Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] piece [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by using old pieces of furniture of odd shapes and sizes you may well sacrifice the conventional work surface to retain character . |
| 2 | ‘ The place was full of old men wearing thick glasses scratching around trying to find tiny pieces of paper . ’ |
| 3 | My own view that Sun readers are n't stupid and that the general public is n't really a stupid erm but erm they enjoy reading it and they 're reading for the experience of reading , getting their views and are very almost like , have you ever seen processed cheese slabs , you know you can buy little pieces of cheese in little wrappers that stick on your bread or your butter or your rolls and the way the Sun , the Sun newspaper 's kind of like that , if you do n't wan na read thirty five pages in the Independent every day , enormous amount of news terrifically written , reported for the , for the most part , you could read the Sun at a quarter of the price , except that you do n't get all the news and you also get er a different political viewpoint but it 's one way of getting news in er |
| 4 | It is made from blood thickened with cereals and contains large pieces of fat . |
| 5 | The manor has long since been broken up and sold off and Andrew now only holds small pieces of land , though these include some of the grass and trees where the proclamation is made . |
| 6 | Around fifty works of art will include : four Eastern Zhou bronze vessels dating from the fifth century BC , cast in two different alloys of bronze and inlaid with a design incorporating small pieces of malachite , paste and copper wire ; a bronze male figure of the third to fourth century BC , supporting a candlestick ; of a similar date and from a royal treasury is a bronze and silver ox inlaid with a complex pattern of curved scrolls ; a gold and turquoise garment-hook in the form of three intertwined dragons ; a group of Tang figures including an ochre camel in unglazed earthenware ; and a twelfth-century carved wooden figure of a seated Bodhisattva , last shown in London at Eskenazi 's in 1972 and purchased back for this exhibition . |
| 7 | Bierschinkenwurst is a coarser textured Bierwurst incorporating small pieces of ham . |
| 8 | Children can be encouraged to look back at how they found particular pieces of information and to ask themselves whether this was done in the most efficient way . |
| 9 | Stable isotope analysis ( see glossary ) can be used both to provenance the marble used and to solve some particularly knotty problems caused by over-enthusiastic restoration , where fragmentary pieces were re-assembled , frequently incorporating new pieces of marble , to make the statue appear whole . |
| 10 | Throughout the 1960s and 1970s , when water engineers were falling over themselves to find new pieces of countryside to flood for reservoirs that would meet rising water demand , their water mains were leaking more and more water . |
| 11 | A slim fair-haired girl in a long black dress was threading between the ranks of spectators , holding open a bag into which people dropped folded-up pieces of paper . |
| 12 | Anthony was fine with a pick , apparently , but when it came to scraping away layers of earth with a trowel and saving small pieces of pottery , he simply did not have the patience . |
| 13 | ( ii ) After about 30 min chop the tubules very finely with scissors in a glass Petri dish tilted slightly , allowing large pieces of tubule to settle to the bottom . |
| 14 | But the ethos of professionalism with which police authorities are imbued has led to a recognition that social research can bring valuable results , so they have opened up their leviathan to strangers and specially commissioned specific pieces of research . |
| 15 | She had indeed once worked for a silversmith but had discovered that it was much easier to buy beads and acquire old pieces of jewellery , rearrange them artistically and sell them on market stalls throughout the country . |
| 16 | Security is an overall office function , and the Computing Sub-Group , in its earlier discussions on security , has preferred to deal with it by ensuring that offices are kept as secure as possible , rather than by guarding individual pieces of hardware . |
| 17 | A Lower Saxony state interior ministry spokesman said the woman was hurt when the impact of the dummy bomb threw hard pieces of earth into her face . |
| 18 | And since complicated situations or statements can very easily be broken down into a set of simple statements , this in effect means that computers can store complex pieces of information too . |
| 19 | Leaving aside the occasional inept vinyl-to-CD transfer or wilfully bizarre remix , digital sound and I co-exist quite happily ; my main reason for a return to the vinyl frontier is a hankering to hear certain pieces of music from my retired record collection . |
| 20 | A French armoire with carving in high relief and a painted bergère chair are among his regular stock : he and his partner Neil Mackay now manufacture painted pieces as part of their decoration service . |
| 21 | The codename was chosen because rhyolite is a volcanic rock containing colourful pieces of quartz set in a mass of crystals . |
| 22 | If you like bland pieces of art then you 'll probably be a bland person . |
| 23 | Since the prints of Henry VIII were consigned to the flames at Ealing Studios , it 's not possible to assess what merits Barker 's production may have had , but some idea of the uncinematic monstrosity that was produced is suggested by a contemporary production of Richard III , which consists of 17 scenes played out from the stage to a static camera , interrupted by lengthy titles containing brief pieces of dialogue . |
| 24 | Wrap little pieces of cellophane around and tie with lengths of thin pink ribbon . |
| 25 | This is the most deluded fantasy of all — the idea that , by buying certain pieces of vinyl and by going to certain gigs , instead of consuming a commodity , you are participating and making a contribution to ‘ the struggle ’ . |
| 26 | At Tottenham Court Road there are greatly reduced one-off pieces of furniture that are either shop-soiled , damaged or buyers ' samples . |
| 27 | ( This can fail for other languages if they have more general forms of recursion : one can have distinct pieces of syntax unc and unc such that unc and |
| 28 | The cost of feeding and clothing a giant child was astronomical because they demanded large quantities of food and needed large pieces of cloth to cover them . |
| 29 | Most of the walls were topped by a layer of concrete into which were set jagged pieces of glass from smashed bottles . |
| 30 | The vertical column is filled with glass beads or randomly orientated short pieces of glass tubing . |