Example sentences of "[adj] year ['s] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of you who attended this year 's day given by seemed to have gained a lot from it , so what else would you like ? |
| 2 | According to Jewish calculation , the year of Leonard 's birth was 5694 , in the month of Tishri ( the biblical name is Ethanim ) , which is the first month of the religious year with several of the most important religious festivals in it : New Year 's Day itself ; the 10 Days of Penitence prior to Yom Kippur ( the Day of Atonement ) ; and the pilgrimage festival known as Succoth , also known as the Feast of Booths ( or Tabernacles or Ingathering ) which is a harvest festival , an especially colourful and joyous one traditionally , in which the priestly activities in the Temple climaxed . |
| 3 | The overlord Greg Dyke , having paid a minimum of £11m a year for exclusive rights to the League ( at the current rate of inflation , the four-year , index-linked bill could soar over £50m ) , hit his audience target of eight million when Manchester United beat Liverpool thrillingly on New Year 's Day . |
| 4 | Tirpitz lies at the bottom of the local fjord , and every year the local diving club goes down to it on New Year 's Day to retrieve a handful of bits guaranteed to fuel the old fires for another year . |
| 5 | One of them once issued an edict against promiscuous kissing on New Year 's Day . |
| 6 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 7 | From next year , all dialled local and national calls , and most direct-dialled international calls will be charged only at cheap rates on Christmas Day , Boxing Day and New Year 's Day . |
| 8 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 9 | Mike Teague will miss Gloucester 's match against Bridgend at the Brewery Field , but the Lions and England forward will turn out in the home game against Moseley on New Year 's Day . |
| 10 | Paul Goddard will make his Millwall debut — against his old club , Derby — on New Year 's Day after completing his £800,000 move yesterday following a medical . |
| 11 | Trevor Francis is still ‘ thinking over ’ an offer to join Luton and is set to make a decision on New Year 's Day . |
| 12 | A determined armchair athlete on the east coast could have spent 11 consecutive hours watching college football on new year 's day , and millions no doubt did . |
| 13 | This despite the increasingly apocalyptic talk about the inflation and unemployment that would arrive with the launch on new year 's day of a set of economic reforms : price liberalisation , the sale of small businesses and internal convertibility of the crown ( meaning that Czechoslovak firms licensed to conduct foreign trade can now buy as much foreign currency as they want at the newly unified exchange rate ) . |
| 14 | On 1 January 1987 you conducted the New Year 's Day Concert in Vienna . |
| 15 | The girl claimed she was raped in her bedroom during Christmas 1990 and again in the man 's home on New Year 's Day 1991 while her brother slept only feet away . |
| 16 | On New Year 's Day of 1848 , friendly Nez Perce escorted him out of their lands to Fort Walla Walla . |
| 17 | The troops returned to Fort Walla Walla in September , but were recalled to the valley on New Year 's Day by reports that Joseph 's Nez Perce were murdering the settlers . |
| 18 | As a Scot , I was expected to take New Year 's Day as leave rather than Christmas . |
| 19 | The walks will take place all over England and Wales between Boxing Day and New Year 's Day , and each will be led by representatives of the Trust and the Ramblers ' Association . |
| 20 | Camp on New Year 's Day was a trial , too . |
| 21 | The old man , who had survived three wives and latterly lived ‘ above the shop ’ in the abandoned Town Hall over the ‘ Black Hole ’ , died on New Year 's Day , 1891 . |
| 22 | Despite the chill he caught on New Year 's Day 1934 while watching a game at Bury , Chapman decided to go to Sheffield the next day to watch the Wednesday , Arsenal 's next opponents at Highbury . |
| 23 | The first conversion came on New Year 's Day 1858 . |
| 24 | It was the match against Gillingham ( 4–1 ) on 5 March — 12,000 fans turned up , the band played ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ and Ted kicked off for us , even though a persistent injury prevented him from playing after New Year 's Day . |
| 25 | He was content to leave matters there to his Secretary of State for Scotland , Sir John Dalrymple , Master [ later Earl ] of Stair , who offered a pardon to all those chiefs who would swear allegiance to the new king by New Year 's Day , 1692 . |
| 26 | Boxing Day to New Year 's Day ( inclusive ) |
| 27 | No amount of persuasion would induce her to stay with us for more than a few days before she 'd vanish again to pursue her old habits , and on New Year 's Day 1967 , the police called for the last time . |
| 28 | Walking away from Dudley — with the feeling that once again she was deserting her grandfather — she thought back to the moment on last New Year 's Day when she had looked down Nordale from her bedroom window , all eagerness for what 1848 would bring . |
| 29 | From New Year 's Day onwards , the whole of 1849 , the last year she expected to spend in England , was to Ruth simply a period of temporising ; of waiting , though seldom patiently , for the only event which had come to mean anything . |
| 30 | Open New Year 's Day . |