Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] piece of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 2 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 3 | This is one of the most progressive pieces of legislation in the world in attempting to establish equality between men and women as the rule in marriage . |
| 4 | Going against the grain of long split skirts and leather jeans , some of the most striking pieces of womenswear for winter come from Issey Miyake . |
| 5 | ‘ Alongside the coffee machine , a fryer is the most profitable piece of machinery in a restaurant — providing you use the right equipment for your purposes . |
| 6 | The plot may not be the simplest and most direct piece of story-telling that Hofmannsthal gave to strauss — but look below the surface and investigate the symbols . |
| 7 | Your report on the Escort LX ( 3 October ) must be one of the most peculiar pieces of motoring journalism ever published . |
| 8 | Another group , exclusively male , was gathered around what Sendei guessed was a highly advanced piece of technology . |
| 9 | The Public Order Act was a necessary but highly controversial piece of legislation . |
| 10 | The carpenter puts together shaped pieces of wood to make a table . |
| 11 | Dealers have been showered with complaints about this highly sophisticated piece of equipment which has apparently developed a serious fault . |
| 12 | long , long plain pieces of area you could |
| 13 | Sir , I invite you attach no importance at all to that ridiculous concept in relation to this highly important piece of land . |
| 14 | In fact , the Act ( which is an extremely complicated piece of legislation ) did not succeed in abolishing the tied cottage . |
| 15 | He was already gathering together various pieces of paper . |
| 16 | When creating a curved shape always try to use as many naturally curved pieces of plant material as possible — their shapes will help to accentuate the mood and rhythm of your design , as well as add continuity . |
| 17 | He told various parables to illustrate what the Kingdom of God is like : it is like a person discovering treasure in a field , so he sells everything he has and buys the field ; or like finding an extremely expensive piece of jewellery . |
| 18 | It 's a constant amazement how an apparently harmless piece of rubbish can become an animal 's enemy . |
| 19 | Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that the Winchester bypass is one of the most dangerous pieces of road in the country ? |
| 20 | If I can just join in the Scum-bashing here , am I the only person that thinks Sharpe is the most over-rated piece of crap ever to have pulled on a red shirt ( and they 've had quite a few ) ? |
| 21 | The Customer Information Control Service once the most mainframe-esque piece of software , will ship on the AS/400 this month and on the RS/6000 in June . |
| 22 | It is sad to report , then , that both shows are utterly conventional pieces of theatre . |
| 23 | This means that it is not necessary to know the total number of items in advance , because each item is a separately allocated piece of memory . |
| 24 | It is a savage and immensely powerful piece of sculpture , reminding one that Christianity is not a religion of sweetness and light and that much of its appeal must have lain in its very primitivism . |
| 25 | What Wieman has done — as well as reaching the lowest temperature on record — is to simplify what has been an immensely complex piece of laboratory apparatus . |
| 26 | ‘ An overly complicated piece of subterfuge perhaps . |
| 27 | A vice is a useful but not essential piece of equipment . |
| 28 | From the ergonomic and looks point of view , at any rate , the EPL 4300 is , to me , a good looking and easily manageable piece of equipment . |
| 29 | And that is for a popular tourist destination airfield , squeezed incredibly between mountain cliff faces in one of the most utterly spectacular pieces of scenery this world has to offer ! |
| 30 | There were another three Jet Skis buzzing around on that part of the river and a few water-skiers with their big-engined speedboats , all creating a fair old racket , but we could still hear William laughing ; the guy thought buying a frighteningly expensive piece of machinery and spending most of your time falling off it into the water was just the most enormous wheeze . |