Example sentences of "wrote the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Irvine , who wrote the SPRU report with Ben Martin , told New Scientist that the results raise questions about British policy towards high-energy physics in the past 20 years . |
| 2 | Whoever wrote the prologue saw the compilation of a law-code , rightly or wrongly , not in the context of earlier Roman legislation , which culminated in the Theodosian Code , but in that of the pronouncement of law by the law-men of small communities . |
| 3 | ‘ Though speaking from the longest distance , ’ wrote the editor of the Highbury Quadrant Church magazine , ‘ Mr Dawson , as on previous occasions , was best heard of all . |
| 4 | ‘ The summoning of the Ecumenical Council ’ , wrote the editor of his diary , ‘ was entirely his own initiative and in capite under his own jurisdiction ’ ( Roncalli , 1965 , p. 345 ) . |
| 5 | Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories . |
| 6 | I talked to Assemblyman Barry Keene , who , as Chairman of the California State Assembly Health Committee , wrote the bill and piloted it through the Legislature , and asked him first whether he felt that before the Act there was a grey area of uncertainty surrounding these problems . |
| 7 | Rizzo maintains no more than that it is possible that he wrote the poem . |
| 8 | I wrote the poem Zenobia while staying on the Greek island of Crete . |
| 9 | Dorothy tells us that Wordsworth wrote the poem ‘ long after ’ , as was his usual custom . |
| 10 | Tennyson wrote the poem very quickly , after reading a report in The Times which included the phrase ‘ someone had blundered ’ . |
| 11 | ’ It is already possible to apply ( gene analysis ) methods for the early foetal diagnosis of these disorders ( haemophilia and other anaemias ) , and over the next few years it may even be possible to replace defective genes ’ , wrote the geneticist David Weatherall in an article on the new Institute for Molecular Medicine in Oxford . |
| 12 | Carla , 58 , who wrote the TV series Bread , will move her pets into Broadhurst Manor , West Sussex — the new HQ for her Animal Line charity . |
| 13 | By the way , after writing to you on Sunday , the mood came , and I wrote the story of Kheydius , 12 close pages , straight off , almost satisfactorily , too . |
| 14 | She wrote the story , and then she gave it to me . |
| 15 | When Lahr wrote the story , Ken insisted on a line in which the man asked him to ‘ give me a fuck ’ being removed . |
| 16 | As there was no suitable textbook , he and another schoolmaster in Rugby decided to write not one , but two , and he also wrote The Mathematics of Physics for Biologists , who often find the mathematical aspects of Physics rather difficult . |
| 17 | Neville , wrote the reporter , was the editor of the controversial Sydney paper Oz . |
| 18 | If , as the sub who wrote the title suggests , there is another side to the truth , then we would be happy I first of all , and then those who admire Manzoni to see reliable and contemporary documents which prove it . |
| 19 | And once programs are provided on Ceefax there is no way that the people who wrote the software can recoup the cost from the final users — the schools . |
| 20 | Yukio wrote the software . ’ |
| 21 | A back-up safety system for the UK 's nuclear power station controllers may not work properly because bugs in the computer software have not been eliminated , according to a former employee of the company that wrote the software . |
| 22 | ‘ You know my connection with this brothers , ’ wrote the earl , ‘ and I believe he is a very fine lad . ’ |
| 23 | A similar proposal by the Tory backbencher Mr Jonathan Aitken — who wrote the foreword to Mr Day 's book — during the Commons debate on the Security Service Act this year , was rejected by Home Office ministers despite growing support inside Whitehall for a system of independent oversight . |
| 24 | Bud Collins , one of America 's leading tennis commentators and writers , who wrote the foreword , assures me that he has seen Wegner prove the point by teaching newcomers from seven to seventy keep a reasonable rally going within two hours of them first picking up a racket . |
| 25 | Had the man who wrote the foreword been at No. 10 in those days he would doubtless have seen to it that this cricketer who displayed such honourable patriotism and high personal standards was given some decoration or other . |
| 26 | She wrote the foreword . |
| 27 | The person who wrote the computer program used to assist in the creation of the types of works described above has no rights in the work because , although the programmer may control or influence the format of the finished work , he has no control or influence on the content . |
| 28 | Interestingly , and controversially , the Act appears to ignore the skill and expertise of the person or persons who wrote the computer program used to generate these works . |
| 29 | The content of the output produced is the result of the skill and effort of the person using the computer and the skill and effort of the person who wrote the computer program and/or the person who produced any database used . |
| 30 | no I do n't , you never wrote the cheque out |