Example sentences of "day [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst all these fugitives seeking to surrender to the British in those first few days were the two groups whose fate is the particular concern of this report . |
| 2 | The next two days were the same ; Sunday they spent in bed , and Mrs Patten went out to her sister 's . |
| 3 | For most , the first few days were the worst . |
| 4 | And for most , the first few days were the worst ! |
| 5 | So I , I ca n't really say my school days were the happiest days , they certainly were n't . |
| 6 | So , for all you who said that last year 's Contact Day was the best thing DTI and SERC had ever done and could there please be another — this is it ! |
| 7 | Judging from entries made in burial registers it appears that three days was the average length of delay . |
| 8 | They liked us to have what in those days was the matric . |
| 9 | However the one dark shadow on our lives in those days was the alarming growth of the number of people with tuberculosis which affected the lungs . |
| 10 | That day was the one year anniversary of , of Eighth Air Force operations in England . |
| 11 | On 11 December 1272 he transferred to the new archbishop of Canterbury , Robert Kilwardby [ q.v. ] , the spiritualities of the see and on the following day was the only bishop recorded as present in London at an important declaration concerning royal rights in respect of this papal provision of Kilwardby . |
| 12 | Sara Clay , of Face Ltd , who organised the conference with Teesside Training and Enterprise Councils , said the day was the first of its kind in the North . |
| 13 | Missing son 's big day was the final straw for Mr Europe |
| 14 | Thanks were extended to all the Kent teachers who had hosted the event and the finale to a happy day was the final draw of the society 's 1983/84 Fund Raising activity — The 200 Club . |
| 15 | Only high spot from what should have been a red letter day was the terrific £300 raised for the local Hartlepool hospice . |
| 16 | The sunniest day was the 30th , when 7.5 hours were recorded . |
| 17 | After the flight of King James II on 11 December 1688 the legal fiction was adopted that this day was the last of his reign ( thus 4 James II is 6 February 1688 to 11 December 1688 ) , and there followed an interregnum until William III and Mary II were made king and queen for their joint and several lives on 13 February 1689 . |
| 18 | Playing in goal that day was the legendary Sam Bartram , after whom a road beside the ground has been named . |
| 19 | There is good photographic evidence to suggest that Day Comet did in fact finish third , but the Epsom judge that day was the same Charles Robinson who had controversially denied Craganour the Two Thousand Guineas , and he placed Day Comet fifth . |
| 20 | several streets all very like one another , and many more streets still more like one another , inhabited by people equally like one another , who all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow , and every year the counterpart of the last and the next . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't you know with me every day was the same , ’ Patsy said cheerfully . |
| 22 | The next day was the same . |
| 23 | Dickens likened the piston of the steam engine to " the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness " , but even by 1815 it was only a minority of the working population who had as yet been cast in the mould of his 1845 Coketowners who , " all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow " . |
| 24 | The day was the easiest since Reggane and I came to camp after twenty miles feeling strong , with Aulef only two hours away . |
| 25 | After my first day I felt really tired when I got home , as that day was the longest day of my life . |
| 26 | The next day was the big event and I wore a nice new dress in blue and fawn which I bought from Shepherd 's in Barnard Castle . |