Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] days [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has , however , been some revival of the device , especially with modern private presses affecting a fondness for the past and for the great days of the colophon , beginning with the great Mainz Psalter of Fust and Schoeffer in 1457 . |
| 2 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 3 | For the two days of the show I cluck round them — soothing , calming , encouraging and reassuring . |
| 4 | No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex . |
| 5 | I recall one evening , during the early days of the campaign , when on three occasions on different channels ( an arts programme and two awards ceremonies ) public statements were made against the Clause . |
| 6 | As a medium it is supreme among the arts in its ability to portray the real world , hut it is in itself quite artificial , and it speaks to us by way of a pictorial language which first took shape during the early days of the silent cinema . |
| 7 | The obligation arising from the Pact of San Sebastian was reinforced during the early days of the Republic , when the Esquerra leader , Macià , was only persuaded to withdraw his proclamation of a ‘ Catalan Republic within a Spanish Federal Republic ’ by the promise of early action on the autonomy issue and the immediate concession of a regional government , the Generalitat ( Sp . |
| 8 | True , inflation has been brought down from around 30% a year during the gung-ho days of the disgraced party chief , Mr Zhao Ziyang , to single figures . |
| 9 | Perhaps they had discovered and used their secret love-nest during the lazier days of the summer . |
| 10 | When the Exchange Rate Mechanism was being created , during the final days of the last Labour Government , the then Prime Minister decided Britain could not take part . |
| 11 | It was only natural that anyone with a garage and mechanical knowhow would be tempted during the heady days of the Flea ‘ craze ’ to ‘ have a go ’ . |
| 12 | Finding a hot and filling breakfast that 's acceptable during the eight days of the Passover is n't easy . |
| 13 | He had been told that the Chairman had with a handgun shot dead a general who had dared to argue with his strategy during the dark days of the war . |
| 14 | ‘ We recall the long established principle of the UK Parliament , stretching back to 1860 and before , and reasserted even during the dark days of the Second World War , against taxing knowledge , reading , ideas and the demand for literacy and information . |
| 15 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 16 | Aurel Dragos Munteanu , appointed director of Romanian Television and Radio during the first days of the December revolution , resigned on Feb. 9 after widespread public criticism that he had manipulated broadcasting to benefit the NSF . |
| 17 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 18 | It is kin , often , who provide shelter during the first days in the town and who help the migrant build his/her own home . |
| 19 | John Glynn of Morval had been appointed Under-Steward to the Duchy of Cornwall during the disturbed days of the Wars of the Roses . |
| 20 | The giant brick structures were laid during the earliest days of the industrial revolution in Manchester , several decades before London got down to the task of comprehensive sanitation for its citizens . |
| 21 | All subjects were asked not to take any drug during the two days before the study . |
| 22 | He was said to have sniffed glue during the two days before the attack at a shop in Bath . |
| 23 | A large part of the world had special trading and investment relations with the UK stemming mainly from the ties forged during the earlier days of the Empire . |
| 24 | The last two had become prominent spokesmen for the families during the ten days since the removal of the children . |
| 25 | Mr Cross had chosen the ideal spot for his photography some three days earlier and the picture he wanted could only be taken during the ten days around the longest day when the sun came through a gap in the hills . |
| 26 | ‘ Thomas White , a tippler , for keeping shuffle board play ’ came before the Court during the stern days of the Commonwealth , while in 1666 were charged , ‘ John Parson , James his son , Stephen Parker and Sidney Randall for not going to church on the Lord 's day ’ . |
| 27 | Throughout the war ( except during the worst days of the blitz ) the Gallup Poll had been assessing the popularity of the government , and of Churchill himself as Prime Minister . |
| 28 | After operations against the Caroline Islands in June 1945 , 1771 's Mk 1s were involved in strikes on the Japanese mainland during the last days of the war — hence the map . |
| 29 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |
| 30 | Although this is partly a result of lower market share during the last days of The Sunday Correspondent , the IoS has made ground while its rival The Observer has not . |