Example sentences of "year [conj] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chance inquiry into an old debt revealed that the building had never been fully consecrated and thus would revert to Assheton family ownership after a year and a day 's disuse . |
| 2 | It must be proved that the defendant 's act or omission caused the death of the victim within a year and a day . |
| 3 | The ‘ year and a day ’ rule is a legacy of times when medical science was so rudimentary that , if there was a substantial lapse of time between injury and death , it was unsafe to pronounce on whether the defendant 's conduct or some other event caused the death . |
| 4 | In principle , it seems unjust that a homicide conviction should not be possible in such a case , if all the other elements can be established and only the ‘ year and a day ’ rule stands in the way . |
| 5 | After a year and a day a hand-fast marriage can be broken , by the man or by the woman . |
| 6 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 7 | If he does n't do this within the deadline period you then have a year and a day in which to ask the court for an extract decree to be issued . |
| 8 | Expansion of their wealth depended upon drawing serfs away from the land to labour in the towns ( thus serfs who could remain hidden within town walls for a year and a day gained freedom from the land ) and on undermining those aristocratic privileges , such as control over roads , which inhibited commercial activity . |
| 9 | In a version of " The Unquiet Grave " collected from an old singer in 1906 the ghost of the dead lover returns after a year and a day and asks : |
| 10 | For a year and a day the boy did not work and hardly ever spoke but one day when he was watching his father fashion a sword for an important chief he exclaimed " That is not the way to do it " and taking the tools soon made a sword the like of which was never seen before , and so began the famous Islay swords . |
| 11 | The year and a day rule applies to this form of manslaughter as to the other ones : Coroner for Inner West London ex p De Luca [ 1988 ] 3 All ER 414 . |
| 12 | A year and a day ago he set light to number eight hangar at RAF Hullavington in Wiltshire . |
| 13 | Yesterday 's drama came a year and a day after the North Yorkshire shootings in which Special Constable Glenn Goodman was killed and PC Sandy Kelly badly wounded by a hail of bullets fired by on-the-run IRA terrorist Paul Magee . |
| 14 | One possible link between the Wakesfield and Tyneside incidents stems from the Gateshead gas depot explosion late on Tuesday night , a year and a day after an IRA killing in Yorkshire . |
| 15 | She 's a year and a day |