Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] days [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 2 Provide any dressing equipment needed for the early days after discharge .
2 But her own body told her a different story which , lying here for the long days of rest which had been prescribed for her , she had heard clearly enough through the bird-twitter of Linnet and her mother , and Tristan 's determined joviality .
3 SOME WAYS OF TRAVELLING are synonymous with luxury and romance and evoke nostalgic yearnings for the great days of travel when black tie was de rigueur as the traveller sauntered through Europe and Asia , or crossed the oceans .
4 Despite popular laments for the great days of Herbert Morrison and ‘ municipal socialism ’ on the LCC , such Tory bugbears as the Merseyside authority and the Greater London Council disappeared from the scene .
5 Given the strong emphasis on children with special educational needs during the early days of PNP it was not surprising that many collaborations concentrated their attention on these children .
6 Was this th during the early days of electricity in the in the area ?
7 Problems during the filming in Sweden included no official stills photographer to take publicity pictures during the early days of production , a fire at the hotel used by cast and crew , some film damaged during processing- and thick snow .
8 addresses the attitudes of successive governments towards scientific endeavour , ranging from active encouragement during the Napoleonic days to indifference in the post-Restoration era .
9 She had not before entered the Tower precincts , although its grim-visaged exterior as seen from the river , particularly during the dark days of winter , had frequently given her a sense of foreboding .
10 For the next week or two there would be work enough for the rivermen , and they would shoulder their way into the dining rooms during the coming days for mugs of steaming tea and coffee , thick bacon sandwiches and thick slices of new bread liberally coated with dripping .
11 Rebecca had silk slippers on her feet , with the device that the King had granted the Everards embroidered on them : it had amused her , during the serene days between squalls on the voyage from Plymouth , to sit on deck and stitch the image of the seamonster harnessed by the naked man , halfway up to his waist in water , while natives in feather skirts cavorted on the shore behind .
12 Chrysanthemums , poinsettia , corn , coffee and others flower during the shortening days of autumn and are known as short-day plants .
13 They include Body and Soul , a series about a disillusioned nun , and Head over Heels , a Fifties drama about the early days of rock 'n' roll .
14 So all through the anxious days of incubation until the dull-plumaged infants are fully fledged , he and the hen move about without even a whisper .
15 It is clear that the Authority adjusted its approach to INSET quite considerably after the early days of PNP and in the light of our sixth report and feedback from schools .
16 The barricades at the front had to be removed to stop everyone getting crushed and it brought back memories of the heady days of punk .
17 The result is the single most comprehensive account of the early days at Dovercourt .
18 Giving them and other first-time buyers a higher rate of tax relief for an initial period will help to ease the financial pressures of the early days of home ownership .
19 It 's an account of the early days of television — that has n't been done yet .
20 According to Consort Hotels ' David Sankey , the EC Package Directive ( Package Travel , Package Holiday and Package Tour Regulations 1992 ) , which came into effect on April 1 ( Hospitality , April 1993 ) , is a reminder of the early days of VAT .
21 Patrick decided to spend three of the intervening days with Timmy .
22 It seems sensible to take advantage of the good days in order to make allowance for any excess eating on the difficult days , and dieting calorie intake can be averaged out on a weekly basis .
23 Evidence of the stormy days of Viking rule abound , particularly on the island of Birsay , their fortress off the north-west coast of Mainland .
24 On the one hand he can support his understanding of the institutional expectations by simply repeating those inculcated practices he has learned as a neophyte from the ‘ stories of the great days of policing ’ , which are interminably repeated ‘ at the charge room desk ’ or ‘ taken on at Nellie 's knee ’ .
25 And of course , all of the ‘ stories of the great days of policing ’ , told ‘ at the charge room desk ’ were passed on to me by a series of venerable ‘ real polises ’ , who , in turn , had learned these structures of significance in their own formative years , often before the Second World War .
26 The success of Alain Aspect 's team in confirming experimentally one of the more subtle predictions of the theory ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 17 ) came just at the time when , in an echo of the great days of J. G. Crowther , The Guardian published Terry Clark 's report of an experiment in which a macroscopic object can be made to behave , in some respects , like a single quantum ‘ particle ’ , and when these weighty tomes arrived for review .
27 To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail .
28 If nostalgia for another age is high on the list then there are hotels of special quality and character which still offer the sort of service and ambience which were the hallmark of the grand days of travel .
29 The sunshine when she landed at Heathrow was a cruel reminder to Alyssia of the lazy days in France she had thought would never end .
30 It was full dawn , a silver-grey dawn of the late days of spring , and it was still cool by the water 's edge .
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