Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] day [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On my first day the Prime Minister shook me by the hand . |
| 2 | On its first day the Congress , after acrimonious debate and procedural wrangling , rejected by only one vote a proposal to make the election of the Supreme Soviet Chairman one of its first agenda items . |
| 3 | That keeper of the flame , Sir Ralph Furse , to his dying day a believer in the administrative genius of his race , was advocating by 1942 that the territories of the coloured colonial empire be allowed ‘ to grow up into nations in free association with ourselves ’ . |
| 4 | His Spanish ADC , General Alava , however , remembered to his dying day the way his heart sank on hearing his Commander cheerfully giving orders for ‘ cold meat at dawn ’ before a long day 's reconnaissance , or perhaps a day 's hunting in Portugal with his ‘ family ’ . |
| 5 | To his dying day the young Count would not forget the fair hand which had tended him when none other had heeded his plight . |
| 6 | In his own day the two kinds of profession were by no means incompatible . |
| 7 | At the last minute the convention 's keynote speaker for Sunday 26 April was taken ill , and her replacement turned out to be Mr John Frohnmayer , the dismissed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who , although not scheduled to leave his post officially until a few days later , had actually worked his last day the previous Friday . |
| 8 | The decision to make this process possible by the foundation of colleges or universities and the financial maintenance of students has been taken , down through the ages , by the sources of munificence in each succeeding period , until in our own day the lion 's share is produced through public funds voted by central government and local authorities . |
| 9 | Yet it , too , was a registration of the triumph of European culture ; down to our own day the political life of the world has increasingly been debated in the terms forged by European history and in a European idiom . |
| 10 | At the time of the Han dynasty , when jade was still the only material fit to accompany the emperor , it was accompanied in the case of feudal lords and officials of grades 1–3 by pearls and in that of officials of grade 4 by gold.47 One indication of the status of pearls in Christendom is their use in iconography as symbols of regeneration , and the way they have long been used to enrich the crowns of sovereigns from the sacred crown of Hungary to the mitre crown of Catherine II of Russia and in our own day the State Crown of Queen Elizabeth II ( Frontispiece ; figs. 35 and 37 ) . |