Example sentences of "[prep] write the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She cheered up after writing the experiment because she had obviously done it rather well . |
| 4 | ‘ I read Women Who … halfway through writing the novel , ’ Zoë says , ‘ it was not a direct inspiration , but it was very validating ’ . |
| 5 | Guidelines for writing the message |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | In examinations for entry into the national civil service , the choice for writing the answer scripts is between Hindi and English . |
| 10 | You must always keep your reader in mind because he or she is the true reason for writing the report . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This was another reason for writing the book . |
| 14 | At the time of writing the Chancery Bar offers considerably better prospects than the common law ; there is reported to be a shortage of good applicants for tenancies . |
| 15 | At any rate , his strange story , told thirty years later , forges another link in the chain of associations , so that Wordsworth , years afterwards , in the last stanza , can still see Matthew ‘ at that moment ’ of finishing his story , though he too , at the time of writing the poem , is also ‘ in his grave ’ . |
| 16 | Schemes will no longer be considered for registration where the fixed percentage of profit or the specified amount of the notional pool to be distributed as PRP depend on a formula that can not be determined at the time of writing the scheme ( p 103 ) . |
| 17 | Under a new Statement of Practice ( SP 7/92 ) , schemes will no longer be considered for registration where the fixed percentage or the specified amount of the notional pool depend on a formula which can not be determined at the time of writing the scheme . |
| 18 | Firstly , there was the bare fact that two London East Enders , both of whom had left school at fifteen and were quite untutored in writing , had felt so passionately about their situation that , in different prisons and unknown to each other , they had each set themselves the daunting task of writing the equivalent of full-length books . |
| 19 | At the time of writing the anxiety in Tory Central Office has shifted to sheer bloody panic . |
| 20 | Nobody in 1935 is capable of writing the sequel to the books of 1933 . |
| 21 | At the time of writing the education control system is undergoing changes . |
| 22 | By 1989 the church was meeting in fortnightly celebrations in Raynes Park High School and at the time of writing the church has grown to a membership of 300 . |
| 23 | Lot was inspired by Ernst Dümmler 's Geschichte des ostfränkischen Reiches , to write not annals but a history of Charles 's reign : " But we have kept tightly within the frame of our subject : while M. Duemmler , under colour of writing the history of the East Frankish kingdom , has dealt almost as much with the history of Italy , of Lotharingia , of West Francia , we have devoted ourselves uniquely to the study of this last country , seen from a political point of view " . |
| 24 | At the time of writing the investor may often be uncertain where to turn . |
| 25 | At the time of writing the Conservatives are taking these developments much further ; they plan for a centrally determined basic curriculum , with obviously a strong emphasis on the three Rs , a system of testing at various stages in the educational process , and the development of centrally funded schools removed from local authority control . |
| 26 | AT THE time of writing the fate of the Report of the TCCB 's Structure Working Party is not known . |
| 27 | At time of writing the allowance would normally go to the husband unless , that is , he has a low income and can not use all or part of the allowance — in which case , he can transfer the unused part to his wife in order not to lose the tax benefit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When I write a system for a client , then I do the documentation in advance of writing the system . |
| 30 | We have then , an author and an actual time and place of writing the novel ( or a series of times and places ) . |