Example sentences of "[adj] day [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combination of high precipitation , water surpluses , large number of wet days and low insolation experienced in highly oceanic areas is thought to increase the rate of growth and the competitive abilities of bryophytes , notably Sphagnum species , hypnoid mosses and Racomitrium ( Poore & McVean 1957 ) , all of which are very conspicuous in plant communities in the Western Isles . |
| 2 | November had been a damp and drizzly month , bringing shorter days and causing aggravation to those people who found it increasingly difficult to travel in the blackout . |
| 3 | Plan for shorter days and lower temperatures , with the west wetter than the rest — but there 's always hope for an Indian Summer . |
| 4 | Vega admitted that it was reminiscent of those halcyon days except that ‘ compared to the Clash audience , these guys are just a stream of piss ! ’ |
| 5 | Vega admitted that it was reminiscent of those halcyon days except that ‘ compared to the Clash audience , these guys are just a stream of piss ! ’ |
| 6 | David Lee from ENERGIZE thinks Electro is on its way back , and could speak for many hours about the halcyon days before Electro meant toddlers break-dancing in the streets , title-dropping classics like Man Parrish 's ‘ Hip Hop Be Bop ’ , early Mantronix , and Shannon . |
| 7 | Well what happened to change in fact this er notion of limited rational wars with the means , ends in balance etcetera , the kind of , of erm halcyon days if you like to which Klausovitz wished to return ? |
| 8 | Donald seemed to be describing the bad old days before Mrs Thatcher , as far as Henry could see . |
| 9 | Consequently , it is rather amusing to have Gergiev tell you that the only thing he misses about the bad old days before perestroika is the order . |
| 10 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
| 11 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
| 12 | In the old days before we started building the bridge they used to fetch up on a bend about two miles down . |
| 13 | and erm you 're looking , you 're , let's say you turn up looking at a screen , you 're actually standing up like they used to do in the old days before they had radar |
| 14 | Mr Chatfield , you 've been here for , well , as you say , thirty five years — what was it like in the old days before the university was put here ? |
| 15 | in the bad old days , in the bad old days before high technology caught up with us , when we used to have more literals than in your average your average academic textbook , which takes some doing . |
| 16 | way back in the old days but Now then , |
| 17 | I was always surprised in the old days that Margaret did n't carve ) , and a large potato in its jacket . |
| 18 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 19 | Long conversations tired her but she loved to talk of the old days and her life as a nanny to a wealthy family . |
| 20 | Mrs Browning likes to have me with her now , no other person will do , and we talk of the old days and Miss Henrietta slipping off to Regent 's Park to walk with Mr Surtees Cook and the squeezes she loved to hold in Wimpole Street when her father was away . |
| 21 | We talked of old days and new ways — and living alone . |
| 22 | ‘ Ow long are you weeth us , Reeky ? ’ asked Claudia , who 'd had a secret crush on him in the old days and was appalled to see how grey and tense he looked . |
| 23 | Sitting at the table one evening next to Astrid 's mum , Peg , from Massachusetts , he opened up , as one sometimes can , to an interested stranger and spoke for hours about the old days and about his condition and his feelings . |
| 24 | You try telling Granny Morkie about the Good Old Days and see what she says . ’ |
| 25 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 26 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 27 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 28 | Whilst this may have been commonplace in the old days as vendors moved from technology to technology there is little need for it now , as Monotype are adequately demonstrating . |
| 29 | Roseanne Barr would make a great Liz during her older , fatter days but could have trouble slimming down for scenes of a 60-year-old Liz in her more glamorous days . |
| 30 | She skipped in the stableyard and jumped up and down off orange boxes in the storeroom and occasionally thought back to her carefree days before Sylvester went mad on their behalf . |