Example sentences of "[adj] day [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the farmer had agreed to insert the phrase ‘ Twenty Four Fine Days ’ in the contract instead of one month , the contract would operate on fine days only : on wet days the men would do their usual tasks about the farm , drawing their usual wage for those particular days . |
| 2 | And even in those pre-inflation days the price two years later was up to 2,500 guineas . |
| 3 | Yet even in those halcyon days the signs of trouble were there for those with the will to see them : the multi-media and multi-disciplinary avant-gardes were beginning to show up every NEA programme area ; the clamour for the funding of life-styles rather than art as traditionally defined was becoming louder , and the accepted definitions of art and the arts were everywhere coming under attack in grant applications as well as in panels . |
| 4 | For example … / in the old days a man of my standing would never have gone to the shops ; everything would be sent to his house : grain , chillies , cotton , cloth . |
| 5 | In the old days a man could be left to languish in prison uncharged and forgotten . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , I guess I get a yen for the old days every now and again , ’ he admitted . ’ |
| 7 | In the old days the subtle relationships which constituted the Establishment at work would have prevented any such developments taking place . |
| 8 | In the old days the surgeon made an incision in the lower portion of the tummy and reached the enlarged gland that way , but before the coming of antibiotics it was quite common for infections to develop or for the prostate to turn cancerous . |
| 9 | ‘ In the old days the presenters were stars in their own right . |
| 10 | ‘ In the old days the agency head knew every one of his staff . |
| 11 | In the old days the journey took nine or ten days by camel . |
| 12 | In the old days the boys learned to step on two bricks . |
| 13 | Apparently in the good old days the rule was that all the uniforms got cleaned every six months , whether they needed it or not . |
| 14 | ‘ Look , in the old days the Mamur Zapt was responsible for bloody everything in the city . |
| 15 | Erm I know it 's associated with over extraction of water at certain points but but be that as it may , but in the old days the Sussex Lands Committee er used to be er a county function and did take an overview erm of the whole West Sussex scene in terms of what happened erm it is now really now erm not our responsibility , although we put members on it , it 's a now fairly weak er joint body but it 's pretty toothless . |
| 16 | Britain needs fewer but brighter racecourses , each with a range of facilities that will attract customers for 300 days a year , not 10 . |
| 17 | People who own holiday homes available for rent at least 140 days a year will not have to pay a standard charge but they will be liable to pay business rates . |
| 18 | The UN Security Council on Oct. 6 voted unanimously to create within 30 days a war crimes commission to examine evidence of " grave breaches of international humanitarian law " in former Yugoslavia ( although it made no provision for further action ) . |
| 19 | The ministers also agreed to shorten from 120 days to 30 days the payment period for buying in grain for EC intervention stocks . |
| 20 | On some days the top of Pea Hill has been bathed in brilliant sunshine , while the valley of the River Wear ahead has been awash in a sea of grey , with tentacles of fog creeping outwards along hedges and gulleys into fields . |
| 21 | For some days the note lay untouched on the table . |
| 22 | For some days the government did nothing , shaken by these unprecedented disturbances . |
| 23 | Some days the schedule is very gentle , perhaps only three or four hours sailing ; leave in your own time , stop for a lunchtime swim , potter around a cave or whatever . |
| 24 | On some days the smoke is so thick here that it obscures the sun . |
| 25 | The lorries came and went on a service road near the town ; on some days the bulldozer clanked back and forth , crushing the rubbish into the soft , orange earth . |
| 26 | Although for many days the ship was becalmed and progress was slow , if at all , some days the vessel logged 12 knots and made good progress . |
| 27 | ‘ There are five of us now and we open five and a half days a week to deal with debt problems , ’ she said . |
| 28 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
| 29 | So er before and you had two half days a week , you 'd have Thursday and Saturday , you see ? |
| 30 | Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week . |