Example sentences of "[adj] day a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
| 2 | the solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
| 3 | The solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
| 4 | The solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
| 5 | The solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
| 6 | If can recall to this day a book I had for review years and years ago in which the hero swaggered into a smart London nightclub , ordered a magnum of champagne and drank it down . |
| 7 | There are some 80 examples on show by nearly as many artists which reflect the development of the medium from the early Twenties to the zenith of Pop Art in the Sixties ; from the rather mundane Swans of Leopold Krumel to Roy Lichtenstein 's Sweet Dreams , Baby , which characterises his creativity and remains to this day an image in his art that bridges the gap between the commercial and the fine . |
| 8 | It 's only open you know a half day a week . |
| 9 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 10 | Another day a gang of convicts , chained together and bearing the mark of the broad arrow , clank along the platform en route for Portland , Dartmoor or Warwick … |
| 11 | The Brooklyn Museum sacked employees , cancelled exhibitions , and closed one extra day a week . |
| 12 | That keeper of the flame , Sir Ralph Furse , to his dying day a believer in the administrative genius of his race , was advocating by 1942 that the territories of the coloured colonial empire be allowed ‘ to grow up into nations in free association with ourselves ’ . |
| 13 | The following day a telephone message advised him his services were no longer required . |
| 14 | The statement prompted on the following day a message from UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd expressing surprise at its content . |
| 15 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 16 | On the same day , work began on reconstructing and rebuilding telecommunications buildings and the following day a campaign was launched to repair damaged roads and bridges . |
| 17 | The following day a relative came to the village and said that my mother had died of shock soon after reaching her cousin 's house . |
| 18 | There is , for instance , no recorded order to seize Rivers ' land , but its forfeiture was effective by 28 May ( when money from it was paid into the exchequer ) and on the following day a steward was appointed for the earl 's Norfolk land . |
| 19 | There is , for instance , no recorded order to seize Rivers ' land , but its forfeiture was effective by 28 May ( when money from it was paid into the exchequer ) and on the following day a steward was appointed for the earl 's Norfolk land . |
| 20 | The following day a fleet of Skodas transports us west across Czechoslovakia to Adrspach . |
| 21 | On the following day a statement was made in the Daily Worker embodying the Comintern declaration and correcting the previous statement of policy . |
| 22 | But the previous day a judge had adjourned the trial of Winnie Mandela , wife of the ANC 's leader , who faces charges of kidnapping and assault . |
| 23 | On Dec. 18 most Moldavian deputies staged a walkout because representatives of the separatist Gagauz and Dnestr Russian communities were taking part in the Congress as guests ( on the previous day a rally against the treaty in Kishinev , Moldavia 's capital , had attracted up to 200,000 people ) . |
| 24 | On July 15 the Iranian Foreign Ministry protested about the action of some 230 United Kingdom members of parliament ( MPs ) in signing on the previous day a statement supporting the exiled National Council of Resistance , which was dominated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq . |
| 25 | They 're trying to make our course into a three day a week . |
| 26 | A former District Commissioner of Wajir in Kenya said to me , when making a donation , that he had heard that the wells of underground water which had always sustained life was indeed to be our theme , and the Glasgow Gospel version of the Guid Samaritan by our ‘ 92 celebrity , Jamie Stuart , puts it this way : ‘ Wan day an expert lawyer tried tae trick Jesus . |
| 27 | The Skupština ( Assembly ) was in session , and each day a deputy of peasant origin came into the square outside the building , to deliver to a large audience a blank-verse poem , giving a highly coloured account of the debates on a bill to reform the currency ! |
| 28 | from that day a wife 's |
| 29 | Later that day a boy was killed and rioters left about 100 state buildings , banks and co-operative stores burned or looted . |
| 30 | Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then . |