Example sentences of "[subord] a piece of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Away over towards the canal beyond the golf course , a bridge of coloured light arced to the silent earth just about where her husband would be just now , crouched in his little watchman 's hut , at the foot of the night rainbow , where a piece of heaven had fallen to earth in Ruchill . |
| 2 | I then had another operation , this time for my back where a piece of my spine was removed and a piece of metal inserted . |
| 3 | There was a breakfast room set aside for the train party where a piece of the mystery would unravel each morning . |
| 4 | He now discovered that he had been wounded in the elbow , and was taken to hospital where a piece of bullet casing was removed . |
| 5 | This is now so widely accepted that it seems less like a theory , or even a theoretical framework , than a piece of common sense ; and in one form or another it encompasses the views of the majority of Anglo-American philosophers and neuroscientists about the basis of consciousness or , at the very least , of perception . |
| 6 | We are talking here about notes you are talking for yourself rather than a piece of work which requires your best copper-plate style . |
| 7 | It never struck me that every time I cut my finger and the cut heals , something other than a piece of Elastoplast has rushed to the rescue . |
| 8 | In fact , at room temperature a diamond has a thermal conductivity about six times higher than a piece of copper . |
| 9 | For here lay no more than a piece of meat , oblivious , inanimate , an object to be examined without reverence . |
| 10 | It seemed that anybody could live with the small Louis XIV marquetry table , more an objet d'art than a piece of furniture . |
| 11 | To be honest , the evidence for druids having ever performed such grisly ceremonies is very dubious and the whole thing is probably nothing other than a piece of Romano-Christian propaganda aimed at destroying the pagan religion of the Celts . |
| 12 | Nothing was more calculated to put Comfort in a bad mood than a piece of unnecessary criticism like that . |
| 13 | All the commands are dealt with but seemingly in as few words as possible , it 's more a quick reference guide than a piece of documentation . |
| 14 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 15 | Of course , I had opened it and found nothing more than a piece of costly silk , blood-red and fringed at each end . |
| 16 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 17 | If a piece of tissue is taken from the posterior margin of a mouse limb bud and grafted into the anterior region of a chick limb bud , it too can specify additional digits , but the digits are , of course , chick digits . |
| 18 | If a piece of ordinary glass is heated over a gas flame , it softens easily , and eventually the heated part will gather itself into a drop and fall to the ground . |
| 19 | If a piece of glass is dipped in water , the drops of liquid stay on the surface for several seconds ; with a diamond they run off instantly , leaving the stone dry as a bone . |
| 20 | Your dog will still identify with its bed in a new location , especially if a piece of familiar bedding is provided . |
| 21 | She did n't fall heavily , but lightly , as if a piece of muslin was drifting down to the carpet . |
| 22 | They react to a chemical present in starfish and will perform equally amazing gyrations if a piece of crushed starfish is dropped into the water . |
| 23 | If a piece of information arrives during trading in Japan , it will be reflected in the closing value of the Nikkei Stock Average , will then be incorporated into the value of the FT-SE 100 when London opens , and subsequently into the value of the S&P500 when Chicago starts trading . |
| 24 | If a piece of dark paper about l/z inch in length is moved where a toad can see it , it will snap at it just as if it were an insect ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 25 | If a piece of music is frenetic and forceful , it may well be that an interlude is a peaceful moment like the ‘ calm before the storm ’ . |
| 26 | Reader manipulation is another recurring feature that in some ways is obvious looking at how the book is written but as you 're reading the book you 're practically living in it and when you finish it 's almost as if a piece of your daily routine is missing and because it is an integral part of your life it is hard to distance yourself from it and analyse it . |
| 27 | This is especially true if a piece of evidence with a very strong and obvious bias is used , or if two contrasting views of the same event are chosen and the pupils encouraged to compare the two . |
| 28 | If a piece of metal had flown out of the machine and blinded Brian , the court could hold that the purpose of the statute was to keep the employee out , not the machine in . |
| 29 | Thus ( ignoring a few complications and qualifications ) , if a piece of land was worth £500 in its existing use but was sold for £3,500 with planning permission , the levy was applied to the difference , that is , £3,000 ; the levy , at the initial rate , was £1,200 . |
| 30 | For example , an individual might go to bed later than usual on one occasion because a piece of work or some leisure time activity took longer than normal . |