Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results were publicised during a two day exhibition at Keele University in November 1990 : the event , which included displays of the thematic maps and archival material , was promoted jointly by BGS , the North Staffordshire branch of the Geologists ' Association and the Institution of Geologists . |
| 2 | Last instructions given , and the operation arranged for the following day , the couple went away , and Robert said , ‘ It 's a pity , is n't it ? |
| 3 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 4 | Normally six cases will be listed for a half day , which would allow about 30 minutes per case if all the claimants attended , but a significant number do not . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Moreover , throughout the year the particular day of the week on which Innocents ' Day had fallen the previous year was also regarded as a black-letter day , and was also called Innocents ' Day . |
| 7 | Five target fish were nominated for the second day as the anglers struggled to overcome persistent torrential rain and buffeting winds . |
| 8 | Well over a hundred of Oxfordshire 's lowest paid and angriest health workers attended a mass meeting to hear that almost all the region 's clerical staff had voted for a one day strike . |
| 9 | My brother and I were booked for a 5 day course on Harperig Reservoir , with one instructor and a group of about 10 children . |
| 10 | This study was designed as an eight day randomised , crossover , double blind , placebo controlled trial . |
| 11 | The mood on Kinnock 's ‘ Red Rose ’ jet was subdued after a tiring day , most of his entourage and press contingent longing for bed . |
| 12 | Over 1200 biochemistry and haematology specimens were examined and reported in an eight day period in the laboratory of the Gilbert Bain Hospital , Lerwick . |
| 13 | Five and a half thousand men were killed and twenty-six thousand wounded on the blackest day of the American Civil War . |
| 14 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 15 | The admission by Hammersmith and Fulham was disclosed on the first day of a case brought by Anthony Hazell , the local district auditor . |
| 16 | Radio Venceremos , the FMLN 's broadcasting station , claimed on the same day that the armed forces had sustained 475 dead and 1,395 wounded . |
| 17 | Anne Marriner , 23 , admitted attempting to obtain property by deception and two counts of criminal damage all committed on the same day during January . |
| 18 | Police urged racegoers to be on their guard after six separate incidents of forged £20 notes were reported on the first day . |
| 19 | The Independent reported on the same day that control of Kuwait 's security and administration was in the hands of Ali Hasan al Majid , Iraq 's Minister of Local Government and architect of the government 's 1987-88 military campaign against Kurdish rebels . |
| 20 | The Press Trust of India news agency reported on the same day that the two sides had agreed to finalize arrangements for reopening consulates-general in Bombay and Shanghai . |
| 21 | The US press reported on the same day that the two men whose extradition was being sought , Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , had met for two days , earlier in May , with a leading Washington criminal defence attorney , Plato Cacheris . |
| 22 | President Jaime Paz Zamora was reported on the same day to have requested that the Congress authorize the presence of US troops in the eastern Beni region , and sought congressional approval for a law to support the presence of foreign troops in the future . |
| 23 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
| 24 | In the case of Henry VI , he was deposed on 4 March 1461 ( thus ending his 39th regnal year ) , to be succeeded on the same day by Edward IV . |
| 25 | The USSR Cabinet responded on the following day by banning all rallies in Moscow until April 15 . |
| 26 | A UK Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded on the same day by saying that it was for Iran to make the first gesture and that the UK would " not accept Iranian intervention in [ its ] internal affairs " . |
| 27 | They are not free-running — they are stabilized to a 24-hour day . |
| 28 | The Security Council voted on the same day to adopt Resolution 700 issuing guidelines to facilitate implementation of the international arms embargo against Iraq [ see p. 38165 ] . |
| 29 | Capobianco , who was a close associate of Paz Zamora , resigned on the following day , and was replaced by Carlos Armando Saavedra Bruno . |
| 30 | A Slovak without party affiliation , Ehrenberger replaced Theodor Petrik , who had resigned on the previous day . |