Example sentences of "day ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distinctive sound and the working success of the whistles will ensure that the results of Nigel Day 's hobby are in continued demand from railways and owners near and far for many years to come . |
| 2 | In ‘ God 's Cop ’ , Mark Day 's guitar is raw and rasping like it eats ten jangly guitars for breakfast ; rhythm and booze at its best , but gelling easily with the older , classic Bez-dance tunes ‘ Hallelujah ’ and ‘ Wrote For Luck ’ , both still mesmeric , especially with tonight 's flashy light show , and ‘ Step On ’ still makes a stomping lingering finale . |
| 3 | On every anniversary of the crash she has picked small branches from the same tree and laid them on Day 's grave . |
| 4 | long-popular psalm melody , so called from the psalm being the 100th one in Day 's psalter ( 1563 ) : |
| 5 | These are clearly more formal models than those which the modern letter-writer is used to , yet Shakespeare 's range stretches from the intimate and occasional to just such formal rhetorical structures as Day 's category of the ‘ Epistle Deliberative ’ , which uses a mixture of praise and criticism in its ‘ Hortatory ’ or ‘ Dehortatory ’ intent , and may legitimately subject the recipient to moral pressure : Yet , while acknowledging the relevance of Day 's treatise on letter-writing and its tactics of persuasion , we may note that in Shakespeare one of Day 's categories is absent , namely the ‘ Responsory Epistle ’ , which ‘ dependeth of the partes of a former letter ’ and must refer back to it . |
| 6 | These are clearly more formal models than those which the modern letter-writer is used to , yet Shakespeare 's range stretches from the intimate and occasional to just such formal rhetorical structures as Day 's category of the ‘ Epistle Deliberative ’ , which uses a mixture of praise and criticism in its ‘ Hortatory ’ or ‘ Dehortatory ’ intent , and may legitimately subject the recipient to moral pressure : Yet , while acknowledging the relevance of Day 's treatise on letter-writing and its tactics of persuasion , we may note that in Shakespeare one of Day 's categories is absent , namely the ‘ Responsory Epistle ’ , which ‘ dependeth of the partes of a former letter ’ and must refer back to it . |
| 7 | When Francis finished his evidence , it was William Day 's turn . |
| 8 | We do n't know if Fred Day 's claim is true ; we do know that he 's not alone in believing it to be . |
| 9 | It was very fitting that the late Sgt Day 's brother , Arthur , and sister , Joan , were among the guests attending . |
| 10 | All these systems dealt with the problem of how to dispose of stock when , as Day 's library so elegantly put it on the slip , ‘ the first demand for the book has abated ’ . |
| 11 | It is not clear whether the transition from one quite understandable activity to another that would have made the old commercial librarians blush even to contemplate ( one thinks of Day 's library ticket with its ‘ Scarce books and books out of print carefully searched for ’ ) was simply a question of the slippery slope in a semi-literate world . |
| 12 | Editions produced by members of the School include Dr Jonquil Bevan 's Oxford English Texts edition of Izaak Walton 's The Complete Angler ( 1983 ) , Dr Aidan Day 's edition ( with Professor Christopher Ricks ) of facsimiles of Tennyson manuscripts , The Tennyson Archive ( 30 volumes , Garland , 1987–92 ) , Professor Ian Donaldson 's Oxford Authors edition of Ben Jonson ( 1985 ) , Professor K.J. Fielding 's , Professor Ian Campbell 's and Ms A. Christianson 's Duke-Edinburgh edition of the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle ( volumes 19–21 , 1993 ) , and Dr Michael Phillips ' edition of William Blake : ‘ An Island in the Moon ’ ( Cambridge University Press , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | The name daisy is derived from " Day 's eye " , for this plant opens its flowers at dawn . |
| 14 | A similar proposal by the Tory backbencher Mr Jonathan Aitken — who wrote the foreword to Mr Day 's book — during the Commons debate on the Security Service Act this year , was rejected by Home Office ministers despite growing support inside Whitehall for a system of independent oversight . |
| 15 | Even a glance at Timothy Day 's book ( which includes only the sacred vocal music ) will show that the Byrd discography is a distinguished one . |
| 16 | The last four lines of this sonnet are seldom quoted , but to me they represent Shakespeare at his best , that intimate tone and unforced style of which Angel Day 's account of the personal letter is so apt a description : ‘ the familiar and mutuall talke of one absent friend to another … simple , plaine , and of the lowest and meanest stile ’ — yet how expressive : It is rare , even in his poetry , to find traditional tropes reanimated with such freshness and simplicity . |
| 17 | After a rather unnecessarily long and elaborate trial , Justice Day 's summing-up was refreshingly brief . |
| 18 | A piece winged off and sliced a gash in Nick Day 's cheek , while Stewart Ross , diving sideways , pushed a man into the table that he sat at , dislodging drinks into his girlfriend 's lap . |
| 19 | Day 's fulcrum at the point before the year plunges . ’ |
| 20 | After five days ' walking they were obviously all fit and experienced . |
| 21 | ferry timetables forced a quick visit , but it allowed two good days ' walking . |
| 22 | Backpackers must make adjustments — quite easy to do with a few days ' walking under your belt , not so simple when your planning trips in your living room . |
| 23 | After three days ' disappearance following the sheep-eating incident , the eagle was seen again for certain on a telegraph pole outside the village of Lutterworth near Leicester by a passing motorist , Mrs Gillian Cook . |
| 24 | More to the point , the affair earned Owen a few days ' breathing space . |
| 25 | In January 1922 the Smolensk party committee estimated that there was only enough fuel of all kinds left for seven to eight days ' consumption . |
| 26 | Shop stewards have recommended accepting the offer of just under 9 per cent — worth £10 a week to most bakers — two extra days ' holiday by April 1991 to make five weeks a year , and other benefits , including better sick pay . |
| 27 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 28 | But the question we must ask is why so many British workers are getting a two-week break when other European workers are making do with just three days ' holiday . |
| 29 | But they do want their time off : even though 58% of accountants are entitled to over 25 days ' holiday , the majority still felt they deserved more . |
| 30 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |