Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gorbachev on the same day described Iraq 's invasion as treacherous and a blatant violation of international law , calling for a political solution and warning of a possible " chain reaction endangering the whole world community " . |
| 2 | In a further debate in the Bundestag on the same day , Hans-Jochen Vogel , leader of the Social Democrats , accused the government of incomprehensible slowness in its reaction to intelligence reports and of damaging West Germany 's reputation abroad . |
| 3 | In industrial protests in other regions six Civil Guards and eight miners were hurt and six miners were arrested on Feb. 7 during a demonstration in León , while a policeman and four workers from a shoe factory were injured in Valencia on the same day . |
| 4 | Temel Cingoz ( who died four days later ) , and for the shooting dead of Maj.-Gen. ( retd ) Ismail Selen in Ankara on the same day . |
| 5 | Zaidie and Matadial were the most important Crown witnesses to the facts , or alleged facts , which preceded and followed the shooting and the statements were one made by Zaidie to the police on 12 January 1987 , the day after the shooting , one by Matadial on the same day and an addendum by Matadial made on 9 May 1987 . |
| 6 | The fact that they arranged for a petition from the inhabitants of Southwark , complaining about those who had welcomed the Palatines , to be presented to the Commons on the same day that they brought in the bill of repeal , suggests that contemporary politicians ( unlike some modern-day historians ) did believe that popular pressure could have a powerful impact on events at Westminster . |
| 7 | The new Cabinet was approved by the Dáil on the same day . |
| 8 | In a speech to housebuilders in Atlanta on the same day Bush said that " the 1990s must be another decade of lower taxes and lower interest rates " . |
| 9 | Six metal beer kegs loaded on to a Swiss bound goods train which had stopped at Strasbourg on the same day the vagrant had claimed to be there . |
| 10 | Providing a nostalgic look back to the days of World War One were the Great War Combat Team , who were ideally suited to this venue , flying three SE.5a replicas , Fokker D.VII G-BBFPL , Fokker Triplane N152JS along with Robin Bowes ‘ guesting ’ in Fokker Triplane G-ATJM , the latter failing to sell at the Onslow 's Auction that was held at Rendcomb on the same day ( see page 30 ) . |
| 11 | Merseyside police launched a nationwide manhunt for Mr Ashworth on the same day former girlfriend Denise Johnston was found strangled at the Lion Tavern , Liverpool . |
| 12 | President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani on the same day dismissed the reports as " mendacious propaganda and blackmail " , saying : " We must make America understand that today one can not use the deceitful weapon of disarmament to threaten other countries and to interfere in their affairs . " |
| 13 | To Hugh le Despenser on the same day , he expressed similar views and put himself at Despenser 's disposal as an intermediary with Charles IV . |
| 14 | Thessy would follow on the weekend ferry , arriving at Grand Bahama on the same day as the senator 's twins . |
| 15 | The Russian Federation 's Congress of People 's Deputies had decided on April 5 to create a new , directly elected executive president of the Republic , an idea already overwhelmingly endorsed by a republican referendum held in March on the same day as the all-union referendum on the preservation of the USSR [ see pp. 38079 ; 38130-31 ] . |
| 16 | Tickets will go on sale to Essex CCC members at the County Ground in Chelmsford on the same day , March 22 . |
| 17 | Brunel then prepared some guide-lines , which were approved by the other judges and sent to the assessors by Buckler on the same day . |
| 18 | The Boy Looked At Johnny , the now alarmingly naive book he 'd written with Julie Burchill ( soon to become a temporary Mrs Parsons ) had caused a splash , and both writers resigned from the NME on the same day . |
| 19 | Two students were killed on March 23 during anti-government demonstrations in the town of Merida , 600 km south-west of Caracas , and there were violent incidents in the Caracas suburb of Los Teques on the same day . |
| 20 | Hall reported to Palmerston on the same day that he had met the architects ‘ in conclave ’ to discuss the competition conditions , and was happy to say that he had arranged them very satisfactorily . |
| 21 | Speaking at a press conference at the UN in New York on the same day , Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky gave the Soviet Union 's first public disclosure of its total foreign troop strength , putting the figure at 627,000 . |
| 22 | Newspapers received phone calls to the effect that the shooting was the work of the left-wing Dev-Sol group , which also claimed responsibility for killing a policeman in the southern town of Adana on the same day . |
| 23 | In Arkansas on the same day black Republican Kenneth Harris won 86 per cent of the vote to defeat self-styled " white supremacist " Ralph Forbes in a run-off for the Republican nomination for lieutenant-governor . |
| 24 | A general strike began in Baku on the same day . |
| 25 | The first planes of this airlift arrived in Beletuen on the same day . |
| 26 | A report published in London on the same day by the human rights organization Amnesty International claimed that over 200 people arrested in late 1990 had died or been executed in military or police custody . |
| 27 | The fact that the US announced its continuing if not open-ended assistance for the French in Vietnam on the same day as the Schuman plan began Germany 's rehabilitation in Europe was , obviously , a coincidence in spite of any gratitude which the US might have felt for this imaginative and , at the same time , practical French gesture . |
| 28 | The dynamiting of a pipeline between the north-western towns of Segovia and Zaragoza on the same day , reportedly by the ELN , killed three children and wounded eight other people . |
| 29 | As president of the LDP Miyazawa on the same day made changes in the party leadership . |
| 30 | He was pictured in the Sun kissing his girlfriend Karen Levy on the same day that the club held a third anniversary memorial service for 95 fans who died in the Hillsborough disaster . |