Example sentences of "a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nalgo general secretary Alan Jinkinson said : ‘ This is a historic day for our three unions , for the trade union movement and for Britain 's cash-starved public services . ’ |
| 2 | The first episode of Doctor Who was transmitted on Saturday 23 November 1963 , a historic day marking also the aftermath of President Kennedy 's assassination . |
| 3 | Most of the southern states resisted this and in one particular state one that 's sprung to prominence in recent times , the State of Arkansas er and its capital Little Rock , the then state governor , who was n't then Bill Clinton but a man called Orville Forbus defied the supreme court 's order and on a historic day in nineteen fifty four a little troupe of black children trooped up to the local high school and were met by armed , armed police and turned away . |
| 4 | to the British summer game next … cricket … and a historic day for the City of Hereford … for the first time ever Herefordshire are playing in the Minor Counties League … they opened their innings against Devon today |
| 5 | They seemed disappointed to hear that we had had such a pleasant day on the far bank . |
| 6 | TAKE a pleasant day trip on a glass-bottomed boat to Isla de los Lobos , about a mile-and-a-half off the coast from Corralejo . |
| 7 | It had been a pleasant day out for both four-man teams , basking in the sun , playing cards , talking about women and in the afternoon watching ‘ Grandstand ’ on their television set . |
| 8 | No , just a pleasant day |
| 9 | In a rich day of piping and drumming , the R.U.C . |
| 10 | The allocation of a reserve day for all One-day Internationals over 55 overs . |
| 11 | Retention of the present format , including a reserve day for each round up to the final and the retention of the lead time between rounds played in midweek . |
| 12 | Unfortunate to be grouped with Essex , Lancashire in the first place , but what , pray , is the point of 8.30 finishes in matches afforded a reserve day ? |
| 13 | ‘ You will have a trying day tomorrow ’ , he once said to his District Magistrate while Chief Commissioner of Delhi ; ‘ You will be on the alert all day and will probably have a riot . |
| 14 | The idle flap of the hand again , and round the next corner was another tank , then a third , hull down in the long grass like old dogs sunning themselves on a lazy day . |
| 15 | We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula . |
| 16 | She yawned , stretched herself , voluptuously enjoying the process of waking up to a lazy day . |
| 17 | Every day 's a lazy day for him . |
| 18 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 19 | Harvest herbs on a dry day and hang in an airy , cool spot to dry for later use |
| 20 | Still more horrors — if rugby under the new law is difficult to play and to control on a dry day in South Africa , imagine the effect in marshy old England in the mud and rain of January ; imagine the shambles the game will become at the lower levels in those conditions with the sanctuary of the next scrum no longer available to the team carrying the ball . |
| 21 | She wanted to get all of the washing out , then cross her fingers for a dry day with a bit of sunshine and a drying wind . |
| 22 | Work the mixture into the cracks using the edge of a builder 's trowel , brushing away the surplus , and choosing a dry day to do the work , so that the surface of the slabs is not smeared with cement . |
| 23 | But a dry day would bring bigger crowds and add to the excitement of the vital third round of the tournament . |
| 24 | On one special occasion ( ie , a dry day ) I saw a female lead her pack of four kits along a small sandy bay . |
| 25 | The weather was relatively kind with the competitors having a dry day with no rain or strong winds to contend with . |
| 26 | But I know , too , that if it is a dry day on Saturday then I shall have to do it all over again . |
| 27 | The occurrence of wet and dry days is thus not random — there is a persistence effect such that a wet day is more likely to be followed by another wet day than by a dry day , and vice-versa . |
| 28 | Brush in the sand on a dry day to prevent it sticking . |
| 29 | it 's going to be a dry day get it out early and get it dry tomorrow . |
| 30 | And yet , any medium-sized town in the southern half of England has its Burleigh school : a private day school to which , for a not too exorbitant fee , parents can send their children and boast that they are privately educated . |