Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first day of " in BNC.
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| 1 | instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal . |
| 2 | Twenty years ago she was Lucy and Frieda 's age , putting on school uniform for the first day of the winter term , long serge skirt suddenly covering the scratched knees used to shorts , thick woolly stockings sliding strangely up the white smooth skin , nylon suspender belt holding in her stomach making her think of the opening under the dark bush below . |
| 3 | Ticket prices are £7.50 but we have 10 pairs valid for the first day of the show ( Thursday 10 December ) to give away . |
| 4 | The price factors are calculated for the first day of the delivery month , and adjustments have to be made for accrued interest where the first day of the delivery month does not coincide with a coupon payment date . |
| 5 | Lawyers joined clergy and laymen for the first day of the hearing at the Saint John the Baptist Church in Great Rissington . |
| 6 | Tomorrow all roads and ways to Cheltenham will be full for the first day of the National Hunt Festival … |
| 7 | Robert Mantack from Swindon arrived at Bristol Crown Court for the first day of his trial . |
| 8 | Mounds of legal documents were brought to the Court House in Whitminster for the first day of the case between B & Q and Gloucester City Council . |
| 9 | And join us for the first day of the Henley Royal Regatta for a parade of feasting , fashion and rowing . |
| 10 | 24 year old Shaun Gooch and 22 year old Anthony Gallagher , both from Swindon arrived at Gloucester Crown Court this morning for the first day of their trial . |
| 11 | for the first day of next term , and once I 've got that money and they 're registered |
| 12 | The Burgage is close to Cheltenham race course and race goers heading for the first day of the Cheltenham Gold Cup meeting were diverted away from the murder house . |
| 13 | It is always advisable to have the mare and foal checked over by your veterinary surgeon during the first day of life . |
| 14 | The accusations came during the first day of a tribunal in which Ron Thomson claims he was forced to quit his post as general manager at the trust . |
| 15 | During the first day of the hearing and following amendments of the counterclaim , which I allowed , the landlord conceded that the compromise agreement between it and C.T . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the influence of Mithraism had led the pagans to substitute Dies Solis ( the Sunday ) for the Dies Saturnis ( the Saturn-day ) as the first day of the week . |
| 17 | This change appealed to the Christians who had long observed Sunday — the Lord 's Day ( Dies Dominica ) on which Christ rose from the dead — as the first day of the week , in place of the Jewish Sabbath . |
| 18 | The planetary week was officially adopted in AD 321 by the Emperor Constantine , who also followed the Christian practice of regarding Sunday , instead of Saturday , as the first day of the week . |
| 19 | Even so , some medieval documents treat 1 January as the first day of the year of grace . |
| 20 | Peterle said that he did not view the planned date of Slovenia 's declaration of independence as the first day of full independence , but rather as a step in a gradual process . |
| 21 | The professor shall reside within the University ( i.e. within twenty-five miles of Carfax , the central point of Oxford ) during six months at least in each academical year , between the first day of October and the ensuing first day of August , and in particular during not less than six weeks of each term . |
| 22 | The professor shall reside within the University ( i.e. within twenty-five miles of Carfax , the central point of Oxford ) during six months at least in each academical year , between the first day of October and the ensuing first day of August . |
| 23 | As I walked to the hotel one of the Turkish rafters rushed towards me with a copy of Turkey 's most popular article about the first day of the trip with a picture of my good self and another British journalist , both wrapped in blankets looking forlorn . |
| 24 | A joint statement released after the first day of the summit stressed that both Germanys had to act responsibly , and take into account the concerns and interests of their neighbours and allies in East and West . |
| 25 | Women are given an expected delivery date that is calculated as 40 weeks ( 280 days ) after the first day of the last menstrual bleed . |
| 26 | This is easier if you 've kept a note of the date of the first day of your last period . |
| 27 | The letter quoted above was begun at Didcot Station , then continued at his Cowley Road digs , and rounded off at the end of the first day of the Scholarship exam after six hours of hard writing . |
| 28 | That summer the maternal grandmother 's gift of a Ramadan feast was brought without question to the family majlis , and the young Sheikh , his friends and I sat together for those last painful moments of the first day of Ramadan . |
| 29 | The brew was so potent that several journalists , who had planned to be ‘ upcountry ’ watching the metal fly , instead spent most of the first day of the election in bed . |
| 30 | These elections concluded the business of the first day of the Leeds Congress , on which , in the words of the preamble to the constitution of the BDDA : The Deaf and Dumb of Great Britain and Ireland agree[d] to form themselves into an Association for the advancement and protection of their interests in every possible way ( in such a manner as will not interfere with the work of the existing societies ) . |