the day after . |