Example sentences of "in a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a modern day Sleeping Beauty , set in New York , he wakes a medieval princess with a kiss . |
| 2 | These sites have now become , in a modern day , highly decayed masses of rotten chemicals , seeping into the Earth ; the sites have become highly dangerous , highly toxic , and in some cases , because of methanes produced by decaying masses , explosive . |
| 3 | ‘ Bright Night in a Dark Day ’ is a lead and copper floor sculpture , and ‘ The Cube of Man ’ is a column of hexagonal lead boxes lined in gold leaf . |
| 4 | COME ALONG AND JOIN IN A FUN-PACKED DAY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR ALL AGES |
| 5 | He recommends that you add up approximately how many tokens you think your child will earn in a typical day if he/she does the little chores you require and behaves in the manner you are trying to encourage . |
| 6 | The book opens with a narrative passage evoking first the scenes in a typical day early this century , leading up to the arrival of the first train at Craven Arms , and then a poignant shorter evocation of the way things looked shortly after the closure . |
| 7 | It 's called time , it gives you a little space at the top so you can fill in what you feel to be your role , and if you can fill below , all the tasks in respective order that you do in a typical day . |
| 8 | In a rich day of piping and drumming , the R.U.C . |
| 9 | With Stephen Pears injured , Ironside has a chance to share in a momentous day in the club 's history . |
| 10 | With Stephen Pears injured , Ironside has a chance to share in a momentous day in the club 's history . |
| 11 | He argued : ‘ Three men , each standing for two two-hour sessions in a six-hour day would give better service than two men sharing the burden uninterrupted throughout the day . ’ |
| 12 | The rule says : ‘ Over rates shall be assessed on 15 overs per hour , i.e. a minimum of 90 overs in a six-hour day , subject to the following deductions . ’ |
| 13 | That now seemed long ago : and before even that the far past of his proposal — like a holiday which disappears from all feelings in a mere day or so . |
| 14 | He was ‘ permitted to put in a long day 's work for his Master , and it can be truly said that he gave his best ’ . |
| 15 | And my poor Clemence was about as helpless a female as you 'd find in a long day 's march . ’ |
| 16 | She originally came from the Potteries , but now lives near Southend-on-Sea where she teaches in a special day school for children with learning difficulties . |
| 17 | In order to try and get a ‘ Northern English accent ’ , Dustin went to see the Beatles in A Hard Day 's Night about a dozen times determined to ‘ sound like those guys ’ . |
| 18 | This , this poem 's called Dancing Feet Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet erm and , if you , if you take , were oops trying to pay particular attention to , if you can see the geese in , in this one here , there 's a fate , there 's a , there 's a forfeit which is missing , what 's going on and er , and the reason well in fact er which , which was er very much a vocal point for me in , in that painting |
| 19 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 20 | put it in the shop window in New York on St Patrick 's Day along with forty shades of green paperweights , the lacquered shillelaghs , and the wonderful world of deedeelee eedeelee eedeelee Irishness ; skipping dancing jolly little leprechauns in bright buckled shoes and battered hatted bow legged bright red drunken faced gombeen men with little devils in their laughing Irish eyes , mischievous gossipy white haired old women with shawls , pure white skinned colleens skipping carefree through green fields dutifully ready to return in an instant to domestic chores , strapping athletic lads with fine belts and sturdy boots ever willing to put in a fair day 's work or hit each other a clout . |
| 21 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
| 22 | The price of gold plunged 7% in a single day immediately after the Gulf war broke out — evidently on hopes that the war would be brief . |
| 23 | Not only that , but one imagines such huts to be found in the very heart of the wilderness , where one can not ascend a peak and walk out in a single day , and must take shelter for the night . |
| 24 | In a single day , without leaving the ridge , a fit walker can pick off seven Munros and stagger back home to an orgy of peak-ticking at the back of the Munro book . |
| 25 | The horseshoe ridge that Ben Lawers dominates can be knocked off in a single day if you have legs of iron , but for a more leisurely exploration of the hills , Glen Lyon is where to pick off Meall a' Choire Leith , Meall Garbh , and the more distant Meall Greigh that turns the horseshoe into an S-shape . |
| 26 | Stafford , who sometimes spent £16,000 in a single day on antiques at Christie 's sales in London , was never troubled by his conscience . |
| 27 | Recently , three ferox weighing over 20lb were taken in a single day . |
| 28 | A force of 4000 men , landing on either side of the Cowes river and marching on Newport should , he estimated , be sufficient to secure the Isle of Wight in a single day . |
| 29 | On 26 February six of the bombers were destroyed and seven badly damaged in a single day . |
| 30 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |