Example sentences of "[prep] one day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I think erm i it seems very sad if we can single out one day to be the most important in our lives . |
| 2 | Although those tested after one day showed only a weak aversion ( i.e. latent inhibition was observed in this condition ) , more of an aversion was evident in those given the delayed test . |
| 3 | But in this cases it is necessary to assume the opposite in order to explain the results — to assume that what is learned during pre-exposure interferes less after 21 days than after one day . |
| 4 | He learned to sit after one day of clinic treatment . |
| 5 | The Germans had launched a counter-offensive against the Allied bridgehead at Anzio and air support , against enemy troop concentration and lines of communication , became vital in preventing loss of the bridgehead. 223 Squadron moved from Foggia to Biferno/Campomarino to join 3 ( South African Air Force ) Wing on March 13 and after one day to settle in to the new surroundings was tasked against the San Benedetto marshalling yards . |
| 6 | His hopes of adding Wimbledon glory to his collection of eight Grand Slam titles now look more forlorn than ever , even though he insists : ‘ You can not give up after one day . ’ |
| 7 | After one day on my own I am put back on trainee status . |
| 8 | Elizabeth was preserving her reputation , and the possibility of one day ruling her country , in the face of irresponsible sexual scandal about her created by one step-uncle , Thomas Seymour , her supposed lover , and of implacable hostility from the other , Edward duke of Somerset and protector of England . |
| 9 | It is the Armenians who live in what is left of the Armenian Republic — in the Soviet Republic of the same name — who perhaps have the only fragile opportunity of one day restoring their nation ; just as the Arab inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are now the only Palestinians to be able to fight with any effect for their statehood . |
| 10 | Ideally , the shadow should spend an uninterrupted week or fortnight with his opposite number , but if that is impracticable , a regular visit of one day a week throughout the term would be satisfactory . |
| 11 | A series of one day lectures in electronic imaging are planned by North East Surrey College of Technology ( NESCOT ) , Epsom , Surrey , aimed at photographers who wish to become involved with/know more about this fascinating area . |
| 12 | Despite there being no fractions in their arithmetic and observational difficulties due to frequent early morning mists and much cloud in the rainy season , they ultimately attained an accuracy in the determination of the synodic period of Venus that was of the order of one day in five thousand years , that is roughly one part in two million . |
| 13 | A recent offender makes its intentions of arousing morbid curiosity perfectly clear on its front cover , proclaiming ‘ 30,000 people burned , boiled and suffocated to death ’ , ‘ A whole thriving city levelled to the ground in seconds ’ , and ‘ The world best-selling account of one day when the earth exploded ’ . |
| 14 | The Gomez couple in Flame in the Street , although they have their arguments and race-related problems , appear relatively happy , if rather passionless : the structure of the narrative , taking place as it does over a period of one day , does not allow us to see the child that Judy Gomez is carrying . |
| 15 | This was usually in the form of one day or two half-day sessions . |
| 16 | Inman was retired prematurely and his post abolished , and Hunt was given an annual salary of £1,000 for a minimum of one day a week at the Office , although according to the Secretary , he was usually there ‘ nearly half a week ’ . |
| 17 | An exception to this has to be mentioned , viz. , that Professor Coleman was accustomed , unless prevented by some special cause — to visit Sir Astley Cooper in the evening of one day in the week during the winter half of the year , to indulge in a game of whist . |
| 18 | The dread of one day being an inmate darkened the life of every poor person for miles around . |
| 19 | The news that could well have wrecked forever Prince Charles ' hopes of one day becoming king was broken by the urbane Sir Robert Fellowes — the Queen 's Private Secretary — in a call to Downing Street . |
| 20 | When asked exactly how he spends his time , he gives an example of one day . |
| 21 | The attempt to hound companies over a debatable interpretation of one day 's delay shows a particularly nasty form of small-mindedness . |
| 22 | Like its predecessor , Another Lonely Londoner offers a distinctly bittersweet account of the immigrant experience , in which the racism and the shitty jobs and housing are balanced by the excitement of living in a major metropolis with its siren promise of one day making it big . |
| 23 | And with the South Africans planning 18 more Tests and a glut of one day internationals in the next two years , they are anxious not to drain the energy of their top-flight fast bowler . |
| 24 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |
| 25 | The kit will be made available to some customers and other interested parties for around the cost of one day 's consultancy . |
| 26 | Closest to Kathleen 's heart is the dream of one day being able to walk down the road with her son , his bare hand in hers . |
| 27 | The pattern of chapter 1 shows the principle of one day 's rest in seven . |
| 28 | The marks of one day were shown against those of the next , and so on . |
| 29 | The Commons could not agree on a scheme and several were inserted in the Bill by a temporary majority of one day and then removed by another majority later . |
| 30 | The thrill of one day making that discovery belongs to a scientist who is probably still at school now — your school , perhaps ; it might even be you ! |