Example sentences of "to write [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virtually unexplored and uncharted until the mid-nineteenth century , this area was the inspiration of artists , musicians and writers — composer Edvard Grieg spent his summers here and playwright Henrik Ibsen was inspired to write Peer Gynt by the legends and folklore of this part of Norway . |
| 2 | EUROFORM also funded Telford to write support materials for the Experiencing Europe modules . |
| 3 | When he came to write Paradise Lost , Milton on four occasions deliberately spoke in his own person in a way very close to the opening of Lucidas , or to the programme which that last sentence suggests to us . |
| 4 | Call it a rites-of-passage novel , a coming-of-age novel or a coming-out novel , it is usually a writer 's way of exploring how the early years can irritate to life the otherwise dormant sensitivities that produce the itch to write fiction . |
| 5 | We particularly urge that children should be encouraged to write fiction , poetry , plays , diaries , book reviews and so on , in response to the literature they have enjoyed and shared and discussed with their teacher and classmates . |
| 6 | They should also be encouraged to write fiction , poetry , plays , diaries , book reviews and so on , in response to the literature they have enjoyed and shared and discussed with their teacher and classmates . |
| 7 | He is passionately devoted to the English and American novel : his first remembered literary emotion was provoked by reading Hawthorne 's short story The Minister 's Black Veil , which gave him the ambition to write fiction himself . |
| 8 | He encouraged her to write fiction . |
| 9 | She began to write fiction in 1912 while staying in Cornwall with friends . |
| 10 | He was going to write fiction , and to write fiction you had to gather facts about life : tales , emotions , relationships . |
| 11 | He was going to write fiction , and to write fiction you had to gather facts about life : tales , emotions , relationships . |
| 12 | Madame Proust had not greatly favoured his desire to write fiction . |
| 13 | The device is used to write computer information onto discs and then read it back again . |
| 14 | Users do not need to write computer programs , it says . |
| 15 | Users reportedly do not need to write computer programs . |
| 16 | There has recently been a sharp rise of interest in artificial intelligence — very broadly the attempt to write computer programs to work at a human level of intelligence and performance in such tasks as identifying and recognising objects in cluttered environments , understanding ordinary human languages such as English , or diagnosing what is wrong in cases of human illness or machine failure . |
| 17 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 18 | Production and publication of The Rock led directly to Eliot 's being invited to write Murder in the Cathedral , which took further his idea of committed Christian drama and his warnings about the dangers of a society cut off from its religious roots . |
| 19 | I had to write string quartets and little symphonies and I had to write jazz melodies over chords and , eventually , I had to write down my own music . |
| 20 | That 's a sponge OK , gon na have to write sponge there . |
| 21 | Question : When I used to write batch files under MS-DOS 4 using EDLIN , I used to add ‘ beeps ’ to alert the user that something had happened by entering the command ECHO ∘VG |
| 22 | With programming assessments it is possible to write test harnesses that check whether the program works . |
| 23 | Alternatively , subjects can be invited to write continuation sentences after a sentence of interest , and the incidence of plural or singular anaphoric pronouns in the continuations can be used as an index of preference . |
| 24 | He admits to having wanted always to write poetry but doubts whether he can attribute that entirely to his rebellion . |
| 25 | I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather . |
| 26 | Had he lived , and continued in his intention to write poetry , he would probably now be another ageing rocker with literary pretensions , creaking his wares around the stadiums just like the Stones , The Who , Dylan and the Grateful Dead . |
| 27 | If Susanna Jennens was alone much of the time , there is no reason to doubt that she gave attention to her kitchen maid and that she encouraged her to read and to write poetry . |
| 28 | 17.29 We believe that , throughout the school years , all children should have ample opportunities to write poetry , either singly or in groups ; this is made explicit in the programmes of study . |
| 29 | ( v ) They should have plenty of opportunities to write poetry ( whether individually , or in small groups or as a class ) and to experiment with different layouts , rhymes , rhythms , verse structures , and with all kinds of sound effects and verbal play . |
| 30 | While Dorothy was making the first entries in her journal that new year Coleridge continued to write poetry with undiminished fluency , both at Stowey and Alfoxden . |