Example sentences of "[vb -s] write a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , any academic who wants to write a book on a canonical author , topic , or period , is likely to get a contract without very much formality ( particularly if it has to do with ‘ women ’ or ‘ theory ’ , or ideally both ) . |
| 2 | It means the teacher only has to write a word once , in the teacher 's book , instead of thirty-plus times , once in each child 's book . |
| 3 | It 's where he goes when he has to write a speech … ’ |
| 4 | In the latter case the policewoman has to write a report on the child for the superintendent to determine whether or not prosecution should follow . |
| 5 | The former has written a foreword to Everest : The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour ( Little , Brown , May , £25 ) edited by Peter Gillman , which has over 150 colour and black and white photographs . |
| 6 | He has got great bone structure and a really cool Addams Family wardrobe and he has written a novel , let's be fair . |
| 7 | To do this , Digiboard has written a NetWare Loadable Module compatible with the Novell 's NetWare Access Server and Application Server application programming interface . |
| 8 | It 's also been said that Prince , who writes songs for anyone and everyone from Sheena Easton to The Bangles , has written a song specifically for her called ‘ Do Me Baby ’ . |
| 9 | He has written a three-volume catalogue of the Art Institute 's nineteenth-century French paintings ( Abrams , 1987 ) and most recently Pissarro and Pontoise ( Yale , 1990 ) . |
| 10 | An industrial relations expert , who has written a history of cotton unions , has remarked that whereas general historians of the labour movement report only sporadic trade unionism in that industry in the eigh-teenth century , historians of the district or of the industry tend to assume a continuous collective labour presence . |
| 11 | Quite different from any other Spitfire pilot 's story , this ex-41 Sqn pilot has written a racey and humorous account of his 1940–45 experiences — which has also illustrated with his own skilfully drawn cartoons . |
| 12 | right John has written a story about his home right it 's a good descriptive story on how people live |
| 13 | Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime . |
| 14 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 15 | For this year 's Comic Relief , Emma has written a play with Richard Curtis , writer of Blackadder , and Ronnie Paris . |
| 16 | The auction catalogue can also quote from other authorities , which will be inevitable in a case where a scholar has written a catalogue raisonné , and advantageous if the context of the work is made clearer by the artist 's correspondence or other publications . |
| 17 | Claire Gallois , 55 , a blonde , slim , rather beautiful novelist , has written a tract called The Dangerous Years . |
| 18 | Mr Davies has worked hard to affiliate 15 TGWU branches , and has written a pamphlet attacking Mr Field 's views on social policy . |
| 19 | Julian Schnabel , whose work shows in Glimcher 's gallery , has written a screenplay based on the life of the late graffiti artist and Warhol protégé , Jean-Michel Basquiat . |
| 20 | Sources close to the leggy catwalk queen , who signed a £1.2 million pop deal , say she has written a lot of lyrics and whoever matches them best to music will go into the studio with her . |
| 21 | Christina Hardyment has written a number of books , among them Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint 's Trunk . |
| 22 | He has written a number of books , among them a study of Picasso . |
| 23 | Its main ideologist is Boris Kagarlitsky , a young Marxist who has written a number of books that have been published abroad but not yet in the USSR . |
| 24 | The ICL Computer Composition System on the ICL 1903 was used to provide hyphenation and justification facilities in a batch mode and the Press has written a number of programs to perform generalized page make-up as well as specialized indexing , chess validation , dictionary make-up , book cataloguing and other operations . |
| 25 | Tortured by the regime in South Africa , Roche has written a book about it , and now , in the Caribbean , has joined the firm of Sablich 's as a welfare worker , whose job is to define and to publicise the firm 's good intentions toward the community . |
| 26 | All the same , he has written a book committed to proving that Europeans ought to unite . |
| 27 | His inability to rid himself of the woman is a recurrent theme , even though a psychoanalytic institute in the US ( where for some reason another analyst has written a book which presents the patient as a great therapeutic success ) actually sent him money regularly so that he could pay her off when she got too demanding . |
| 28 | But there was worse to come , with Angela Rippon ( the outdoor girl who wishes to be known these days as an incisive reporter ) giving free , uncritical publicity to somebody called Di Francis who has written a book about mysterious , leopard-sized felines roaming Britain . |
| 29 | Michael Palin has written a book , Pole to Pole ( BBC Books , price £16.95 ) , about his latest journey . |
| 30 | BY way of contrast , Jimmy Nail has written a book based on his TV character SPENDER ( Bantam , £4.99 ) . |