Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] day [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This 18th-century sweet preserve was traditionally made for high days and holidays . |
| 2 | My father described to me how the Guides had arrived and gone straight into action after marching day and night from the Punjab ; how Nicholson had been killed leading the troops as they stormed the ramparts of Delhi . |
| 3 | After long days and nights alone I would wake in the mornings wondering if this new day would bring a new poem from you , a new smile as you ran dancing towards me on your boxer 's turned-in toes . |
| 4 | The questions which must be asked are : i Do specialist multi-agency dementia teams provide a model for the planning and provision of domiciliary day and respite care for all or for a proportion of the sufferers in a community ? |
| 5 | ‘ There seems no objection to Premier League clubs switching games to all sorts of strange days and times , ’ said Mr Corfe . |
| 6 | The combination of high precipitation , water surpluses , large number of wet days and low insolation experienced in highly oceanic areas is thought to increase the rate of growth and the competitive abilities of bryophytes , notably Sphagnum species , hypnoid mosses and Racomitrium ( Poore & McVean 1957 ) , all of which are very conspicuous in plant communities in the Western Isles . |
| 7 | We talked of old days and new ways — and living alone . |
| 8 | Steve Reid and I had a couple of free days and were eager to climb somewhere different . |
| 9 | Glendinning does not spell out the implications of her findings for service provision but they can be deduced : the importance of flexible day and domiciliary care ; good transport back-up . |
| 10 | Looking back , I seem to recall that summer of 1943 as a continuation of cloudless days and warm sunshine , with long pink and purple evenings filled with the roar and drone of aircraft taking off all round us . |
| 11 | But the morning faded into the light of common day and the sun was contending with a missle ( mist/drizzle ) . |
| 12 | An increasing number of educational days or events are being offered by bodies such as English Heritage at historic sites . |
| 13 | If you happen to stray into an area of mixed day and artificial lighting , say at a window-table in a café , beware ! |
| 14 | Just the thing for thinking up excuses for sick days and an ideal gift for the hypochondriac in your life . |
| 15 | During long days and as many nights , he drew , giving concrete expression to abstract ideas and reducing the results to their fundamentals . |
| 16 | Meat was a treat kept for good days and when the pickings were poor , Win and her daughter were lucky to have enough potatoes and bread and cheese in the pantry . |
| 17 | The unions followed the national day of action with regional days but these were badly supported and attracted little attention . |
| 18 | With downlighting day and night , the glass walls enable the public to view the whole interior from outside . |
| 19 | This outlined the familiar and depressing picture of existing services dominated by large , old , isolated hospitals with shortages of staff and amenities and with inadequate day and out-patient psychiatric facilities , and put forward plans for an overall improvement of services . |
| 20 | When he was seven , his mother revealed that the young lives of William and Harry were divided into Fun Days and Work Days . |
| 21 | New measures against the Church — including the confiscation of monastic property , further restrictions on provision of religious instruction and on publications , the removal of the last nuns from any form a social or educational work , and interference with holy days and with the form of school prayers — were guaranteed to stir up antagonism and unrest in Catholic regions . |
| 22 | Rather than dampen the festivities , the storm initiated a whole new cycle of tumult with ensuing days and nights of ritual cockfighting which took place beneath a hastily assembled palm-thatched enclosure in the centre of the Rante , observable by the throng from the protection of the slanting gables of the surrounding houses . |
| 23 | Whatever your circumstances , the point is that you should have enough money coming in in the Income column to meet the outgoings in the Expenditure column with , hopefully , a bit left over for rainy days and holidays . |
| 24 | Holders of this theory would suggest that syphilis was already established in Europe in pre-Columbian days and it was the increase in knowledge and the travel resulting from the Renaissance that made it appear as if a new disease had been introduced . |
| 25 | I sometimes think that if we were back in biblical days and John the Baptist was running around looking for a wilderness he would n't go to the desert he would come to Creggan ! |
| 26 | Most of the fleet dated from pre-war days and whilst overseas manufacturers could supply new cars , they were unduly sophisticated and prohibitively expensive . |
| 27 | It is understood representations have been made to the BBC over the issue in recent days but the matter remains unresolved , according to senior Church figures . |
| 28 | You raised a very , very significant issue that I have n't heard much addressed in recent days and we know that there has n't really been a super power of the Soviet Union and any other military sense for the last couple of years . |
| 29 | We read lot in recent days and weeks about refugees , mainly Vietnamese refugees . |
| 30 | In particular these London-wide resources have been used to provide facilities for children with special needs in specialist day and boarding schools . |