Example sentences of "[prep] write [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Above all , it is worth bearing in mind that Britton 's work has little to say directly about writing development . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Conventions for writing dialogue |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The reason for writing history essays is not that your teacher has given you a deadline and you are running out of excuses . |
| 11 | It discusses the different areas of writing ability and looks at ways in which classroom activities can help learners to develop these . |
| 12 | This aspect of writing development is one in which it is relatively easy to specify the direction of development , and achievements at higher levels , but where the precise specification of intermediate levels is much more difficult . |
| 13 | Accustomed to having a job for life , they had no experience of writing grant applications and working under the pressure of uncertain funding . |
| 14 | As with imaginative literature , readers of factual works are divided between those who find an ill-written work virtually unreadable ( probably a fairly small percentage ) and those who are largely indifferent to matters of writing style ( probably the big majority ) . |
| 15 | The large character set used by such languages ( a few thousand ) makes keyboard use unwieldy , and the uniformity of writing style makes recognition relatively simple ( Tappert et al , 1990 ) . |
| 16 | If I have any criticisms of this section it is that it underestimates the difficulties of writing software and ignores the influence the historical development of computing has on the acceptance of new ideas ( what Seymour Papert calls the QWERTY phenomenon ) . |
| 17 | When I tired of writing press releases on new lube concepts I left Wartberg 's valve business to go to the Angstrom Corporation , where I worked on the launch of a new biscuit , the Pink Finger . |
| 18 | Thomas Walsingham , who stood in the St Albans tradition of writing history from the baronial point of view , wrote a ferociously hostile attack on him which may well reflect popular feeling . |
| 19 | Essays are consumable at A level — use them to feed the skill of writing History . |
| 20 | For historians the politics of information involve creating and sustaining attitudes and values in society at large which will support and demand the retention of the information sources which will be the basis of writing history in the future . |
| 21 | Almost the whole problem of writing poetry is to bring it back to what you really feel , and that takes an awful lot of manoeuvring . |
| 22 | Yet I can perhaps perform a minimal interpretative function by putting together some of these ‘ mutual ’ sonnets which deal with the act of writing poetry , and in which Shakespeare seems more than usually sensitive to the weight of pronouns . |
| 23 | Astrophil is a fool incapable of writing poetry . |
| 24 | It was purely for ‘ practical reasons ’ , as he wrote many years later , that Hardy abandoned his fruitless attempts to publish poetry in favour of writing fiction , for which there was a lively demand throughout the 19th century . |
| 25 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 26 | In terms of writing computer software , a program to automate an existing manual process will probably not be considered a trade secret . |
| 27 | The task of writing Soldier 's Tale looms so large in front of me — I hear voices calling ‘ No no you ca n't cast her ! ’ |
| 28 | The question , who tells us ? , recalls the most important of Dostoevsky 's many changes in the course of writing Crime and Punishment , his switch from first-person narration — the murderer 's story — to what is formally third-person but proves so supple , so volatile , that the distinction between the inside and outside of Raskolnikov 's head disappears when his creator wants it to . |
| 29 | A.L.S. afforded Whitaker a groundswell of proven Television writers , many with a wide experience of writing science fiction . |
| 30 | Louie Crew is Director of Writing Program at The Chinese University in Hong Kong , and he has produced the off-beat Styled text analyser , our third and final contender . |