Example sentences of "an [adv] [adj] piece [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told various parables to illustrate what the Kingdom of God is like : it is like a person discovering treasure in a field , so he sells everything he has and buys the field ; or like finding an extremely expensive piece of jewellery . |
| 2 | In fact , the Act ( which is an extremely complicated piece of legislation ) did not succeed in abolishing the tied cottage . |
| 3 | It 's a constant amazement how an apparently harmless piece of rubbish can become an animal 's enemy . |
| 4 | ‘ An overly complicated piece of subterfuge perhaps . |
| 5 | What Wieman has done — as well as reaching the lowest temperature on record — is to simplify what has been an immensely complex piece of laboratory apparatus . |
| 6 | So mindless is the wiring of this sensible hygienic behaviour that a drop of oleic acid on an otherwise innocuous piece of wood or even on a live bee results in the removal of the offending object . |
| 7 | The campaign director , Chrissie Maher , says , ‘ If you come across an unnecessarily complicated piece of jargon , you can either forget it or send them one of our cards that carries the pointed message : Gobbledygook can damage your business . ’ |
| 8 | In these theories the basic objects are not particles , which occupy a single point of space , but things that have a length but no other dimension , like an infinitely thin piece of string . |