Example sentences of "[det] 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 | It 's only open you know a half day a week . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | from that day a wife 's |
| 12 | Later that day a boy was killed and rioters left about 100 state buildings , banks and co-operative stores burned or looted . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On that day a delegation of mayors from the Barétous , on the French side , comes up and hands over three white heifers to their counterparts from the Roncal , the valley on the Spanish side ; in return they get money . |
| 15 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 16 | On that day a plane left Baghdad for London with 133 people on board , mainly women and children . |
| 17 | Saint David is the patron ( or special ) saint of Wales and on that day a leek or a daffodil is worn by many Welsh people in his honour . |
| 18 | Later that day a bomb exploded outside the home of an al-Fatah official in Sidon 's Ain Helwey camp , killing one civilian and wounding nine others . |
| 19 | But on the Sunday , perhaps because it was a strange town and I had not yet made friends , I felt all day a sense of doom . |
| 20 | But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter . |
| 21 | On the same day a water bill was approved which covered water-related projects in 17 western states . |
| 22 | It comes on the same day a consortium , including Central , took financial control of ITV 's national news service , ITN . |
| 23 | On the same day a committee was established to verify the mandate of each delegate . |
| 24 | That same day a thief walked into premises at Mill Lane and took a wallet from a jacket . |
| 25 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 26 | On the same day a group of 26 Federal Assembly deputies sent a protest to the European Commission for Human Rights about the method of screening used , which was described as being carried out without proper legal basis . |
| 27 | The same day a woman lost a finger after her ring was caught in machinery at the Sun Valley poultry firm in Hereford . |
| 28 | Hong Kong 's partially elected Legislative Council passed on the same day a motion calling for amendments , particularly to increase provisions for democratic representation and to limit the circumstances in which emergency powers could be assumed by the Chinese authorities . |
| 29 | Later the same day a meeting in Brussels of EC Foreign Ministers ( excluding Dumas who was not present ) declared that they " regret to have to conclude that the conditions for a new European initiative do not exist " . |
| 30 | On the same day a ceremony was held in Berlin at which the three Western generals at the Allied Kommandatura ( the Soviet union having withdrawn from the four-power control commission in 1948 ) relinquished their responsibility for the city , while the four powers held a joint ceremony at the Glienecke Bridge between East and West Berlin . |