Example sentences of "to the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flood story in Babylonia is also known from a Sumerian text telling virtually the same tale , though more briefly , and many Sumerian compositions refer to the distant days of the flood or before . |
| 2 | But it is universally accepted outside the ruling party that there is no question of a return to the golden days of 1980 and earlier elections , when Congress used to scoop up four-fifths of the seats . |
| 3 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 4 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 5 | In a game that went to the fifth day only because many hours were lost to the weather — the actual playing time was two and two-thirds days — one was left wondering what he might have done had he been fully fit . |
| 6 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |
| 7 | So far we have been self supporting with most of the folks who come along donating to our needs , however we would like to make a donation to the Seventh Day Adventist Church who give us the use of their premises , gas and electricity free of charge . |
| 8 | She was doing well at St Hilda 's College in Oxford , and her devotion to the Seventh Day Adventist Church gained admiration from the congregation . |
| 9 | On the eastern side of the Rotonda is the wide major road of Via Regina Margherita which leads to Piazza Cinque Giorante , the square of the Five Days , where stands the monument to the Five Days . |
| 10 | Thence it moves into existing management training — and every manager gets at least five days a year about managing people , in addition to the five days a year basic training that every IBMer is supposed to have . |
| 11 | As already mentioned , the defendant may submit a defence up to the return day and even at the pre-trial review if he or she is prepared to risk costs being awarded against him or her . |
| 12 | ( b ) " a road accident " means an accident on land due to a collision or apprehended collision involving a vehicle ; ( c ) " a statement of the special damages claimed " has the same meaning as in Ord 6 , r 1(7). ( 9 ) Unless the context otherwise requires , references in these rules to the return day in relation to a fixed date action to which this rule applies shall be construed as references to the date on which directions take effect under this rule . |
| 13 | However , as Fillmore ( 1975 ) notes , these have two kinds of referent : they can either refer to the entire span itself , as in ( 56 ) , or to a point within the relevant span , as in ( 57 ) : ( 56 ) Tomorrow is Wednesday ( 57 ) Dennis hit Murphy with a baseball bat yesterday Note that the deictic words yesterday , today and tomorrow pre-empt the calendrical or absolute ways of referring to the relevant days . |
| 14 | The rest of this slide illustrates a number of other recommendations , and I would particularly highlight 2.6 where it says " A safe enclosed external space should also be provided linked to the internal day spaces . " |
| 15 | In 1963 came the signing of the Anglo-French agreement to build Concorde ( or ‘ Concord ’ as it was at first spelled in Britain ) , and the video faithfully traces it right back to the earliest days of its conception . |
| 16 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 17 | This tradition goes back to the earliest days of the Ottoman state , to Molla Edebali ( d. 726/1326 ) , Osman 's father-in-law , and is based on statements in both the and the . |
| 18 | In a beautifully simple piece of writing Achebe transports us back to the earliest days of colonialism . |
| 19 | If for some reason you have to miss a day 's exercises , be sure to return to the missed day before continuing with the programme . |
| 20 | They talked about how to write The Yellow Chair , whether to make it stark and classical by keeping the unities , restricting the action to the terrible days of the battle with Gauguin , or whether to make it episodic and epic , to introduce Theo at least and maybe other figures , even the looming pastor from Nuenen . |
| 21 | Australian team manager Bobby Simpson said his bowlers were looking forward to the second day , when similar overcast conditions were forecast . |
| 22 | Polar plants appear to have adapted positively to the long days , long nights , low light intensities and other special conditions ( Chapter 2 ) of their environment . |
| 23 | Of particular interest in the mouse is the observation that up to the 8th day of gestation the isolated embryonic region will give rise to transplantable tumours when placed beneath the testis or kidney capsule ( 16,17 ) . |
| 24 | As well as folk enthusiasts the Darlington Arts Centre , which is playing host to the four day festival , was crowded with real ale fans enjoying the Campaign For Real Ale 's Small Beer Festival . |
| 25 | All he would say was that the paper would be completely new , but would hark back to the great days of the Mirror . |
| 26 | There were more Goblin tribes still loyal or too afraid to desert , but even they were few compared to the great days of conquest . |
| 27 | Even up to the final days the movement of the young fish can be seen by using a strong eye-glass . |
| 28 | ( Even nursing of the terminally sick relates to the significance of death as the end of a complete human life , not just to the final days in hospital . ) |
| 29 | The presence of Tracy Austin , America 's pig-tailed youngster of the late seventies , should be of great interest to the modern day tennis lover following her recent comeback exploits . |
| 30 | We should add by way of completeness that the provisions of sections 16 and 12 of the Act of 1873 have been carried forward to the modern day in more or less identical language , mutatis mutandis , to sections 18(3) and 34(1) of the Supreme Court of Judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 and then , in more cursory language , to sections 10(3) ( b ) and 44(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |