Example sentences of "this day " in BNC.
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| 1 | This day the butler went oot tae gie it a piece an it tore him doon wae its feets an mooth . |
| 2 | Despite the curtailment of some of the clergy 's powers , friction between the teachers ' associations , particularly the INTO , and the Roman catholic clergy has remained until this day . |
| 3 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 4 | Are we all resolved to finish this day 's work ? ’ |
| 5 | Not that Masha was unable to enjoy herself — she had a fine sense of humour and loved to sing , which she could do well , serenading the songs of her homeland — lullabies and airs which still resonate in her son 's head to this day . |
| 6 | And these words , that I command thee this day , shall be upon thy heart ; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children , and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house , and when thou walkest by the way , and when thou liest down , and when thou riseth up . |
| 7 | In this day governments handle astronomical sums and a multitude of people . |
| 8 | Some are to this day . |
| 9 | Not for her the summit this day ; she 'd left the others to it . |
| 10 | It is true to this day in England that , if one has learning , one must wear it so lightly that it is unnoticeable . |
| 11 | where it is seen to this day |
| 12 | On this day : Saladin entered Jerusalem , 1187 ; the Duke of York captured Alkmaar in the Netherlands , 1799 ; Rome became the capital city of Italy , 1870 ; Brigham Young , Mormon leader , was arrested for bigamy , 1871 ; the first Royal Naval submarine was launched at Barrow , 1901 ; the first rugby football match was played at Twickenham , 1909 ; Italy invaded Ethiopia , 1935 ; the liner Empress of Britain , bound for Canada with refugees , was sunk , 1940 ; the British Council received a Royal Charter , 1940 ; 338 people died when the Queen Mary liner collided with the British cruiser Curacao , which sank off the coast of Donegal , 1942 ; a new island , with a volcano at the centre , appeared off Fayal Island , Azores 1957 ; Guinea became an independent republic , 1958 ; the first London performance of the musical show Promises , Promises was presented , 1968 . |
| 13 | On this day : the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes was renamed Yugoslavia , 1929 ; the first British atomic device was exploded in the Monte Bello islands in the Pacific , 1952 ; the Bolshoi Ballet appeared at Covent Garden for the first time , 1956 . |
| 14 | To this day the party has never quite healed the deep wounds left by what remains probably its most traumatic internal crisis . |
| 15 | On this day : Peterborough Cathedral was consecrated , 1238 ; Miles Coverdale 's translation of the Bible was published , 1535 ; William Smith founded the Boys Brigade , Glasgow 1883 ; the first public escalator was opened , Earl 's Court underground station 1911 ; Hitler and Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass , 1940 ; the USSR launched Sputnik 1 , the world 's first artificial satellite , 1957 ; the first transatlantic passenger jet service started operating , 1958 ; USSR 's Lunik III , took the first close-up pictures of the moon , 1959 ; Pope Paul VI visited New York , the first pope to visit America , 1965 . |
| 16 | On this day : the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy and Spain and today became 15 October 1582 ; Spain declared war on Britain , 1796 ; Italian troops occupied Tripoli , 1911 ; the first air battle took place between German and French aircraft , 1914 ; the Allies landed at Salonika , 1915 ; Sir Arthur Lee presented the estate of Chequers as an official country residence for the Prime Minister , 1917 ; the Locarno Conference met and the great powers guaranteed frontiers and agreed to put disputes to arbitration , 1925 ; unemployed shipyard workers started to march from Jarrow to London , 1936 ; the Cominform ( Communist Information Bureau ) was set up to aid European Communist parties , 1947 ; tea rationing ended in Britain , 1952 . |
| 17 | On this day : Captain Cook landed in New Zealand , 1769 ; the Polar Star and Boston Daily Advertiser newspaper was first issued , US 1796 ; the Rainhill trials of railway locomotives began , 1829 ; the Mormons in Utah renounced bigamy , 1890 ; Sir Henry Wood began Promenade Concerts at the Queen 's Hall , London , 1895 ; Manchester University was opened , 1903 ; Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina , 1908 ; 243 people died when the US freighter Ticonderoga was sunk by a German U-boat , 1918 ; the Jazz Singer , the first feature-length talking film , began showing in New York , 1927 ; Chiang Kai-shek became president of China , 1928 ; the first production of the musical show Nymph Errant was presented , London , 1933 ; the Berlin airlift ended , 1949 . |
| 18 | On this day : the Battle of Lepanto was fought , 1571 ; The Independent was first published , 1986 . |
| 19 | On this day : King 's College , London , was opened , 1831 ; Charles Nessler first used a permanent waving machine on a woman 's hair , 1905 ; Britain 's tallest building , the Post Office Tower in London , opened , 1965 ; Britain 's first legal commercial radio station , LBC , started transmitting , 1973 . |
| 20 | On this day : Louis XII , King of France , married Mary Tudor , sister of Henry VIII , 1514 ; the first Luddite riots against the introduction of machinery for spinning cotton started , Manchester 1779 ; Hobart , Tasmania , was founded , 1804 ; the Universal Postal Union was founded , Rome 1875 ; the first petrol-driven motor bus began operating in London , 1899 ; the Labour government fell , 1924 ; King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou , French foreign minister , were assassinated by a Croatian terrorist , Marseilles 1934 ; the first London production of the musical show Porgy and Bess was presented , 1952 ; the breathalyzer test came into force in Britain , 1967 . |
| 21 | On this day : Lucius Plancus founded Lyons , 43 BC ; rioters burnt down Nottingham Castle , 1831 ; Henry Morton Stanley met Dr Livingstone , Ujiji 1871 ; the Savoy Theatre opened with a performance of Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan , London 1881 ; Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess opened in New York City , 1935 ; Tristan da Cunha islanders were evacuated following a volcanic eruption , 1961 ; the XVIIIth Olympic Games opened in Tokyo , 1964 ; Fiji became independent , 1970 ; Sir John Betjeman became Poet Laureate , 1972 ; Spiro Agnew resigned as US Vice-President after being fined $10,000 for income tax evasion , 1973 ; in the General Election , Labour was returned with an overall majority of three , 1974 . |
| 22 | This is a young man 's court from this day on We 'll bid old ways and styles of talk begone ! |
| 23 | On this day : the Order of the Bath was constituted , 1399 ; Pope Leo X conferred the title ‘ Defender of the Faith ’ on Henry VIII , 1521 ; Peter the Great became Tsar of Russia , 1669 ; the Chicago Fire ended , having almost completely destroyed the city at a cost of $196m , 1871 ; the Anglo-Boer War started , 1899 ; Czechoslovakia became an independent republic , 1918 ; inflation overtook German currency , with the mark dropping to an exchange rate of 10,000m to the pound , 1923 ; fighting broke out in China between the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under Mao Tse-tung , 1945 ; Pope John XXIII opened the second Vatican Ecumenical Council , 1963 . |
| 24 | On this day : Christopher Columbus discovered San Salvador , 1492 ; the first Morris Minor car designed by Alec Issigonis was produced at Cowley , 1948 . |
| 25 | On this day : the arrest of the Templars for heresy took place in Paris , on the orders of Philip IV , 1307 ; Benedict Arnold was defeated at Lake Champlain , 1776 ; President George Washington laid the foundation stone of the White House , Washington 1792 ; British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of Queenston Heights , 1812 ; Greenwich was adopted as the universal meridian at the Washington Conference , 1884 ; 41 people were killed during a German air-raid on London , 1915 ; Ankara became the new capital of Turkey , 1923 ; Italy declared war on Germany , 1943 ; the Allies liberated Athens , 1944 ; the first London production of the musical show The Pajama Game was presented , 1955 . |
| 26 | Serrano 's Piss Christ ( which he termed ‘ a protest against the commercial invasion of sacred images ’ ) brought an outburst which continues to this day . |
| 27 | On this day : the Battle of Hastings was fought , 1066 ; Mary , Queen of Scots was tried , 1586 ; Marie Antoinette was tried , 1793 ; bread riots took place in Hyde Park , 1855 ; Oxford degrees were first conferred on women , 192050-pence coins were issued to replace the 10-shilling note , 1969 . |
| 28 | On this day : the new calendar , as promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII , came into force in Italy and Spain , and 5 October became 15 October , 1582 . |
| 29 | The Housing Associations or Public Utility Societies took many forms and have prospered to this day . |
| 30 | So it began to be asserted that this was a social service , and that there was something inherently reasonable and even laudable about subsidising the price of rented house-room — though how it could be reasonable or laudable to reduce by arbitrary and locally varying amounts the rents of an arbitrarily selected minority of families who have no common economic or other characteristic , is something which no one to this day has attempted to explain . |