Example sentences of "[prep] [art] days [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasion , it might refuse to work at all and we find ourselves longing for the days of youth when it would stand at attention regardless of any identifiable sexual stimulus . |
| 2 | Certainly , Gunnar Myrdal 's great work The American Dilemma provides evidence that , even in the deep South , during the days of segregation , the expression of racism was not completely uninhibited . |
| 3 | Boy as I said lived during the days on sugar , yoghurts , instant coffee and toast ; then every evening the man would cook up a big casserole , one big casserole filled with fish and lots of potatoes , tinned sweetcorn , something like that , and they would eat that together in the kitchen every night at seven o'clock , before the man went off to work — he worked nights you see . |
| 4 | Much though my hon. Friend may dream about the days of beer and sandwiches , I should have thought that the Opposition were so besotted with Europe that it would have to be cafe and croissants , if that change ever came about . |
| 5 | ‘ Suddenly you think about the days beyond work . |
| 6 | All through our time at Canjuers , through the days of rain and abscesses on our hands , mud and sleeping in sodden clothes , we had dreamed of the moment when we would be able to walk into a cakeshop or bar and be able to buy what we wanted , but now that the choice was available , we did nothing about it . |
| 7 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |
| 8 | In order to drive home the point that the messianic Spirit , the Spirit of the days of salvation , was really available to all believers , the Spirit had first of all to inspire Peter with his vision of the unclean animals in the sheet which were intended for him to eat , and then to apply that vision to a Gentile officer whose men were at that very moment waiting in the courtyard for Peter to accompany them to Cornelius so that he might receive the good news of Jesus . |
| 9 | Perhaps we are heading back in a full-circle towards the days of Victorian philanthropy — Back towards the days before state provision when organisations like Barnardos , the Salvation Army and the C.O.S. were the dominant providers . |
| 10 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
| 11 | On Timor by late May , however , there was the comforting knowledge that the most seriously wounded could be evacuated by sea-plane through Suai and that others could be cared for in the Ainaro hospital — a different picture from the days of doubt and dismay some eight weeks earlier . |
| 12 | From the days of gunpowder , clock-making and leather products , you will be shown , in a sound and light experience , the contribution the town has made to our heritage . |
| 13 | From the days of exchange control , UK multinational companies have always had a use for the traditional island tax havens , and even the explosion of anti-avoidance legislation in the 1980s has not prevented the use of havens where there is a definite benefit for the company . |
| 14 | John Batstone , secretary of the Teesside-based North-East Coast Pension Campaign Committee , said : ‘ We hope the weight of pressure will make British Steel realise that they are being rather immoral in disposing of the surplus , which they inherited from the days of nationalisation . |
| 15 | It is a curious miscellany , where photographs of his early ballets are mixed in with family snap-shots , pictures of his friends , souvenirs of journeys , Christmas and other greetings , a book of clothing coupons from the days of rationing , costume drawings and various illustrations cut from magazines , including a feature on Roland Petit 's ballet Carmen and examples of the ‘ new look ’ in women 's clothes when long skirts came back to fashion for the first time since the war ; he proposed a ballet about that , but it was rejected . |
| 16 | Although its milling days are long over , the mill now forms a useful storage building as well as housing a small electronics workshop , a far cry from the days of steam and dust featured throughout its century of use . |
| 17 | Instead , listeners heard the voice of Keith Skues , the veteran from the days of Radio Caroline and Radio London — which were anchored off the Essex coast — and who later joined Radio One . |
| 18 | Courage in the Skies ( Stanley Paul , 208pp , illus , hbk , £18.99 ) by AVM Johnnie Johnson and W/C Laddie Lucas two distinguished World War Two pilots , brings to life the many characters that have played a prominent part in aviation combat history , along with the many amazing developments in aircraft technology from the days of World War One to the more recent Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf . |
| 19 | Among the usual laconic entries on the debit side — US Approach , Liquor Locker , Dr Martha McGilchrist , Gas Board , Kreutzer 's , the Mahatma , Trans-American , Liquor Locker — there now thronged a host of Selina 's new playmates from the days of yore . |
| 20 | This is the day before the special weeks of Lent before the days of Easter . |
| 21 | Before the days of household appliances like washing machines and vacuum cleaners , and before motorized transport , people were more likely to obtain plenty of exercise in normal day-to-day activity . |
| 22 | He is very good , Mr , and he has been a county councillor in I think Staffordshire , before the days of pindown I have to er , hasten to add , but he does know both sides of the er , street as it were . |
| 23 | The northwest , before the days of air travel , was not as easy of access as it is today . |
| 24 | PRESENTS could be stunningly original before the days of pop-up toasters and his and hers towels . |
| 25 | In Reg. v. Walhein ( 1952 ) 36 Cr.App.R. 167 , before the days of majority verdicts , after the jury had returned to court and one juror had said : ‘ I can not in my own mind find him guilty of the charge which prosecuting counsel have not proved , ’ the commissioner at the Central Criminal Court then said : |
| 26 | The inevitable result is that the more adventurous or less safe ways of operating public transport aircraft are far less common now than they were before the days of flight recorders . |
| 27 | Before the days of radio , boats like her would race down-channel as far as the Lizard to get first contact for the ship-to-shore trade from vessels making port . |
| 28 | In fact , even before the days of plate tectonics , I have always been struck by the paucity of oceanic sediments in the continental areas . |
| 29 | The later association of stern Protestantism with teetotalism was impossible before the days of tea , coffee and drinking-chocolate . |
| 30 | On one of these trips , in a 19-foot knockabout , before the days of power , they rounded Mt . |