Example sentences of "a sad day " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even some admirers were puzzled by the aggressively public way he has pursued it , the more so since he has been careful to acknowledge that there may not be enough rebels to defeat the Government 's legislation with — ‘ a sad day for me ’ — Labour 's help . |
| 2 | At that time that was a sad day for many people , the day he went to prison . |
| 3 | IT WAS a sad day for three long-standing members of the Government , writes Valerie Elliott . |
| 4 | 3rd March 1962 was a sad day which was not helped by the depressing weather prevailing at that time . |
| 5 | A sad day ! |
| 6 | I could not tolerate this for long and at the end of February last year I retired from Hall Automation ; a sad day . |
| 7 | A sad day . |
| 8 | One day , soon after he arrived in the dale he had reason to go to another farm and overheard a conversation between two old ladies.p They were lamenting that it was a sad day because outsiders were coming into the dale and taking over farms and was n't it a shame they could n't be let to locals . ’ |
| 9 | Shoreditch wishes Mr Love good luck over any polling card litigation ; but surely it 's a sad day when the suggestion that a socialist opposes mass slaughter is thought to be libellous ? |
| 10 | One described it as ‘ a sad day for the BBC ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ It will be a sad day when the camera replaces the umpire , ’ Bucknor said in response to the criticism . |
| 12 | If the OCU does not reform then it will be a sad day , at the very least this unique RAF institution should have been allowed to ‘ go out ’ in style rather than simply vanish out of the back door . |
| 13 | It would be a sad day , would n't it , if lawyers were only prepared to act in ‘ politically correct ’ cases . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It is a sad day . |
| 15 | 28th August 1930 was a sad day , as the islanders closed their doors for the last time . |
| 16 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |
| 17 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 18 | ‘ If Enya did say , ‘ I want to work with my husband from now on ’ , it would be a sad day , ’ says Nicky . |
| 19 | A SAD DAY AT HOCKENHEIM |
| 20 | It would be a sad day if it was thought that a change of mind on the part of a local authority in any question relating to children was an admission of past error . |
| 21 | Sir it would be a sad day if we determined matters of er greenbelt boundaries on the basis of relative screening . |
| 22 | I congratulated him , saying that I had no doubt it would be a good day for our foreign affairs but it was a sad day for British housing . |
| 23 | Having got this far there 's no reason why John Peel should n't continue for many years to come and it 'll certainly be a sad day if he ever does decide to hang up those headphones . |
| 24 | ‘ A sad day for me and for the community . ’ |
| 25 | It will be a sad day for Britain if the Union Jack falls to town hall tyrants who are completely up the pole . |
| 26 | Would it not be a sad day for this country if that attitude of mind took hold ? |
| 27 | I am conscious of the time , so I say only that it will be a sad day if the Government are allowed to change the legislation , not only for the miners and their communities or for those who , directly or indirectly , are involved in or seek employment in the industry , but for the whole of society . |
| 28 | This is a sad day for the final part of the Bill to be passing through the Houses of Parliament . |
| 29 | Bitterly disappointed by his defeat , Mr Davis said it was ‘ a sad day for the historic city ’ , and urged Derry City Council to ‘ look sympathetically ’ on the needs of the Unionist people on the cityside . |
| 30 | Yes , folks it 'll be a sad day , when it comes to the closure |