Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Thinker , already a winner of the race , stands at 20-1 , but he is difficult to train and even more difficult to catch on the right day . |
| 2 | The proclamation will have summoned the Parliament to meet on a specified day and it is up to the victors to turn up on that day at the time prescribed . |
| 3 | She pushed her inner chaos to the back of her mind and tried to concentrate on the coming day . |
| 4 | But I have also come to realise that standing as still as you must while waiting for your chance to come on a frosty day is not exactly the height of pleasure . |
| 5 | Once the messenger reached his destination he delivered the mandate to the judges who then proceeded to summon the parties to appear on a stated day at a stated place . |
| 6 | The previous autumn , the muggy monsoon heat had begun to diminish on the very day following the festival of Dusshera . |
| 7 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 8 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 9 | He might have had to explain why he 'd put a Fax machine out here for the sheep to use on a quiet day . |
| 10 | A few of the players such as Jim McKeever and Phil Stuart reside in Belfast but all are expected to be in Dublin not only to be feted but to cheer on the present day Oak Leaf county heroes . |
| 11 | If they do attempt to fly on a windy day , then a check flight should be made to ensure that they remember the hazards and how to avoid them . |
| 12 | For default summonses , " sufficient time " means sufficient time for the defendant to deliver a defence , admission or counterclaim within fourteen days after delivery of the summons , and sufficient time in the case of fixed date summonses for him to attend on the return day ( Ord 7 , r 18(3) ) . |
| 13 | Still more horrors — if rugby under the new law is difficult to play and to control on a dry day in South Africa , imagine the effect in marshy old England in the mud and rain of January ; imagine the shambles the game will become at the lower levels in those conditions with the sanctuary of the next scrum no longer available to the team carrying the ball . |
| 14 | Paul stared at the reeds in the narrow river ; the Clyde wound here like a country stream , and up the grass incline women hung out washing or spread it to dry on a fine day . |
| 15 | That second night in the porch was enough and I resolved to move on the following day , whatever happened . |
| 16 | They were ready to move on the appointed day and , at the end of the summer , they would begin the trek back to the village on their own , as soon as they smelt the smoke of the bonfires in which the thatch and the bedding from the shielings were destroyed , for reasons which today we might classify as ‘ environmental health ’ , but which , to the young folk of the shieling , was almost a ritual . |
| 17 | Suppose that it is known that a certain event is to occur on a certain day , but may take place at only one of two possible times , namely , 12.00 noon or 12.00 midnight . |