Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] piece [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
2 | Erm the inertial measurement unit which is er a rather critical piece of equipment er in er a system of this nature initially did not perform to the the full level of requirement that that we we desire so you know , some further development had to be done on that before it would match the system . |
3 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |
4 | But it was a rather confused piece of reasoning as his article began by conceding that there is strong support for the development of labour policies in the North . |
5 | In common parlance ‘ the Crown ’ probably signifies the monarch if , indeed , it does not refer to a rather elaborate piece of headgear on show in the Tower of London . |
6 | But she had also , by a fortunate piece of incompetence on the part of her soldiers , lost Calais , which cost about £25,000 per annum , and , by a remarkably firm piece of action , had dramatically increased the revenue from tonnage and poundage . |
7 | Your article , Facts about Phosphate by Philip Hunt , was a most informative piece of work . |
8 | This is a most pathetic piece of pontification , even if we appreciate that modern artists are some of the greatest censors of art ( i.e. Rauschenberg erasing de Kooning ) . |
9 | Another gave us his wartime petrol coupons , an early tram ticket , and – a most valuable piece of ephemera this year – some bound copies of a gorgeously-illustrated old magazine called ‘ The Graphic ’ . |
10 | The interesting Occasional Paper by Russell Ashmore regarding the use of Section 5(4) ( August 26 ) refers to patients remaining in psychiatric institutions , and is a most welcome piece of research work . |
11 | It is a most beautiful piece of cookery literature . |
12 | In our view , though , every developer believes his own particular case to be unique , with ‘ special circumstances ’ to consider ; and every developer will seek to demolish existing listed buildings by arguing that they will be replaced by a much better piece of architecture . |
13 | Another group , exclusively male , was gathered around what Sendei guessed was a highly advanced piece of technology . |
14 | There were another three Jet Skis buzzing around on that part of the river and a few water-skiers with their big-engined speedboats , all creating a fair old racket , but we could still hear William laughing ; the guy thought buying a frighteningly expensive piece of machinery and spending most of your time falling off it into the water was just the most enormous wheeze . |
15 | This means that it is not necessary to know the total number of items in advance , because each item is a separately allocated piece of memory . |
16 | In any case , there is a still stronger piece of evidence that Edmund 's popularity in Cnut 's day was connected with the recent past . |
17 | However , when subjects had to decide whether the target sentence followed appropriately from the context , a sentence context should be more difficult than a word context since it presents the subject with a more complex piece of information . |
18 | Instead of a lobby warming against gunshots , could we not have a more useful piece of theatre legislation , making audience participation a violation of union rules ? |
19 | We are looking for a more realistic piece of sky . ’ |
20 | When someone Takes the Side of the Other they may not be developing something totally novel , in the sense that the classic experimental subject , who shows attitude-change , incorporates a totally new piece of information . |
21 | All around the house was a wide open piece of land ; and around that was a fence , two metres high , with no doors or openings , and too strong to pull down easily . |
22 | Since in connection with this American libel we did not employ Mr Quintin Hogg , I wrote him a short letter and received a courteous reply : The third occasion when we instituted proceedings was several years later , in 1971 , when Harold Wilson was back in opposition , and related to the activities of the BBC , which produced a thoroughly incompetent piece of television called Yesterday 's Men . |
23 | My way is to burn a hole in using a soldering iron , or by heating up a similarly shaped piece of metal on the gas oven and slowly easing it through . |
24 | I seem to remember they put it in mono and did a limited edition in stereo which , for those days , was a fairly advanced piece of thinking . |
25 | If there is to be a fairly detailed piece of note writing it very often is a fairly near or an exact copy of something that 's already gone before . |
26 | The German Officer appears to be seriously wounded , the clothing on his back is saturated with blood ; the size of the wound indicates a fairly large piece of shrapnel has entered his back close to the spine . |
27 | Big barbel though , have a distinct preference for swims that combine three factors : a fairly slack piece of water adjacent to a fast run , and especially where these two preside over a dense weedbed or some other kind of refuge such as a hole , steep ledge or sunken tree . |
28 | Although it was a fairly reliable piece of kit , the radar sometimes needed tweaking to get maximum signal returns . |
29 | Though the poetic richness of ‘ Exequy ’ would be surpassed in The Waste Land , a far subtler piece of writing , the emptiness of the lesser work and its pained despair would be repeated in the masterpiece . |
30 | No , that was a purely personal piece of business . |