Example sentences of "on [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I 've presented this training programme with specific work-outs on specific days , it is the work-out sequence that is important , not the days of the week . |
| 2 | Nothing had done more to encourage this belief than the Church with its ecclesiastical calendar and regulations concerning what could or could not be done on specific days . |
| 3 | If you have not trained your lecturer to give you the information to which you are entitled — that he is to deal with such and such a topic on specific days — then get started with a process of attrition , backed by your friends , until he does produce a programme for the term . |
| 4 | Also , to see as much of the main palace as possible it is necessary to take several guided tours ( such as for Madame du Barry 's apartments , Madame de Maintenon 's suite , and the King 's private apartments ) which are often available only at awkward times on specific days . |
| 5 | There will not therefore be testing on specific days , or just for P4 and P7 groups , but Testing can apply to any class at any time . |
| 6 | Even on dry days they are kept moist , ready to dissolve and transmit the perception of interesting molecules . |
| 7 | On non-school days children should not work any more than five hours if they are under 15 and on Sundays children can only work two hours . |
| 8 | On odd days he would work on the novel . |
| 9 | On odd days , a young woman who had gone to work as a governess at a remote Scottish house wrote to an employer she never saw about portraits which moved in the middle of the night and which , the governess wrote , appeared to speak monosyllabic expressions of agony . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's fairly flexible , I go in on odd days . |
| 11 | On odd days off , |
| 12 | The Arbuthnots hunted on odd days with the Meath and Tom lived for the sport . |
| 13 | On normal days , of course , Lord Darlington took his meals , as does Mr Farraday today , in the more intimate atmosphere of the dining room , which is ideal for accommodating up to a dozen . |
| 14 | On calm days people dived to inspect the bottom contours . |
| 15 | On windy days he finds himself flying over Doncaster , flares a-flap , hair streaming behind him like a curtain . |
| 16 | The structures must be able to withstand bad weather , including gale force winds , ensuring there is no distracting and perhaps alarming flapping of canvas on windy days , which is particularly important if a PA system is to be used . |
| 17 | If he put down sheets of newspaper in the kitchen to keep the floor clean on wet days , one of his cats would back up to the far wall and then launch herself as fast as she could at the papers . |
| 18 | There is enough of interest in its arcaded streets , hill-top cathedral overlooking the estuary , and fish restaurants , to occupy your time on wet days . |
| 19 | Left and below : If you like the effect of gravel , but do n't want it sticking to your boots on wet days , lay ‘ stepping stones ’ or brick , paving , etc , in concrete at regular intervals . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Columbia Square was built on principles similar to the Thanksgiving and Peabody buildings ; but it did allow for a club room and a covered area where children might play on wet days , where Roberts had avoided communal amenities , questioning whether the working class would have time to enjoy them . |
| 22 | ‘ Another story touching on wet days : poor old Mrs Suggett told me it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The cellar , being a sort of tunnel between yard and house , would have made an excellent place to play in on wet days . |
| 25 | Here is a car to be savoured at your leisure , on high days and holidays , but above all on sunny days . |
| 26 | Others introduce Gregorian or modal material on high days and special occasions . |
| 27 | Her formula is used throughout the house , which has a peaceful and informal country house ambience — particularly in the creamy yellow drawing room which is used only on high days and holidays . |
| 28 | They were people who really let themselves go on high days and holidays , not likely to fuss about anything left over . |
| 29 | At the moment the Forest is at its busiest on high days and holidays , but the feeling is it 's reached nowhere near its full business potential . |
| 30 | Those who have viewed the Lombardy Plain from a distance will know that even on clear days Milan has its own atmosphere , the way that other cities do , although , in fairness , it is very much less than many others , despite its low-lying position . |