Example sentences of "[adj] day [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On wet days at Great Casterton we took it in turns to lecture , and on one of them I offered to talk about the Fosse Way as a Roman military frontier , a subject which had intrigued me from my work at Lincoln . |
| 2 | West Atlantic bryophytes are particularly well represented in the upland plant communities of the Western Isles , a feature undoubtedly linked to the high number of wet days on the higher ground of southern Lewis , Harris and South Uist ( Ratcliffe 1968 ) . |
| 3 | The Times , like the Guardian , has different days for different types of jobs . |
| 4 | He used to for different days for grave digging |
| 5 | Nanny Fanny was also a Jewess , which caused a lot of bad feeling because Smallfry called herself a Catholic and so they believed in different pars of the Bible and were supposed to go to church on different days of the week . |
| 6 | So do I. To anyone capable of seeing beyond a county bank balance , it has been clear for a number of years that there is too much limited-overs cricket played by the counties and that the present mix of three and four-day Championship games is not only confusing , especially now that they start on different days of the week , but also unnecessarily exhausting for all involved . |
| 7 | Collect your pension on different days of the week . |
| 8 | Certain papers specialize in particular career areas on different days of the week . |
| 9 | To ensure that different days of the week are covered , the measurements will be done on every twentieth working day . |
| 10 | In a radio announcement on Aug. 1 , a referendum on a draft multi-party constitution was set for Aug. 23-30 , with voting to take place on different days in Eastern , Southern , Northern and Western provinces . |
| 11 | Mr Depardieu also delights in adding lurid colour to his teenage days on the streets of Châteauroux . |
| 12 | Forty-five days after the onset of symptoms , his pneumonia and oral candidosis had been successfully treated , all other symptoms except fatigue had gone , p24 antigen was not found in the serum , HIV-1 antibodies were detectable by EIA and WB , CD4 count was 210/L ( 18.3% ) and CD8 512/L , and platelets were 252×10/L . |
| 13 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 14 | Though Ronnie Shade , in his halcyon days as an amateur , came as close as any golfer one has seen to hitting shot after shot without any discernible sidespin , most of the elite of professional golf have had a preferred shape of shot since — and probably long before — the days of Harry Vardon and his fade . |
| 15 | It 's amusing anecdote central with the rent-a-gob Cockney git and erstwhile punk rock Hip Young Gunslinger as they fondly reminisce about their halcyon days at The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly with a greenly envious IAN McCANN |
| 16 | As I escorted Marinka to the Oasis Arena in the torrential rain , the scene of mimose reminded me of my halcyon days at . |
| 17 | Appropriately we discussed his halcyon days on the eve of the Edgbaston Test when Sussex were playing Warwickshire in a Championship match at Hove . |
| 18 | Two changes since those halcyon days for the societies has put an end to their safe monopoly . |
| 19 | The post-merger period amounted to halcyon days for Hook Harris . |
| 20 | In the halcyon days of the 1960s , it was lower than is dreamed of now : inflation and unemployment shuffled along together comfortably within ranges of , respectively , 0.8%-6.3% and 1.5%-2.6% . |
| 21 | Dalrymple presided over the halcyon days of ‘ c'moan or get aff ’ until his retiral in 1926 , and Dalrymple 's days saw the expansion of the system to 100 miles of track and an annual profit , together with a yearly 300 MILLION passengers , not all on the one tram of course . |
| 22 | None of these measures will , of course , bring back the halcyon days of German science , or the immense amount of scientific talent lost to Germany — and usually to Europe — in the days of the Third Reich . |
| 23 | In the 19th century , biologists , growing up in the halcyon days of the Industrial Revolution , saw all life as a struggle to survive . |
| 24 | Bill : There 's something I 'd like to mention before we go too far away from the halcyon days of the gay movement . |
| 25 | Hot , halcyon days of sunshine and vapour trails , butterflies and crammed picnic baskets . |
| 26 | The contrast with the halcyon days of Italian family capitalism in the late 1980s is stark . |
| 27 | This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis . |
| 28 | There used to be a bloke who walked up and down Fleet Street in the old days with a fox on a lead , to prove how harmless they were . |
| 29 | It was to his girlfriend in Harare and he told her straight away that he was showing the French a thing or two , but it still was n't like the old days with the Rhodesian Light Infantry . |
| 30 | The old days with the Coes and the Ovetts , they used to avoid racing each other , and the public never ever got the benefit from that . |