Example sentences of "piece of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , you can always refer to books but this is rarely convenient if you have a piece of work to do for a deadline . |
| 2 | If the final grade is largely determined by course-work marks , how are you to mark a piece of work completed in a pupil 's first term of his introduction to a subject , compared with what he can do after five or six terms ? |
| 3 | He hanged himself from a piece of sheet attached to a ventilation grille . |
| 4 | The sundial looks expensive — the metal part was a Christmas present from his brother , and it sits on a piece of balustrade given by a friend . |
| 5 | But a Visionware official said ‘ there does n't seem to be much point shipping a 32-bit designed piece of software to run in a 16-bit environment . |
| 6 | Eventually , some land was found , and the lady who finds it psychologically impossible for the moment to afford a piece of meat parted with a substantial sum without demur . |
| 7 | All you need for a marker is a Fishing Gazette pike bung or a piece of polystyrene tied to a stone with a length of line about 12 inches longer than the depth of swim . |
| 8 | All you need for each one is a piece of knitting beginning with a hem at the wrist , wide enough to go round the hand and long enough to reach easily to the base of the fingers . |
| 9 | I repeat the action with the other rod , only this time there is a large piece of flake pulled from a new loaf on the size 2 hook . |
| 10 | A further piece of chipboard acts as a fascia to disguise the ceiling fixtures |
| 11 | The owner of a piece of land contracted with a building firm for the building of a factory on the land . |
| 12 | This seems a useful technique for any situation where a straight piece of wood ends in a curve , since it maintains the visual integrity of the piece and is considerably easier than laminating a number of separate strips ( which I always find slide out of line while being clamped ) . |
| 13 | Anyway , if you always want to hear a piece of music played in a certain way , you might as well sit at home in the lounge and listen to your favourite , definitive CD recording . |
| 14 | The fisherman reached the shore unharmed and took a piece of tentacle to show to a local naturalist called Moses Harvey . |
| 15 | AN X-ray doctor failed to spot a three-inch piece of glass lodged in a patient 's chest . |
| 16 | The plane is like a flat piece of glass stuck through a jelly . |
| 17 | This elementary piece of wire moving with a velocity dl/dt contributes to the e.m.f. the amount which may be rewritten in the form |
| 18 | The hardware dongle plugs into your parallel printer port ( your printer can remain attached ) and is attached to a piece of wire leading to a small silver sensor . |
| 19 | Anyone , almost , could pick up a stone or work a piece of flint to use as a tool , but making metals was a far more skilled job . |
| 20 | He focused again on the patterns made by damp and mould on a patch of distempered mortar level with his eyes — a piece of coastline seen from a hill , headlands enclosing a bay with a wide curve . |