Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ballad-type songs of the day sung by such as Tony Bennett , Rosemary Clooney , Doris Day , Debbie Reynolds and Frank Sinatra , plus the great classical music she had heard from her youth , facilitated Masha Cohen 's overcoming of her personal nightmares , and had become — along with the very important Yiddish music — the natural background to Leonard 's life , too . |
| 2 | The popular songs of the day encapsulated perfectly its mood — patriotism , courage , facile optimism masking anxiety and heartache : ‘ Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer ’ ; ‘ There 'll Always be an England ’ ( even the Scots seemed not to mind this ! ) ; |
| 3 | The name of John Gould soon became synonymous with the fantastic bower-bird , and gave a new ornithological slant to one of the popular songs of the day : ‘ Will you join in the evening and charm us as you ever have done at the piano ’ , asked Gould of Mrs Owen shortly after his return , ‘ … |
| 4 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 5 | Find it , and you may have a crime to write about that will let you bring to vivid life the social customs and curiosities of a day before yesterday . |
| 6 | The gardens of Japan were designed for recreation , and as places where friends could meet and talk , forgetting for a while the worries of the day . |
| 7 | Its interior used some of the finest craftsmen of the day , not least the woodcarver Grinling Gibbons who decorated one room with a welter of natural images . |
| 8 | Each song is a well crafted pastiche on the styles of the day and all are peppered with subtle and clever nuances to evoke memories of pubescent frustration . |
| 9 | A mouth-organ was being played in the corridor , all the popular melodies of the day slightly out of tune . |
| 10 | All the big names were there : Scudamore , Pipe , Nicholson , Dunwoody , along with a few fortysomethings helping raise money for the Spastics Society , the main beneficiaries of the day . |
| 11 | It 's an interesting thought that the images of every day life that we all make today , will sooner or later become a part of this heritage . |
| 12 | However we are acutely aware that these changes have all meant a loss of the more social aspects of the day , which are very important , and which we all enjoy . |
| 13 | I think you could 've , you could 've apacked that a bit , a bit more , to put in the er words of the day , to find out you know what was worrying him and , and what his problems were on that . |
| 14 | Like other colonial nations of the day France believed its subject peoples were inferior to the white European races , and this belief conditioned all areas of daily life in 1925 — whether they were political , economic , social or sexual . |
| 15 | The accompanying gift for the gentlemen of the day , described as an aide , was a red leather pocket book containing an identical list of names ; and quite by chance during her researches Mrs Lamport visited a museum which had in its archives the partner book to her fan . |
| 16 | Sedgwick , born in Dent in 1785 and for many years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , and a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin , describes the galleries of Dent vividly and delightfully in his book , A Memorial To Cowgill Chapel 1868 : ‘ The galleries were places of mirth and glee and active happy industry for there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel and the hum and the songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day . ’ |
| 17 | For there might be heard the buzz of the spinning wheel , and the hum and songs of those who were carrying out the labours of the day ; and the merry jests and greetings sent down to those who were passing through the streets . |
| 18 | l to r : Debbie King , Sarah Gould and Vickie O'Dell putting their mementos of the day to good use ! |
| 19 | If this declaration is not made within two months of the day of election and delivered to the chief executive or clerk of the council within that two months then the office at the expiration of the two months automatically becomes vacant and the local authority must declare the office vacant and signify the vacancy by notice signed by the proper officer of the authority and affixed to the offices of the authority . |
| 20 | ( 6 ) If no request is made pursuant to para 1 ( a ) above within 15 months of the day on which pleadings are deemed to be closed ( or within nine months after the expiry of any period fixed by the court for making such a request ) , the action shall be automatically struck out . |
| 21 | Lehmann 's interest in the neo-romantic painters rested on his belief that their lyrical and imaginative spirit counteracted the materialism and pseudo-sciences of the day . |
| 22 | Tradition , with her thousand tongues , said this barrow was the tomb of a Cornish King or Roman General , the Arch Druids of the day , an Irish Saint etc ; and , moreover , that vast treasures lay burried with the body and that in the early part of the century a golden boat had been found concealed below its surface . |
| 23 | He was resident pupil at the Lying-in Hospital in Store Street , received clinical instruction from two of the leading obstetricians of the day , Thomas Denman and William Osborne [ qq.v ] , and attended the Middlesex Lying-in Dispensary . |
| 24 | Anyway , I went into it to basically find who in the fuck I was , and what it comes down to is having a wank every five minutes of every day . |
| 25 | SOMEONE in the UK dies prematurely every three minutes of every day , and the cause is heart disease . |
| 26 | The military influence survives in an unobtrusive but strict adherence to timetables that specify where the party should be every five minutes of the day . |
| 27 | Anyone possessing the gall to launch three blows into orbit and over the fence in the opening 20 minutes of the day , as Hooper did at The Oval last August when West Indies were following on , is no mere mortal . |
| 28 | I know , yo , I ca n't talk every five minutes of the day . |
| 29 | But it is a citizen of London who has left us the most elaborate rhapsody which survives from the central Middle Ages on any of the European cities of the day , and William FitzStephen 's glowing vision of the London in which his hero , archbishop Thomas Becket , was born , is a startling reminder that Londoners took fully as much pride in their city as did the Italians of their day — just as the fact that the citizens adopted Thomas Becket as their patron saint reminds us that he was martyred for showing excessive resistance to the king . |
| 30 | Imaginative and headstrong , he became an art student , throwing himself wholeheartedly into all the extracurricular activities of the day , including , in 1968 , organising a student occupation of his art college in Croydon with a friend , Jamie Reid . |