Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [art] day [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Domestic disputes like this happen every day between the 1,000 squatters who live in Buntong Tiga , Malaysia .
2 A list of the kadis in office in Anadolu in early Muharram 928/early December 1521 , forty years after the death of Mehmed II , shows the kadi of Bursa to be receiving 300 akce , while according to Gokbilgin , the kadi of Edirne was likewise receiving an allowance of only 300 akce a day at the beginning of the tenth/sixteenth century .
3 I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends .
4 So while some ended the day in search of a different career .
5 It 's easy to spoil the day by trying to do too much . ’
6 Sabine begins the day by making her husband look at a pile of dirty washing by the bed .
7 Switchboard operator , who reckons she takes at least a dozen calls a day from France , has joined the classes .
8 The nurses made approximately 41 visits a day to clients with leg ulcers .
9 ‘ He would be better doing a day at the mill . ’
10 Always be sure to start the day with a good breakfast
11 Far from being an academic abstraction , the notion of discourse type is something we all use every day in order to orient ourselves towards the communication in which we are involved .
12 Now that our raison d'etre , helping to win a war , had been removed , we were all counting the days to our release and petty regulations , necessary though they might be , were becoming very irksome .
13 A waitress in the hotel said they all remembered the day of the big Piper Alpha rig disaster ‘ in the same way that we remembered where we were when Kennedy was shot ’ .
14 It 's good to end the day like this — they often do n't get the opportunity to experience this at home .
15 ‘ Anyone able to spare a day during July and August will make a lot of difference between putting a limit on numbers or keeping the doors open for all children . ’
16 Constanze was only too happy to recall the days of her first marriage , and she pointed out Mozart 's own favourite numbers from the operas , including Cherubino 's ‘ Non so più ’ and the sextet ‘ Riconosci a questo amplesso ’ from Figaro ; ‘ Di scrivermi ’ , the second quintet from Così fan tutte ; and the Commendatore 's music from Don Giovanni .
17 On a date chosen by each school , pupils will be able to spend a day in ‘ civvies ’ in return for a donation to the Deaf Self Help Society , of which Julian is patron .
18 The next day — Friday — was the weekend so I was able to spend the day with Pat which was lovely .
19 In spite of the revival of interest in airships now they can be filled with cheap helium , they are still unattractive in most circles and it is no good quoting the figures for people killed in airship crashes against those killed every day on the roads and similar statistics , or the successful career of the R100 , although filled with hydrogen .
20 He then became kadi of Amasya , then defterdar , then kadi of Damascus in 927–8/1521 , after which " posts diverse of rank " , as Mecdi writes , he returned to teaching , according to Taskopruzade at the Sultan Murad Khan medrese in Bursa , according to Mecdi at the Yildirimhan ( Bayezid I ) medrese in Bursa , and then , according to both , with 70 akce a day at the Sahn , from which he was subsequently removed , dying in retirement with a pension of 80 akce .
21 In recognition one train a day during certain summer Sundays will be hauled by representatives of the collection .
22 The Teesside TransPennine link is part of a series of changes now under way or in the pipeline for local services : — Northallerton and Thirsk will get hourly trains to York , Leeds , Manchester and Liverpool instead of two hourly ; — One train a day in each direction will take in Stockton , Hartlepool and Sunderland , terminating at Newcastle ; — The Monday to Saturday Darlington to Hartlepool service , barely used and regularly cancelled , will be axed next month .
23 One train a day in each direction will take in Stockton , Hartlepool and Sunderland , terminating at Newcastle .
24 One finds in Barkan/Ayverdi a summary of Molla Husrev 's for several in Istanbul , dated Rabi " I 870/October-November 1465 , amongst the expenditures from which are several in connection with a medrese : 20 akce a day for teaching ( tedris ) , 16 akce a day for the students and so on .
25 We 've been taking at least one call a day for more than a year . ’
26 A raider — either the existing management or a buy-out specialist such as KKR — in effect took a gamble rather like that taken every day by a stockmarket dealer or currency trader .
27 I had no proof of it but I was much too shy to eat every day in the company of soldiers anyway , so I decided to find somewhere else to eat .
28 Smoking : ‘ Twenty Woodbine a day since the age of twelve . ’
29 And as Doctor Beri manages a brief break in the staff rest room … his shoes tell their own tale of how sole destroying a day like this can be .
30 I was , then , both surprised and disappointed to discover a day before the visit that Sir James would be coming alone .
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