Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The connection of deafness with the Dukes of Devonshire persists to this day : the 11th Duke is Patron of the National Deaf Children 's Society , and also of the Royal School for the Deaf , Derby . |
| 2 | Judge Allen told Clarke : ‘ Nothing this court can do can remedy the harm caused by your decision to drive on that day . ’ |
| 3 | The senders of the first five correct entries drawn on that day will each win a copy of the book . |
| 4 | This sad cycle of drought , deforestation and desertification continues to this day as the Sahara grows year by year . |
| 5 | This time , however , his dozen men engulfed by thousands of Highlanders , Molloy was forced to surrender , on favourable terms , the victorious Jacobites eagerly seizing his stock of food and then using its own gunpowder to demolish the barracks ; the resulting ruins remain to this day . |
| 6 | The council meeting on that day tackled the question of how to pay for the coronation and the longer-term problem of household expenses . |
| 7 | The council meeting on that day tackled the question of how to pay for the coronation and the longer-term problem of household expenses . |
| 8 | ‘ These were his only callsall deliveries promised for that day . ’ |
| 9 | Diana is later to tell friends their marriage died on that day . |
| 10 | Somehow , perhaps because of the retention of the ancient stones and bell tone , the air of monastic mystery and peace pervades to this day and is easily absorbed in this small environment of stillness and solitude . |
| 11 | On 6th December 1967 , the Forth Harbour Re-organisation Scheme became law by virtue of a Confirming Act passed on that day . |
| 12 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 13 | In 1694 Jean Gailhard wrote a pamphlet urging that the annual commemoration of 30 January and 29 May be stopped , arguing that the sermons delivered on that day helped perpetuate the country 's political divisions , though it is clear that what he objected to was the fact that these days helped promote a Tory vision of government in Church and State , since he himself did not believe anything done during the reigns of Charles I or Charles II was worth commemorating . |
| 14 | The Celtic player Neil Mochan claims to this day that the 1954 squad were nicknamed ‘ The Liquorice Allsorts ’ . |
| 15 | This type of alteration in the appearance of the eye goes on all day , as the animal moves from light to shade and back again , and it is so common a shift that it tends to obscure the other pupil changes that are taking place . |
| 16 | Somewhere , deep down , his body lies to this day . |
| 17 | Some modern footgear and small sized chocks would have been better than acid drops on that day ! |
| 18 | Deland 's business survives to this day but , then , as now , it concentrates on lower-level search rather than on chief executives and Board directors . |
| 19 | No , there were no fishing boats coming through that day . |
| 20 | ‘ You must be getting awful cabin-fever stuck in all day , ’ said Emma , as they pushed through the lancing wind . |
| 21 | Nowadays a modern road crosses the Glenshane Pass , and a forest has been planted across from the pub , but the tradition of hospitality begun in the little farmhouse continues to this day . |
| 22 | In order to bring about reconciliation , in 1301 , Edward had his eldest son , Edward of Caernarvon , proclaimed the ‘ Prince of Wales ’ , and that custom continues to this day . |
| 23 | Cocker 's scepticism was not typical of the sentiments expressed on that day : Ald. McNaughtan , the Tramway Committee Chairman , in laying the first rail said that Blackpool 's delay in constructing a tramway was fortuitous , otherwise they would have had horses or steam , ‘ instead of nature 's more wonderful , immense and mysterious agency — electricity ’ . |
| 24 | Three large buttons grace the front : a power stitch , a reset button and a turbo switch , though goodness knows why we still need turbo switches in this day and age . |
| 25 | But where the queen 's tears flowed down the wall , a little stream runs to this day . |
| 26 | But it was not the only rainforest tree to fall on that day . |
| 27 | The epidural starts taking effect and I suddenly understand the meaning of the word ‘ relief ’ in the name given to this day ! |
| 28 | The general astonishment lingers to this day . |
| 29 | ‘ Picnic ’ : a word that she had had no occasion to use from that day to this . |
| 30 | This would of course mean that the costing documentation processed for each day , week or month ( depending on the size of the company ) would not be split between individual contracts , development or overhead items , but filed in order of processing . |