Example sentences of "[prep] write [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think back to the stuff we did on memory , a little and often is a good way of trying to remember things Okay , it 's useful if you 've covered topic areas to actually think about writing essays about questions that you think about to get you used to the style and time s scale of actually dealing with exams . |
| 2 | What was so private about writing letters for business people , l who ought to have clerks for doing it ? |
| 3 | The documentation provides plenty of general advice about writing letters — both the general construction and some of the finer points , such as how many lines to leave for a signature . |
| 4 | It may not be too extreme to suggest that the last few years have seen a quiet revolution in the direction taken by our thinking about writing development and the teaching of writing in schools . |
| 5 | Above all , it is worth bearing in mind that Britton 's work has little to say directly about writing development . |
| 6 | ‘ The great thing about writing sport for Punch is that people ca n't say it 's not as funny as it used to be , because nobody 's done it before , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The image of the housewife as a cabbage makes a number of appearances in answers to the question about writing housewife on a form ( it is mentioned by twelve of the forty women ) . |
| 8 | There are three further points to be made about writing objectives . |
| 9 | ‘ The more I 'm into music and the more I 'm into guitar playing , I realise it is n't about how great a guitar player you are ; it 's about writing songs and it 's about fitting guitar and voice together . |
| 10 | In a recent essay she claims to have had a strong sense of déjá-vu upon first reading theories of post-structuralism and postmodernism , for though she had never been able to articulate them clearly in conceptual form , she had discovered many of the concepts these theories present through writing fiction ( 1991a:165 ) . |
| 11 | So much for writing reports . |
| 12 | There is a case for writing reports but the Profitboss prefers not to make it , preferring to profit from an accurate word of mouth . |
| 13 | A few years ago , in the brief period of enthusiasm and expansion after Russell , those responsible for writing reports , conducting research , making recommendations , did so in a fairly jovial cavalier fashion that could be said to characterise the type of men who operated their way to the top in adult education . |
| 14 | Conventions for writing dialogue |
| 15 | The Amstrad PCW he bought for writing letters when handwriting became too difficult has given him a new interest in life . |
| 16 | and for writing letters and |
| 17 | But to his wife Isabelle , Manchester United 's latest £1.2 million signing is a shy , gentle father with a passion for writing poetry and painting . |
| 18 | What was overlooked in our discussion of stylistic competence is that our intuitive " placing " of a text depends not on an undifferentiated capacity to compare a text with the norm of the language , but rather on a responsiveness to a set of norms : a norm for spoken conversation , a norm for news reporting , a norm for writing diaries , a norm for historical novels , etc . |
| 19 | Hence we refer to the process used for writing non-words to dictation as ‘ subword level phonological-to-orthographic conversion ’ . |
| 20 | As there is a tendency to increase the complexity of CISCs in order to upgrade existing products , resulting in increased design time , increased design errors , and inconsistent implementations the university believed that a simpler RISC could be a cheaper alternative in the modern world where high-level languages predominate and there is little need for complex instructions for writing assembly code . |
| 21 | tool kit for writing gateways to other data sources . |
| 22 | to update provision to take account of SCOTVEC requirements for writing module descriptors as detailed in the document The National Certificate — Guidelines for Module Writers , to ensure that statements of national standards are clear and well formed . |
| 23 | The reason for writing history essays is not that your teacher has given you a deadline and you are running out of excuses . |
| 24 | It serves as a means of transport , a temporary office for writing notes and making records , a refuge in bad weather , a place to eat lunchtime sandwiches , and a store for the equipment : the sample bottles , sampling buckets , boxes , crates , chemicals , inflatable booms , ropes , leggings , boots and waders , and various other pieces of protective clothing . |
| 25 | Checklist for writing releases |
| 26 | In this way television sets standards for writing textbooks , editing newspapers — even for the most ‘ effective ’ ways to teach in the school classroom . |
| 27 | Her fondness for writing verses there displayed itself by her sometimes taking up her pen while the jack was standing still , and the meat scorching |
| 28 | Instead , she turned to writing and discovered a talent for writing verses , particularly Christmas verses . |
| 29 | Bill Naughton : Jan 8 , aged 81 : Irish-born novelist , best-known for writing Alfie , the film which made Michael Caine a star . |
| 30 | Checklist for writing captions |