Example sentences of "[verb] be [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liese said , ‘ This has been a day of great accomplishments . ’ |
| 2 | It has been a day which commenced so stunningly with the horse and carriage procession , swept forward with the harmonious , soaring , musical arrangements at the wedding ceremony , and has culminated in the utter perfection of the gourmet dinner , all in keeping with what we have come to expect from the organizational abilities of one of the world 's paragons . |
| 3 | Adjoining was the day compartment , with settee , tables , and armchairs . |
| 4 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
| 5 | See he get 's a day and a half off , I mean it 's like we , I mean well this is why Dave said , he said do you fancy he said |
| 6 | It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later . |
| 7 | It must have been a day or two afterwards that she had seen the picture . |
| 8 | For my part , there can hardly have been a day when I did not think of Eliot , when his growing prestige was not a source of immense satisfaction and pride to me , and when personal news about him , however brief , was more than welcome at such distance than propinquity without meeting would have been . |
| 9 | That would have been a day tomorrow . |
| 10 | They reserve one day for women , and in 1886 there may have been no day reserved for women at all . |
| 11 | It could have-been yesterday or it could have been the day before . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Then it must have been the day Angy was murdered ! |
| 13 | yes , that would have been the day of publication |
| 14 | Gone are the days when women and children scrabbled along the furrows in the wake of a plough or simple digger collecting the fruits of the earth by hand . |
| 15 | Gone are the days when dessert fruit which was n't fit for the mansion dining room was doled out by the head gardener to his hard-working bothy boys . |
| 16 | Gone are the days when your emotional state was indicated by the depth of black border around the edge of your stationery or by changing your clothes from black to mauve to grey . |
| 17 | Gone are the days when Hull among behaviourists or Lorenz among the classical ethologists could assume that all motivational mechanisms were of the similar type . |
| 18 | Gone are the days of slipping the boss a bar of chocolate at a break ; now it 's a banana or an apple to supply the energy and get rid of hunger pains , or , as Ian Wright administers to Seve Ballesteros , a muesli bar . |
| 19 | Gone are the days when Grandma lived down the road and Auntie Maud was just around the corner , each of them providing a comforting and experienced shoulder for the young mother to lean upon . |
| 20 | Gone are the days of spending frantically because the end of the financial year was nigh . |
| 21 | Gone are the days when organisations automatically recruited new graduates irrespective of their degree topic on the basis that three years at university show that someone has the intelligence and application needed to hold down a job . |
| 22 | Gone are the days of the one-to-one gentleman 's agreement ; handsets have replaced handshakes . |
| 23 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 24 | Gone are the days when the , existence of a signed building contract merely reflected a formality required by prudent businessmen . |
| 25 | Gone are the days of returnable bottles and jars . |
| 26 | Gone are the days when fruit and vegetables were eaten only in the area and season in which they were harvested , and a few put aside for home pickling or preserving . |
| 27 | ‘ Gone are the days when we used to crumble half a ola of it into a chillim of tobacco . ’ |
| 28 | Gone are the days when a couple furnished their house from top to bottom in a style that fitted in with the tastes of friends , neighbours , colleagues at work , or cronies down at the pub or tennis club . |
| 29 | Gone are the days when all Christmas school plays focused on the Nativity . |
| 30 | GONE are the days when giving a child a book was seen as a somewhat unimaginative Christmas present . |