Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 2 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 3 | The four have undergone doping tests and the results are expected within a few days . |
| 4 | The reports are available in formats which have been approved by the Latter day Saints . |
| 5 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 6 | Those girls who attempt to escape are found in a few days . |
| 7 | Normally six cases will be listed for a half day , which would allow about 30 minutes per case if all the claimants attended , but a significant number do not . |
| 8 | On 16 March 1992 Wright applied for an extension of time in which to renew his application for leave to appeal against conviction and the application was listed to be heard on the same day as Christou 's appeal . |
| 9 | A personalised pay-in book will also be posted within a few days of opening the account . |
| 10 | In the case of Henry VI , he was deposed on 4 March 1461 ( thus ending his 39th regnal year ) , to be succeeded on the same day by Edward IV . |
| 11 | It was a part of the prophecy of disintegration and chaos to be expected in the latter days ; within that context it was but one detail in a large picture , but here it was all , it was an answer . |
| 12 | er Graham seems to think they 're hinting that they should be done on the same day |
| 13 | ‘ I 've told her he 's travelling between America and Mexico and ca n't be reached for a few days . |
| 14 | ‘ Whoever put the clothes there might reasonably have expected that they would be found within a few days ? ’ |
| 15 | Their proposal will not be finalised until a few days before the F&S meeting on 5th March , but seems likely to be for a 9% pay increase ( the lower figure of price inflation and the average national wage increase ) , with no reduction in differentials . |
| 16 | Most items are available from stock , or can be delivered within a few days . |
| 17 | If it is already well dried and can be carted in a few days , this method involves less work than tripodding . |
| 18 | A massive advertising campaign will be launched in a few days . |
| 19 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 20 | The allegations were dismissed on the same day by an Egyptian Interior Ministry official , who cited a small number of cases of abuses by policemen but claimed that they had been properly investigated . |
| 21 | Since he had been commissioned in November 1858 , he had ‘ almost wholly devoted ’ himself to the building , and tenders were expected in a few days . |
| 22 | They were persuaded after a few days to go back to far-off Shaanxi province and continue to do their duty in their ‘ adopted rural home ’ . |
| 23 | Vitaly Doguzhiyev and Vladimir Velichko were approved on the same day as First Deputy Premiers , and Yury Maslyukov and Nikolai Laverov as Deputy Premiers . |
| 24 | Particularly if you were born on the same day as this other girl in the hospital . ’ |
| 25 | We were born on the same day , in the same place . |
| 26 | The playful little animals were abandoned on the same day they were thoughtlessly handed over as presents . |
| 27 | Their claims were supported on the same day by UK Foreign Office sources who said that Iraqi forces were pursuing a policy of " tremendous inhumanity " . |
| 28 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 29 | MOTORCYCLING fans here will be spoilt for choice next Saturday with four events being promoted on the same day . |
| 30 | Kiprono Nicholas K. Biwott , dismissed in November as Minister of Industry , and Hezekiah Oyugi , dismissed in October as Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President and chief of state security , were released on the same day because of lack of evidence . |