Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US decision was the decisive factor in persuading the military-backed interim government and local business groups to agree on the same day to renewed negotiations with the Organization of American States ( OAS ) . |
| 2 | It means COHSE and NUPE members stopping the sick being admitted to hospital , and it means rail , tube and bus workers striking on the same day and bringing our capital city to a grinding halt . |
| 3 | All subject committees meet on the same day . |
| 4 | In other ministerial changes announced on the same day by President Daniel Arap Moi , ( i ) John Okwanyo was appointed to the Water Development portfolio ; ( ii ) Matthews Onyango Midika replaced Okwanyo as Minister for Regional Development ; and ( iii ) John Kyalo was appointed as a Minister in the Office of the President , replacing Johnstone Muendo Makau who had been relieved of this post ( to which he had been appointed in May 1989 — see p. 36648 ) on March 2 [ for full Cabinet list as of September 1989 see p. 36917 ] . |
| 5 | The reason the two items appeared on the same day is your Editor 's responsibility . |
| 6 | Using as a source of data three texts from different newspapers published on the same day looking at equivalent reca reports in the same news story or editorials , finding one text similar in topic as a basis for comparison . |
| 7 | You know , Elaine did n't register my birth , and we 're not really sure whether the facts she gave were absolutely true , so it 's going to be a matter of checking all babies born on the same day in the same area , and I 'm not sure whether the people at St Catherine 's House can do that sort of thing . |
| 8 | But that was the shock awaiting staff at Knowle infants school , Solihull , yesterday when nine new pairs of three , four and five-year-olds arrived on the same day to join one couple of twins already there . |
| 9 | Azerbaijani President Ayaz Mutalibov failed , however , to attend talks scheduled for the same day with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan . |
| 10 | One set wore the same number of rings , another shared the curious habit of flushing the lavatory before using it while others married on the same day , had the same jobs and had spouses of the same name . |
| 11 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |