Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the day " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast with my wishful thinking of the day before , I now found it impossible to visualize anything after the moment when the lights would go out and the window of the block would be thrown open . |
| 2 | With a quick reflex action he caught the tompaw , a short stout wooden handle with a steel claw set in the end , and thumped it into the first deal of the day . |
| 3 | Sweepers raked the dirt and dung away from the front of stalls ; a muezzin called from the minaret of a nearby mosque ; chai wallahs pulled their blankets closer around them and lit their burners to boil the first tea saucepan of the day . |
| 4 | Commitment and concentration were better if the bulk of the day 's work was past . |
| 5 | While the bulk of the day was taken up in full discussions with Ewen Muncro , time was also found to meet up with some important business customers . |
| 6 | Erm , but those , that has all my appointments on , and I use a very simple system of crossed hatching when I am away from my base for , for the bulk of the day . |
| 7 | But under all four Presidents of the Fifth Republic the state and public sector actors remained the lodestone , the reference point , of communications policy-making : the dominant political force of the day uses state patronage to fashion the communications landscape in a manner conducive to its interests . ’ |
| 8 | There was colossal opposition to these developments at the planning stage , but local people 's views were generally ignored by the Tory administration of the day , who basically held the same values as the developers and permitted the schemes . |
| 9 | This year Douglas Reyburn also acted as hosts with Bill Service , Personnel Manager , organising the administration of the day . |
| 10 | And dangerous for the goat : a myotonic goat picking himself up from his umpteenth collapse of the day might wonder why natural selection had not taken its course long ago and dispensed with his unhappy breed . |
| 11 | The system works in conjunction with Central 's newsroom computer system and will provide a word-for-word transcript of the day 's news stories as they are presented on-screen . |
| 12 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 13 | At 4.30 am the Corporal of the day , a squat pig-like Polynesian called Vigno , came round the rooms , turning on the lights , throwing open the windows and tipping people out of bed , at the same time screaming at us in French to get downstairs on to the parade ground for ‘ appel ’ or roll call . |
| 14 | Any petty misdemeanour resulted in the offender having to report to the Corporal of the day with his entrenching tool after evening ‘ appel ’ . |
| 15 | Lisboa went on to become the leading soccer club of the day and eventually changed its name to Benfica , the club renowned today in world soccer . |
| 16 | You know , the champion who is consistently ahead of the opposition of the day . |
| 17 | That way the donor 's cards are not muddled in the confusion of the day , and presents are kept safely and not left in hotels or halls where they might go astray . |
| 18 | Sheila , a year younger still , was too self-centred and bright ever to challenge authority on poor ground and she pretended to be sick in order to escape the tension of the day . |
| 19 | Lewenthal 's and Danon 's performances , now ( my goodness ! ) thirty years old , were recorded in the teeth of the dehaut-enbas prejudice of the day and , although their earnest approach loses a little spontaneity in the making of their point , they must have taken some of Gershwin 's critics by the scruff of their ears . |
| 20 | I can see them in my mind 's eye rising and dancing slowly around the room , their bodies undulating in a controlled exuberance as if lifted out of the world of motor cars , rockets and computerised mentalities into some universal heartbeat , some rhythm of the day , of the night , of the sea , of life . |
| 21 | The longest , if not the highest , break of the day was my five-baller , which scored 8 ( green , yellow , three reds ) . |
| 22 | It 's 7.15 a.m. and time for the first break of the day . |
| 23 | Next day it was the usual Monday routine : washing , maiding , singing and sharing the gossip of the day . |
| 24 | The final witness of the day was Detective Constable Charles Woodward . |
| 25 | Does anyone , would anyone offer a more critical appraisal of the day ? |
| 26 | By then , Aitken 's pulse rate had decelerated enough for him to give a rational appraisal of the day 's events . |
| 27 | We stood on a bridge , looked down — and saw our first dipper of the day . |
| 28 | From October that year , a small car was towed behind the first electric car of the day to South Station , and pulled by a horse on a shuttle service between there and Squires Gate . |
| 29 | The pharaoh of the day is nobly shown as Horus 's second . |
| 30 | Often this is a matter of stopping the time out as soon as all the crying , whining , foot stamping has ceased and the child is quiet again : ‘ You can come back when you are quiet ’ is the rule of the day . |