Example sentences of "[verb] that [prep] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out first that those who are aware of the finer points of history will know that in former days ( or " the earliest days ' : the meticulous ulema were authorized to give fetvas individually according to the requirement of a particular time . |
| 2 | On Oct. 21 it was reported that in recent days at least 50 civilians had been killed during a " war " between Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas and MRTA forces in remote towns in the central Andean Huallaga region . |
| 3 | The following month , after an appeal by Iranian opposition leader Rajavi , Iraq announced that for seven days it would halt attacks on towns . |
| 4 | Er nowadays so many things are just accepted that in those days they would n't be . |
| 5 | ( It is worth remembering that in those days the Grand National fences did not incorporate a sloping apron of gorse on the take-off side to help the horses jump accurately : the take-off side was sheer , and consequently more difficult to gauge correctly . ) |
| 6 | You can see that on busy days it is just not worth fishing there . |
| 7 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 8 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 9 | As a header of the ball he was phenomenal and it is amazing how many of his goals came from his head , while he possessed an extremely powerful shot — and remember that in those days the leather ball collected any moisture on the pitch and could finish up weighing several pounds ! |
| 10 | Bill remembers that in those days lecturers learned the job slowly . |
| 11 | In the former , Lord Macmillan hesitated ‘ to hold that in these days and in an industrial community it was a non-natural use of land to build a factory on it and conduct there the manufacture of explosives . ’ |
| 12 | As a result , directives were issued that on flag-flying days hoisting should take place at 8 am . |
| 13 | think that in those days anybody would have considered taking a child out like that , you know ! |
| 14 | ‘ Or in future I 'm hoping that on three days a week when ye feel like it . ’ |
| 15 | I would like to say that in these days of environmental awareness and so on , that is a kind of harking back to times when there was a mid-winter feast |
| 16 | Who 's to say that in those days there was nt as much hype/stereotyping and bullshit as there is today ? ? |
| 17 | Standing lonely and remote in a geographical position roughly half way between the Orkneys and Shetland Islands people that know Fair Isle would perhaps agree that on most days it rather belies a somewhat optimistic name . |
| 18 | The present generation should be informed that in those days we tended to talk about ‘ civilization ’ rather than ‘ culture ’ . |