Example sentences of "[prep] write the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After writing the story and filing it by telegraph I revelled in a hot bath , a good dinner , and a warm bed as the guest of the Palliser Hotel . |
| 2 | She cheered up after writing the experiment because she had obviously done it rather well . |
| 3 | Allowing 10 minutes per client for collection each week , assuming the collector gets rather less than average industrial earnings and himself copes with all the paperwork involved during those 10 minutes , and assuming that the trading check firm pays the shops where the check has been used ( less its commission — perhaps 12½ per cent ) about a month after writing the check , the actual return to the lender would work out at only 7 per cent — that is to say , less than the firm 's own borrowing costs would be , even without making any allowance for either bad debts and late payments or office overheads . |
| 4 | What , I wonder , should I make of Brian Hitchen ‘ thinking about writing the Great British Novel [ Mr Hitchen is editor of the DAILY STAR ] ’ ? |
| 5 | ‘ I read Women Who … halfway through writing the novel , ’ Zoë says , ‘ it was not a direct inspiration , but it was very validating ’ . |
| 6 | CD 's notes for writing the first instalment of Hard Times reveal that the object of his satire here was ‘ Marlborough House Doctrine ’ and ‘ Cole ’ , i.e. Henry Cole ( 1808–82 ) , civil servant and one of the main organizers of the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 7 | A great deal depends on what the computer was programmed to ask and the criteria for writing the programme might not prove acceptable to all Old Testament scholars . |
| 8 | Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material . |
| 9 | You must always keep your reader in mind because he or she is the true reason for writing the report . |
| 10 | This was another reason for writing the book . |
| 11 | In examinations for entry into the national civil service , the choice for writing the answer scripts is between Hindi and English . |
| 12 | Documenting such unwritten languages was a hit-or-miss affair until in 1933 Leonard Bloomfield suggested more rigorous ‘ scientific ’ techniques for writing the grammars of unwritten languages . |
| 13 | Over half of teachers found the LEA guidelines to be useful for writing the report ; a quarter had found them not very useful and a fifth were unsure about this . |
| 14 | Primary school teachers contribute most directly to their school reports , find the LEA guidelines for writing the report most useful and think their reports most judgmental , secondary teachers again least on all these items . |
| 15 | Guidelines for writing the message |
| 16 | Although at the time of writing the weather has reverted to the usual Icelandic summer , there was considerable new route activity in April and May . |
| 17 | But at the last minute , apparently under the immediate pressure of writing the magazine version of the novel , Dostoevsky realised that ‘ FACTUAL ’ is precisely what Kirillov 's role must not , in essence and impact , be . |
| 18 | At the time of writing the investor may often be uncertain where to turn . |
| 19 | So wrote Betty Friedan , who was a suburban housewife in the act of writing the book which was to shatter this image . |
| 20 | When Martin Scorsese filmed The Rat Jacket , Cameron Nielson Sr tried to get his son the job of writing the score , but the deal fell through . |
| 21 | At the time of writing the National Curriculum Council is due to publish its guidance document on Citizenship as a Cross-Curricular Theme . |
| 22 | At the time of writing the fee for this valuation will vary between £50 and £200 according to the purchase price . |
| 23 | At the time of writing the signs are that West Germany could well adopt a national energy plan involving considerable cutbacks in the loss-making and heavily subsidised coal industry . |
| 24 | At the time of writing the guide Flora 's knowledge and love of Liphook 's countryside and footpaths was well-known . |
| 25 | This is a welcome and long overdue development but at the time of writing the detailed regulations bringing it into force have yet to be published . |
| 26 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 27 | The outspoken tone of the article was typical of the style of writing the periodical was developing with authors shielded by anonymity . |
| 28 | On February 3rd 1817 an entry in his diary hints at the dreariness he found in his marathon task of writing the Guide . |
| 29 | AT THE time of writing the fate of the Report of the TCCB 's Structure Working Party is not known . |
| 30 | At the time of writing the anxiety in Tory Central Office has shifted to sheer bloody panic . |