Example sentences of "[adj] be a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I wake up begging : ‘ Please , please , let this be a normal day . ’ |
| 2 | When this attempt by pseudo-Britain succeeds , the real British look desperately for evidence of their own national achievement in the first moon landing , and find it in the fact that one of the astronauts is wearing a British watch : ‘ This is a great day for us . |
| 3 | British Film Commissioner Sidney Samuelson said : ‘ This is a great day for the British film industry . |
| 4 | This is a great day for weddings and engagements . |
| 5 | This is a great day for weddings and engagements . |
| 6 | This is a great day for weddings and engagements . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've travelled a tremendously long road and this is a great day for us , ’ he said . |
| 8 | This is a typical day in the life of a hyperactive child , as described by an exhausted mother to Dr Doris Rapp , a paediatrician working in Buffalo , New York : ‘ In the morning Matthew was stuffy and tired . |
| 9 | ‘ This is a fantastic day . ’ |
| 10 | He gazed across a sea of Union Jacks , stood like a guardsman for the national anthem and admitted : ‘ This is a fantastic day for me . |
| 11 | This is a sad day for the final part of the Bill to be passing through the Houses of Parliament . |
| 12 | Please come to the station at three o'clock on the 30th of the month , if this is a suitable day . |
| 13 | Cheer up , said my Cid ; … this is a glorious day . |
| 14 | Nalgo general secretary Alan Jinkinson said : ‘ This is a historic day for our three unions , for the trade union movement and for Britain 's cash-starved public services . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ This is a beautiful day at the end of a long way , but we are not yet at the end of that way , a whole lot remains to be done , ’ Mr Brandt said . |
| 16 | This is a busy day ! |
| 17 | This is a bad day for Patrick , who had volunteered that Simon was ‘ one of a certain … persuasion ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ This is a depressing day for the profession and the public . |
| 19 | This is a big day for Victor Ubogu , at tighthead , given a second chance at the expense of the vastly more experienced Jeff Probyn . |
| 20 | This was a red-letter day indeed . |
| 21 | This was a typical day at the secluded hideout : 11am . |
| 22 | This was a new day , D-Day 2 , early in the morning . |
| 23 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 24 | Did n't I tell you this was a special day ? |
| 25 | Then , apparently deciding that this was a special day , he turned and made for the thicket . |
| 26 | This was a special day for Peter Hogan . |
| 27 | 3rd March 1962 was a sad day which was not helped by the depressing weather prevailing at that time . |
| 28 | 28th August 1930 was a sad day , as the islanders closed their doors for the last time . |
| 29 | Wednesday 12 February 1800 was a commonplace day as far as the Pearmans were concerned . |
| 30 | September 21 , 1951 was a propitious day in Leonard 's life . |