Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the day " in BNC.
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| 1 | A surprising number of accidents and incidents happen because pilots are in some way not 100% fit on the day in question . |
| 2 | Their activities ranged throughout the day and night and reached a peak of basically making a noise nuisance of themselves , there were other troubles which I will mention later , in which they would be playing two or three different sound systems , and at its worst , a full drum set in the early hours of the morning , obviously keeping their near neighbours not only awake but in a state of some anxiety . |
| 3 | The division occurred on the day of a vital meeting of the 140 members of the Janata Dal parliamentary party . |
| 4 | And he gives the game away by specifying that the ritual occurred on the day immediately preceding Jesus 's triumphal entry into Jerusalem . |
| 5 | I do not believe , for example , that it was a matter of chance that the Strangeways riot erupted on the day following the Trafalgar Square demonstration against the poll tax . |
| 6 | Tension mounts throughout the day . |
| 7 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 8 | Men like Jeremiah and Ezekiel looked for the day when God would forge a new covenant , or agreement , with men . |
| 9 | Sessions run during the day and evening , with special times for different groups . |
| 10 | We have rounded off calorie values of meals to make it easy for you to add together your 450 — 1,100 calories allowed for the day ( in addition to your 400 from Fibre-Filler , fruit and milk ) ; we have also rounded off metric ingredient figures for easy measuring . |
| 11 | We emphasised that people 's body weight fluctuates during the day and during a menstrual cycle . |
| 12 | The demand for ‘ ordinary ’ books fluctuated throughout the day , reaching peaks shortly after the Library opened , and , on weekdays , just before lunchtime , and again in the early afternoon . |
| 13 | Fierce fighting continued throughout the day in the former Yugoslav state while UN officials arrived to oversee the agreed handover of Serb heavy artillery peace-keepers . |
| 14 | Air-conditioning operates during the day from 31 July when necessary . |
| 15 | The programme comes on the day police launched a new initiative to prevent such large gatherings taking place . |
| 16 | The astonishing show of support came on the day it was revealed that tapes of an intimate phone call between Di and a male friend are almost certainly genuine . |
| 17 | The unexpected support came on the day miners ' unions , after receiving assurances , agreed to call off a High Court bid to force British Coal to re-open and work 10 pits earmarked for early closure . |
| 18 | Because of the rabbits and rodents , some of which do of course appear during the day , there are also large numbers of birds of prey . |
| 19 | There are few passenger-boat services up and down the Egyptian Nile railways and roads are quicker — but we hoped to find a felucca to hire for the day . |
| 20 | The Reichs Archives speak of the day 's fighting being ‘ one of the most heroic ’ of the entire battle , an adjective not infreqently used by First World War officialdom when casualties had been particularly hideous . |
| 21 | If the Bank refuses to accept these offers then the amount of assistance provided in the first round could be a long way short of the overall amount of assistance needed during the day . |
| 22 | All proceeds raised on the day will be donated towards keeping the Staffordshire Air Ambulance flying . |
| 23 | Over one hundred youngsters benefited from the day , which acted as a pilot event for an innovative new programme designed by Mercedes-Benz and the Lawn Tennis Association Trust to provide selected schools throughout the country with the opportunity to receive expert tuition from world class tennis players . |
| 24 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 25 | Our own Planning Committee County Council Planning Committee recommends route A on environmental and ecological grounds and route A is the popular choice the town speak and the Brandon Action Group and indeed the Suffolk member of Parliament , however the Norfolk County Council and the Weeting Parish Council oppose for the day and the Norfolk Member of Parliament supports their case , worth noting that Breckland District Council , the local planning authority in Norfolk also opposes for a day , now though it appears to be so this is not altogether a case of |
| 26 | The electricity bill is due soon , and she expects it to be about £70 , much of which came from her washing machine working through the day cleaning her daughters ' clothes . |
| 27 | The important thing about night and day , most burglaries happen in the day time . |
| 28 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 29 | Barn owls roost during the day in the main tree in the picture , and tend to fly out between the bushes on the right . |
| 30 | Cigarettes were passed to Mr Say during the day . |