Example sentences of "[vb pp] on a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his Introduction to the Paston Letters J. Gairdner pointed out that letters were often dated as being written on a particular day of the week , say Monday or Wednesday , before or after such a celebration . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) In this Order — ’ allotted day ’ means any day ( other than a Friday ) on which the Bill is put down as first Government Order of the day , provided that a Motion for allotting time to the proceedings on the Bill to be taken on that day either has been agreed on a previous day , or is set down for consideration on that day ; ’ the Bill ’ means the Local Government Finance Bill . |
| 3 | Beyond the woods lay a valley and in the valley a lake , where the ruins of a fine Georgian house were reflected on a clear day . |
| 4 | Workmen 's and Schoolchildren 's tickets were sold in lots of six , a certain colour being used on a particular day . |
| 5 | In the US the most advanced clothes shops have computerised cash registers which monitor what garments have been sold on a given day . |
| 6 | The question then arises , at what price should a Treasury bill be sold on a given day ? |
| 7 | The Reformed Pastor was originally intended as a sermon to be preached on a fast day called by the Worcestershire Association of Ministers ( who looked to Baxter as their leader ) to seek God 's blessing on their pastoral work . |
| 8 | Gastric emptying was assessed on a different day after overnight fasting by means of 10 radioopaque markers ingested with a standard test meal . |
| 9 | Vincente Minnelli , a director of the old school and greatly renowned and respected for such classics as The Band Wagon and An American in Paris , was looking for a touch of modernism to attract a young audience to a rather old-fashioned film called On a Clear Day You Can See Forever . |
| 10 | To illustrate , suppose that all dividend payments are concentrated on a single day in each quarter . |
| 11 | There is an information centre , but its three staff will be stretched on a busy day , when Nielson expects more than 1,000 customers to pass through the store . |
| 12 | One swim I know on the Hampshire Avon near Ringwood can only be fished on a quiet day , when few other anglers are around . |
| 13 | As the event was filmed on a hot day in June Harry has to prepare a batch of duplicates , which awaited their call in the cool of the fruit room . |
| 14 | It had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 15 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme : it had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 16 | Fiction : You ca n't get burned on a cloudy day . |
| 17 | Then a party may be held on a different day , so there is a double celebration . |
| 18 | Other questions abounded on a delicious day . |