Example sentences of "the [adj] day a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day a telephone message advised him his services were no longer required . |
| 2 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 3 | On the same day , work began on reconstructing and rebuilding telecommunications buildings and the following day a campaign was launched to repair damaged roads and bridges . |
| 4 | The statement prompted on the following day a message from UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd expressing surprise at its content . |
| 5 | The following day a fleet of Skodas transports us west across Czechoslovakia to Adrspach . |
| 6 | There is , for instance , no recorded order to seize Rivers ' land , but its forfeiture was effective by 28 May ( when money from it was paid into the exchequer ) and on the following day a steward was appointed for the earl 's Norfolk land . |
| 7 | There is , for instance , no recorded order to seize Rivers ' land , but its forfeiture was effective by 28 May ( when money from it was paid into the exchequer ) and on the following day a steward was appointed for the earl 's Norfolk land . |
| 8 | On the following day a statement was made in the Daily Worker embodying the Comintern declaration and correcting the previous statement of policy . |
| 9 | The following day a relative came to the village and said that my mother had died of shock soon after reaching her cousin 's house . |
| 10 | But the previous day a judge had adjourned the trial of Winnie Mandela , wife of the ANC 's leader , who faces charges of kidnapping and assault . |
| 11 | On Dec. 18 most Moldavian deputies staged a walkout because representatives of the separatist Gagauz and Dnestr Russian communities were taking part in the Congress as guests ( on the previous day a rally against the treaty in Kishinev , Moldavia 's capital , had attracted up to 200,000 people ) . |
| 12 | On July 15 the Iranian Foreign Ministry protested about the action of some 230 United Kingdom members of parliament ( MPs ) in signing on the previous day a statement supporting the exiled National Council of Resistance , which was dominated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq . |
| 13 | And talking of police , it 's a dead cert that the very day a Neighbourhood Watch leaflet arrives , detailing all the recent burglaries in your area , is the one day you find yourself alone in the house . |
| 14 | The first day a battalion moved in , the Provost Sergeant would march to the market cross , accompanied by drummers and fifers who then started playing to attract attention . |
| 15 | The first day a tyre burst with such a loud crack I thought someone was shooting at us . |
| 16 | It comes on the same day a consortium , including Central , took financial control of ITV 's national news service , ITN . |
| 17 | On the same day a water bill was approved which covered water-related projects in 17 western states . |
| 18 | On the same day a committee was established to verify the mandate of each delegate . |
| 19 | On the same day a Shop Window 92 Shore Event will take place in front of Middlesbrough Civic Centre , including a march and displays by the Royal Marine Band of the Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | On the same day a ceremony was held in Berlin at which the three Western generals at the Allied Kommandatura ( the Soviet union having withdrawn from the four-power control commission in 1948 ) relinquished their responsibility for the city , while the four powers held a joint ceremony at the Glienecke Bridge between East and West Berlin . |
| 21 | Hong Kong 's partially elected Legislative Council passed on the same day a motion calling for amendments , particularly to increase provisions for democratic representation and to limit the circumstances in which emergency powers could be assumed by the Chinese authorities . |
| 22 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 23 | On the same day a group of 26 Federal Assembly deputies sent a protest to the European Commission for Human Rights about the method of screening used , which was described as being carried out without proper legal basis . |
| 24 | The same day a woman lost a finger after her ring was caught in machinery at the Sun Valley poultry firm in Hereford . |
| 25 | Later the same day a meeting in Brussels of EC Foreign Ministers ( excluding Dumas who was not present ) declared that they " regret to have to conclude that the conditions for a new European initiative do not exist " . |
| 26 | The other day a friend described another woman to me as ‘ a typical social worker , you know , all Freud and knitted lentils ’ . |
| 27 | Only the other day a leader of the student movement in Prague said that the first letter of support they had received from abroad after baptising the revolution in their blood on November 17 was from him , with the signatures of four other Soviet Academicians . |
| 28 | The other day a woman rang from as far away as — ’ Ashley stopped , aware of chattering again . |
| 29 | For two days after their conversation Ruth did not see the woman , and then on the third day a man leaned over from the upper deck and called out to her . |
| 30 | On the seventeenth day a letter came from the school . |