Example sentences of "[art] [adj] day a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example … / in the old days a man of my standing would never have gone to the shops ; everything would be sent to his house : grain , chillies , cotton , cloth . |
| 2 | In the old days a man could be left to languish in prison uncharged and forgotten . |
| 3 | She spoke recently of the strain of the six days a week work schedule that she said had left her shattered . |
| 4 | ‘ In the early days a woman stand-up comic was not really accepted . |
| 5 | The following day a telephone message advised him his services were no longer required . |
| 6 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 7 | On the same day , work began on reconstructing and rebuilding telecommunications buildings and the following day a campaign was launched to repair damaged roads and bridges . |
| 8 | The statement prompted on the following day a message from UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd expressing surprise at its content . |
| 9 | The following day a fleet of Skodas transports us west across Czechoslovakia to Adrspach . |
| 10 | There is , for instance , no recorded order to seize Rivers ' land , but its forfeiture was effective by 28 May ( when money from it was paid into the exchequer ) and on the following day a steward was appointed for the earl 's Norfolk land . |
| 11 | There is , for instance , no recorded order to seize Rivers ' land , but its forfeiture was effective by 28 May ( when money from it was paid into the exchequer ) and on the following day a steward was appointed for the earl 's Norfolk land . |
| 12 | On the following day a statement was made in the Daily Worker embodying the Comintern declaration and correcting the previous statement of policy . |
| 13 | The following day a relative came to the village and said that my mother had died of shock soon after reaching her cousin 's house . |
| 14 | But the previous day a judge had adjourned the trial of Winnie Mandela , wife of the ANC 's leader , who faces charges of kidnapping and assault . |
| 15 | On Dec. 18 most Moldavian deputies staged a walkout because representatives of the separatist Gagauz and Dnestr Russian communities were taking part in the Congress as guests ( on the previous day a rally against the treaty in Kishinev , Moldavia 's capital , had attracted up to 200,000 people ) . |
| 16 | On July 15 the Iranian Foreign Ministry protested about the action of some 230 United Kingdom members of parliament ( MPs ) in signing on the previous day a statement supporting the exiled National Council of Resistance , which was dominated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq . |
| 17 | There was once in the olden days a giant who lived on Penhill who had all below him in the dale in his thrall . |
| 18 | And talking of police , it 's a dead cert that the very day a Neighbourhood Watch leaflet arrives , detailing all the recent burglaries in your area , is the one day you find yourself alone in the house . |
| 19 | The first day a battalion moved in , the Provost Sergeant would march to the market cross , accompanied by drummers and fifers who then started playing to attract attention . |
| 20 | The first day a tyre burst with such a loud crack I thought someone was shooting at us . |
| 21 | Thence it moves into existing management training — and every manager gets at least five days a year about managing people , in addition to the five days a year basic training that every IBMer is supposed to have . |
| 22 | It comes on the same day a consortium , including Central , took financial control of ITV 's national news service , ITN . |
| 23 | On the same day a water bill was approved which covered water-related projects in 17 western states . |
| 24 | On the same day a committee was established to verify the mandate of each delegate . |
| 25 | On the same day a US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit overturned the five-count criminal conviction handed down in June 1990 on John Poindexter , President Reagan 's national security adviser in 1985-6 , for his role in the scandal [ see p. 37525 ] . |
| 26 | On the same day a Shop Window 92 Shore Event will take place in front of Middlesbrough Civic Centre , including a march and displays by the Royal Marine Band of the Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | On the same day a ceremony was held in Berlin at which the three Western generals at the Allied Kommandatura ( the Soviet union having withdrawn from the four-power control commission in 1948 ) relinquished their responsibility for the city , while the four powers held a joint ceremony at the Glienecke Bridge between East and West Berlin . |
| 28 | On the same day a series of articles against the king were presented . |
| 29 | Hong Kong 's partially elected Legislative Council passed on the same day a motion calling for amendments , particularly to increase provisions for democratic representation and to limit the circumstances in which emergency powers could be assumed by the Chinese authorities . |
| 30 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |