Example sentences of "[art] [adj] day [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the year , Mrs Thatcher was in the chair of a new cabinet committee , Misc. 141 , which had been given the task of preparing for the fast-approaching day when limits would be set on greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 2 | It is perhaps not strictly correct to call it an ‘ old ’ contradiction for , in the pre-NHS days when solo practice was the norm and many GPs also did hospital work , the tension between medical care as technical work and as supportive counselling was relatively unimportant . |
| 3 | Noel Malcolm contemplates the disease-ridden days when doctors did n't have a clue and did more harm than good |
| 4 | I remember the old days when layouts were readable , ZZAP ! cost under two quid and a packet of polos were still ten pence . |
| 5 | On Sunday we went on our 2nd sight-seeing trip , to Huaching Hot Springs , a historic ‘ spa ’ patronised by emperors in the old days when Sian was the capital of China . |
| 6 | It 's not like the old days when people lived in villages and knew whose great-great-grandad was a horse thief or whatever . |
| 7 | ‘ Things are a far cry from the old days when purchasing was perceived as a routine activity governed by rules and procedures . |
| 8 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 9 | In the early days both methods co-existed for some time in Great Britain , but the adherents of each method campaigned against one another here and elsewhere in Europe until towards the close of the nineteenth century , when oralism for the time being triumphed in all European countries . |
| 10 | Support from within the group was also vital , particularly in the early days when alienation from the main group of Public Health Nurses was inevitable due to the difference in focus involved in getting the job done . |
| 11 | Tory group leader Coun John Hale said : ‘ It all stems back to the early days when people were encouraged not to pay and the momentum has built up from this . ’ |
| 12 | Lady Braithwaite spoke of her memories of the early days when Molly and her mother were even then busy trying to find suitable material in the right shad of blue for Medau tunics . |
| 13 | It is a long flight from the early days when pilots taking off from Cricklewood in North London looked out of the cockpit and saw the number sixteen bus overtaking them . |
| 14 | The mutiny ended the following day when government forces regained control of the camp and arrested 45 of the rebel soldiers . |
| 15 | And was to remain so — if truth is to be told — until the early dawn of the following day when Morse left her to walk slowly to his bachelor flat — only a short distance away up the Banbury Road — bareheaded in the beating rain which an hour since had obliquely streaked the windows of Sheila Williams 's front bedroom . |
| 16 | This division was aggravated on the following day when Obuchi chose to fill all executive positions within the faction with his supporters , thereby declining to make even a gesture of reconciliation towards his opponents . |
| 17 | Little did they know that French , together with hard-working ARFU executive Bob Fordham , had been working for over 12 hours attempting to salvage the Wallaby tour after pre-tour conditions , such as the non-playing of national anthems , were inexplicably ignored at Ellis Park the previous day when South Africa celebrated its return to international rugby against the All Blacks . |
| 18 | There was further disruption in the Lok Sabha on Aug. 14 as Congress ( I ) members protested against events the previous day when BJP workers were alleged to have attacked Scindia 's house in New Delhi . |
| 19 | On Jan. 30 a draft-dodger died in hospital from a gunshot wound sustained the previous day when paratroopers tried to detain him in Vilnius . |
| 20 | During the three days when Cresson was ricocheting between Matignon and the Elysee , arguing her case and fighting to stay in office , she maintained her usual impeccable Parisian tenue de ville , hair and make-up perfectly in order at all times . |
| 21 | In Casey 's pub , now over 100 years old and a popular haunt for fishermen and folk musicians , the proprietors , sisters Joan and Anne Casey , recalled the happier days when visitors packed the Lake Hotel , which was run by their parents , and the Melvin . |
| 22 | There are the good days when things work out well and the whole world seems sunny , and the bad days when a depressing bug refuses to give up its secrets . |
| 23 | This was discussed at the beginning of the previous chapter , but it needs to be stated again that there seem to be comparatively few and small areas on the shelves at the present day where sediment is actively accumulating . |
| 24 | And on 11 October last year , the very day when Dr John Vane 's award was announced , Current Contents ( vol 25 , no 41 , p 22 ) carried as its ‘ citation classic ’ Vane 's 1977 paper on the production of prostacyclin by human blood vessels . |
| 25 | Gone are the happy days when Barry and Terry were verbal sparring partners . |
| 26 | All went well until the dreadful day when Killigrew was away and a letter arrived for Mistress A. Killigrew . |
| 27 | The urinary catheter was not removed until the fourth day when Mr Reynolds was able to walk to the toilet with the help of the nurse . |
| 28 | I needed to call up the heroic days when Dennis was still around , and we were young and carefree , bonking our brains out while he shouted banalities from the foot of the stairs . |
| 29 | The last two releases in the Kings Quest series received a fairly mixed reception , and since the heady days when Sierra WERE GRAPHIC ADVENTURES there have been some very strong releases from the likes of Lucasfilms ( Loom , Secret of Monkey Island I and II , Indiana Jones ) , Westwood ( Legend of Kyrandia ) , and even some of the Role Playing Games from Origin ( Ultima VII and Ultima Underworlds ) and Sir Tech ( Crusaders of the Dark Savant ) . |
| 30 | Sunday was the only day when Joan 's routine was sufficiently fixed for me to know what she was doing . |