Example sentences of "[verb] to the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or as time travellers returning to the present day from the future . |
| 2 | The next day at lunch he referred to the previous day as bringing " tears in the morning and tears at night . " |
| 3 | Even the idea that criminals are physically distinguishable has continued to be pursued to the present day ( Hartl et al. , 1982 ) , although it later took the form of relating types of body build to personality types . |
| 4 | Following the introduction of civil penalties for late filing of accounts from 1 July ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 85 ) , Companies House has confirmed that the periods allowed for the filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period . |
| 5 | What a strange statement has come from Companies House confirming that the periods allowed for filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 98 ) . |
| 6 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 7 | Giner adds that this phenomenon , common to the Southern European states , continues to be felt to the present day . |
| 8 | Poverty among older women in Britain has endured to the present day , despite the significant political commitment given to pensions in the 1970s , which culminated in the legislation in 1975 introducing the state earnings-related pension ( SERP ) scheme and in the series of pledges to uprate pensions in line with earnings or prices whichever was the greater ( Walker , 1985a ) , policies which did result in some improvement in the relative position of older people in the national income distribution ( see below ) . |
| 9 | Welcome to the first day of Henley Royal Regatta on the banks of the Thames . |
| 10 | What happened to the 12 days of Christmas ? |
| 11 | Ex exactly the same as going to the present day . |
| 12 | So look where 's he going to the next day ? |
| 13 | I do n't think we 've got to the early days , made too many assumptions from this , particularly as they are seasonality er erm adjustment is n't terribly good . |
| 14 | It has preserved to the present day its architectural setting and character , and its medieval town walls ( twelfth and fifteenth century ) are an exceptionally complete example of their period . |
| 15 | For the time the first pioneers arrived to the present day , the white man has felt compelled to tame the desert , to reduce its primeval vastness to human dimensions . |
| 16 | Jack shook off his dream about Death Row and remembered that all over Dublin today there would be people waking to the first day of term . |
| 17 | Although the case collapsed and Docherty admitted telling ‘ a pack of lies ’ in court , it opened up damaging wounds within Manchester United , and created a climate of fear and loathing among leading players that stretches to the present day . |
| 18 | Such sources are valuable for the wide-ranging data they provide and , particularly , for the historical dimension they add to primary data that is necessarily bound to the present day . |
| 19 | The flood story in Babylonia is also known from a Sumerian text telling virtually the same tale , though more briefly , and many Sumerian compositions refer to the distant days of the flood or before . |
| 20 | There were more Goblin tribes still loyal or too afraid to desert , but even they were few compared to the great days of conquest . |
| 21 | THE pressures on the conductor Mark Wigglesworth seem considerable — his career constantly compared to the early days of Simon Rattle , and the rising star tag firmly attached to his travelling bag . |
| 22 | By the end of this stage , social productivity and economic efficiency would have increased at least two-fold compared to the present day . |
| 23 | Compared to the previous day this is a short walk whether you choose the high or low route . |
| 24 | er is not a possibility of having more open days so that general public can come in to see what 's happening and not only advertise in Harlow but advertise I live in Bishop 's Stortford now in the surrounding districts erm time gets although you said you get fifty per cent of people coming from outside of Harlow it does n't matter where the people come from as long as they come so more open days free erm to get people to come in and er particularly er outside people also I would suggest that the er chairman 's of the local district council 's who are not contributing be invited to the open day to see what er the playhouse is doing for the people who live in there er council area 's to see whether we can get some more supports er as a Stortford resident I 'd be quite happy to add a bit on my community charge to go to the playhouse . . |
| 25 | However , we must return to the present day . |
| 26 | An approach more suited to the present day is advocated by the UK Energy Efficiency Office which promotes the view that greater efficiency in energy use can play a major rôle is raising industry 's profitability . |
| 27 | In stamping the image of the ‘ dark , satanic mills ’ on English consciousness , he articulated a deep-rooted aversion to industry that has persisted to the present day . |
| 28 | Thus in Europe , the mystical Kabbalism of Isaac Luria ( d. 1572 ) had a deep and enduring influence on the thought and spirituality of Jews which has persisted to the present day , even though it may seem far in spirit from the Talmud . |
| 29 | It has been said , for example , that of all the species alive in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania at the time early man arrived there , only 60 per cent survived to the present day . |
| 30 | Silver became the most popular , surviving to the present day , in a minor capacity , as a drawing tool . |