Example sentences of "of the [num ord] day " in BNC.

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1 One of the most colourful is in October , when the Festival of Nine Emperors is celebrated with 9 days of processions and Chinese operas culminating in a dramatic firewalking ceremony on the eve of the ninth day .
2 Anteriorly , the mesoderm beneath the headfold becomes organized into the heart ( Figure 1e ) which begins to contract rhythmically towards the end of the 9th day .
3 Furthermore , chimaeras have not been obtained from embryos injected before the middle of the 9th day of gestation , presumably because younger embryos are physically too small to be successfully penetrated , or to tolerate penetration .
4 Pamela was in her 4th year at St Hilda 's she was a devout member of the 7th Day Adventist Church and had planned to become a missionary in Japan after completing her University studies .
5 Gastrulation , in the sense of continued ingression through the streak , persists up to and during the 10th day of gestation , but towards the end of the 8th day the first signs of organogenesis are apparent .
6 For example , specific fractions of the 8th day embryo , left attached to the extra-embryonic region , have been grown in agar-coated dishes containing Dulbecco 's modified Eagle 's medium ( DMEM ) + 50% rat serum ( Section 6.1 ) .
7 At the end of the fifth day do not delay .
8 But by the morning of the fifth day , rider and horse became a team , and by that afternoon Artemis and her teacher went for a stiff ten-mile hack .
9 On the afternoon of the fifth day the unloading was completed .
10 This is easier if you 've kept a note of the date of the first day of your last period .
11 D J Mike Read and guest Cliff Richard will be on hand to capture the excitement of the first day and hopefully set the mood for a week of high quality tennis — and not a little fun !
12 He managed only 1.91 metres ( his best is 2.14 ) , went through the motions in the final event of the first day , and quit .
13 At the end of the first day 5 Airborne Brigade has achieved its objectives .
14 After the novelty of the first day , the omissions and the limitations of the rules governing the coverage are beginning to look more glaring .
15 The letter quoted above was begun at Didcot Station , then continued at his Cowley Road digs , and rounded off at the end of the first day of the Scholarship exam after six hours of hard writing .
16 By the end of the first day , Richards was on 200 and the score was 373 for 3 .
17 By the close of the first day , though , they had lost Broad , and Pat Pocock , going in as nightwatchman , had told the England physiotherapist Bernard Thomas that he had cleaned his teeth and gargled in case Thomas had to give him the kiss of life .
18 With West Indies 125 for 6 off fifty overs at the close of the first day , things looked good for England , but next morning Marshall and Dujon threw the bat and took the total to 178 , which in the conditions was not that bad .
19 Behind the circus atmosphere of the first day , however , there was a serious problem .
20 The good feelings of the first day soon disappeared in the second round though .
21 This procedure takes us through to the end of the first day .
22 Workers were brought in from all of the Eglinton properties to repair the damage of the first day and to improve the condition of the lists .
23 At the end of the first day Ruth presented herself to Mrs Carson .
24 With a sinking heart , Mildred moved miserably through all the chores of the first day , unpacking robes , arranging the new books in her desk , feeding the cat , and innumerable small tasks till at last it was bedtime .
25 That summer the maternal grandmother 's gift of a Ramadan feast was brought without question to the family majlis , and the young Sheikh , his friends and I sat together for those last painful moments of the first day of Ramadan .
26 At the end of the first day ( a long day , which had our reporters still scribbling at 10.20 pm ) , the chart had acquired two heartfelt anonymous complaints : ‘ Working with — not against ’ and ‘ Valuing everybody 's contribution ’ .
27 The brew was so potent that several journalists , who had planned to be ‘ upcountry ’ watching the metal fly , instead spent most of the first day of the election in bed .
28 At the end of the first day 's hearing before us we were told that W. 's condition had deteriorated rapidly since the hearing at first instance .
29 The clash of cultures was illustrated towards the end of the first day : ‘ Just tell us what the standards are that we should be aiming for ’ , a publisher demanded , fed up with what he called ‘ axe grinding ’ by manufacturers .
30 These elections concluded the business of the first day of the Leeds Congress , on which , in the words of the preamble to the constitution of the BDDA : The Deaf and Dumb of Great Britain and Ireland agree[d] to form themselves into an Association for the advancement and protection of their interests in every possible way ( in such a manner as will not interfere with the work of the existing societies ) .
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