Example sentences of "[prep] write the [noun] " in BNC.

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31 You can take poem , add s , and get the plural poems ; poem 's is accordingly an incorrect way of writing the plural of poem because you have used the wrong suffix .
32 Therefore a person who writes a program in COBOL infringes no copyright in the process of writing the program .
33 At the time of writing the appeal total stands at nearly £3,000 but that still means another £14,000 is needed .
34 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 .
35 At time of writing the World Series Cup is incomplete and not included , but South Africa 's historic tour of India and the October Sharjah competition are accounted for .
36 The outspoken tone of the article was typical of the style of writing the periodical was developing with authors shielded by anonymity .
37 At the time of writing the Stock Exchange has passed on 185 cases of suspected insider trading to the Department of Trade and Industry since 1980 , of which there have been only twenty-two prosecutions and twelve convictions .
38 Er , a particular concern at the time of writing the report was the position concerning the long outstanding proposals to develop to redevelop the two sites in Harlow erm to date we have no information from the county , er , there was scheduled to be erm , the meeting due to take place on the twenty second of September but the county er cancelled that meeting so it 's impossible at this stage to give any further comment on that erm although I believe that matter 's being taken up .
39 At the time of writing the details of the criminal penalty have not been revealed .
40 At the time of writing the fee for this valuation will vary between £50 and £200 according to the purchase price .
41 At the time of writing the fee stands at £30 for a three year period .
42 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 .
43 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 .
44 So wrote Betty Friedan , who was a suburban housewife in the act of writing the book which was to shatter this image .
45 One of the pleasures of writing the book has been the attempt to settle an amicable debate of our own .
46 Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship .
47 Immediately after the war , when Bullett first approached Freud er , with the idea of writing the book , Freud was apparently feeling very depressed , and er , he was savagely critical of his own work , and er , because he had little access to patients during the war , he generally felt quite down and also by presenting written for him , all he would need to wr all he would need to write , and according to er , other people , perhaps he was eating , he was receiving just sort of waiting to die .
48 But instead of writing the information on its own disk , the London computer instantly sends the information to its counterpart in New York , which stores it centrally , on its disk .
49 Conan Doyle 's celebrated creation had never been fully explained in the books , the ploy of writing the novels from Doctor Watson 's perspective avoiding any need to explain or qualify Holmes 's astonishing brilliance and motivation .
50 Interesting , though scarcely decorative , was an early custom of writing the author 's name and title in ink on the fore-edge — a reminder of times when spines carried no information and books were often put on shelves in a way we would consider back-to-front , with the fore-edge outwards .
51 At the time of writing the guide Flora 's knowledge and love of Liphook 's countryside and footpaths was well-known .
52 On February 3rd 1817 an entry in his diary hints at the dreariness he found in his marathon task of writing the Guide .
53 At the time of writing the aircraft is based at Toluca , Mexico , and is being overhauled prior to its ferry flight to Galveston .
54 This is true right down to the detail of how we use electronic mail , for example , in which , until we discover or are shown otherwise , we start from the assumption that this is a cheaper and more rapid method of writing the sort of letters we always wrote , and that those letters should have the same status , and be stored and referred to in the same way , as the written or typed ( and duplicated ) paper missive .
55 Good progress was made with writing the sheet memoir .
56 Consider those possibilities before writing the problem off as resistance .
57 Before writing the report , the school librarian will have to consider certain factors involved in its compilation and also the consequences of submitting such a report .
58 Stirling 's stated purpose in writing the memo was to suggest that recruiting his unit up to strength should take precedence over the equipping of these new battalions .
59 When he was engaged in writing The Cocktail Party , he was asked how long he would devote himself to the theatre rather than to poetry ; he replied , " Until I can convince people that I know how to write a popular play " .
60 In writing the minutes , which should be done the same evening if you wish to avoid mental stress , the general tenor of the debate , as well as its conclusions , should appear .
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