Example sentences of "[adj] day [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Cross had chosen the ideal spot for his photography some three days earlier and the picture he wanted could only be taken during the ten days around the longest day when the sun came through a gap in the hills . |
| 2 | To Sarah he wrote that he would take her to Italy some day when the sun was shining . |
| 3 | And o on this day when the church celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit ! |
| 4 | It is the happiest of coincidences for them that on this day when the mind of thinking adults in this country is concentrated on whom not to vote for , the Masters opens at Augusta . |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't spell , and I still do n't know to this day where a paragraph is meant to go . |
| 6 | My relations always come on this day once a year . |
| 7 | It 's always a very sad day when a base closes . |
| 8 | It 's a sad day when a trade union delegate and a member of the Labour Party ca n't pass an opinion . ’ |
| 9 | It 's a sad day when a trade union delegate and a member of the Labour Party ca n't pass an opinion . ’ |
| 10 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 11 | Shoreditch wishes Mr Love good luck over any polling card litigation ; but surely it 's a sad day when the suggestion that a socialist opposes mass slaughter is thought to be libellous ? |
| 12 | ‘ It will be a sad day when the camera replaces the umpire , ’ Bucknor said in response to the criticism . |
| 13 | They were released the following day when a crowd of 4000 people gathered outside the police station . |
| 14 | The previous day also the factory was evacuated after a bomb scare . |
| 15 | Interviewers can not be sure of people 's age or social class before an interview is begun and so one can see the temptation of putting a woman down as under 35 if that is just what you need at the end of a hard day when the woman turns out in fact to be 38 . |
| 16 | Davies , an arable crop specialist , is one of a team of four ICI Fertilizer experts offering ‘ Nitram ’ users a free computer service which pinpoints the exact day when a farmer should apply his product in order that the crop can best use the nitrogen . |
| 17 | These windy periods are interspersed with breaks from 4 to 8 days when regular sea breezes blow into the gulf at force 2 to 3 , with the odd day when the wind fails . |
| 18 | From that day onwards the word was never heard again . |
| 19 | From that day onwards the situation worsened . |
| 20 | As we all know , it is a matter of only a few weeks before the joyous day when the boot will be on the other foot and the right hon. Gentleman will be sitting on the Opposition Front Bench making speeches on timetable motions . |
| 21 | He said the first day I went , I , I never sold anything except a couple of por a bit dubious , so he cooked half a dozen sausages , one bit of fish and did a few chips and said I bet we 'll be sitting here all day well every bugger come for fish and chips , had n't got none had they ! |
| 22 | All day long a team of labourers , pale with cement dust , streamed up a plank out of the hold with the bags of cement , like a trail of ants . |
| 23 | ALL day long the midnight sky built its bastions of cloud over Fenwick and the south . |
| 24 | Once up in the front line , troops found that life had been reduced , in the words of a Beaux Arts professor serving with the Territorials , ‘ to a struggle between the artillerymen and the navvy , between the cannon and the mound of earth ’ All day long the enemy guns worked at levelling the holes laboriously scraped out the previous night . |
| 25 | Even in the present day when a wife may own part of the matrimonial home and may have a separate job , Scott LJ felt that the tendency was for business decisions to be left to the husband and the main domestic responsibilities to the wife . |
| 26 | It has miraculously survived to the present day when the hunt has become a social ritual , demanding special dress and even to the ‘ blooding ’ of the tyro , an obvious piece of symbolism . |
| 27 | Thinking of Rosemary had triggered off memories of that fateful day about a year ago when her brother Sebastian had come seeking her out to say he had just bumped into Rosemary Green — Rosemary Talbot as she now was — in Hazelbury 's high street . |
| 28 | This was meant to be the happy day when a group of volunteers from Berkeley , brought 40 children from the war in Bosnia , to the safety of Gloucestershire . |
| 29 | I recall the occasional sunny day when the stone wall became warm with a welcome heat , and the talk was lightened by a dry humour and saving bursts of laughter . |
| 30 | Until this legacy is tackled we believe MPG6 should make it absolutely clear that no new permissions should be granted , for to do so merely puts off the evil day when the problem of old permissions has to be confronted . |