Example sentences of "was [vb pp] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | A temporary ceasefire agreed on March 11 was broken the following day . |
| 2 | A week later parliament formally adopted a decree permitting the establishment of political parties , and the party was registered the following day . |
| 3 | On March 8 , Pará union leader Sebastiao Ribeiro de Silva was shot dead and another unionist , José Alves de Souza , was wounded the previous day . |
| 4 | However , it was reported the following day that talks had broken down and the employers had stopped the strikers ' wages . |
| 5 | Troops quickly dispersed the students , but further unrest was reported the following day , prompting the authorities to close down the country 's universities and colleges . |
| 6 | It was reported the following day , however , that the UAE delegation had broken off the talks . |
| 7 | The spokesman said that 10 NPFL fighters had died in the Vahun incident , and that all bodies had been buried , but it was reported the same day that Taylor had ordered that the bodies should be exhumed . |
| 8 | It was reported the same day that the UN military commander in Somalia , Brig. -Gen . |
| 9 | The alert , the first of its kind in the city , was cancelled the following day , when ozone fell to tolerable levels . |
| 10 | The patient was discharged the next day . |
| 11 | Kemp was discharged the same day , but Raynsford — the more seriously injured — was kept in by doctors until Monday . |
| 12 | Billy Neilson , a prominent Wear Valley councillor until last May 's Christopherian coup , was approached the other day by someone seeking to set up a small business in Sunderland . |
| 13 | The decision was attacked the following day by Drazen Budisa , chairman of the opposition Croatian Social Liberal Party ( HSLS ) , who complained that " several thousands of inhabitants of Vukovar imprisoned in Serbian camps " and " tens of thousands of Croats from Central Bosnia about whom we have no information " would be unable to obtain their Croatian nationality and thus the right to vote . |
| 14 | ‘ Listen — you know how worried she sounded when she was interviewed the other day ? |
| 15 | Before either her mother or Lydia had the opportunity for a quiet chat with Martha , the even tenor of life in the kitchen was disrupted the following day , by the arrival of Tamar . |
| 16 | Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] . |
| 17 | At his insistence he was seen the same day , and exhaustive examination failed to reveal any abnormality . |
| 18 | Same as labour was done the other day . |
| 19 | The clause on which they finally agreed and which was adopted the next day as part of the constitution , read instead : Persons who can hear , taking an active interest in the welfare or education of the deaf and dumb , shall be eligible for admission to ordinary membership on the recommendation of five ordinary members of the Association . |
| 20 | The young dog was shot the next day . |
| 21 | The headline in the London Evening Standard 's report — I 'm sorry , says man on murder charge — was transformed the next day into the more familiar story of girl hitch-hiker getting herself into trouble . |
| 22 | Hair that was washed the previous day will be easier to style |
| 23 | He was buried the following day under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard , an Austrian Nazi who befriended him in Brazil and gave him his identity papers before returning to Vienna . |
| 24 | He died in London 13 January 1613 , and was buried the next day at All Saints the Less . |
| 25 | It was agreed the next day that I was run down . |
| 26 | The official opening ceremony was attended by our customers — and potential clients — and by the Bishop of Warrington and local MPs , whilst the building was opened the following day for staff and their families . |
| 27 | On Soviet television on Sept. 4 Shevardnadze ( a Georgian ) called on Gamsakhurdia to " restore dialogue " with his opponents , but was accused the next day by Gamsakhurdia of being " an enemy of Georgia " , involved with Sigua and Khoshtaria in a " plot " organized by the " communist mafia " . |
| 28 | I was taken into hospital with high blood pressure the day after doing my last two pictures for the British Hairdressing Awards and Isha was born the following day . |
| 29 | And I was born the same day . |
| 30 | She was born the same day in 1877 that Alexander Graham Bell launched his first telephone company and became a teacher when just 13 . |