Example sentences of "writing a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find that I am writing a kind of completely sterile account of their life . |
| 2 | I was writing a comedy with sinister undertones about the villa renters and expats of Chiantishire . |
| 3 | While emphatically denying that he had acted improperly — Richardson claimed that his resignation was motivated by the desire to avoid damaging the ALP 's prospects in the next federal elections , due by mid-1993 — he admitted meeting Symons in his Senate office , writing a reference for him , and telephoning Amata Kabua , President of the Marshall Islands , after Symons was arrested . |
| 4 | Gombrich 's scholarly work includes many papers on meaning and interpretation in the visual arts , so that the broad but thin scope of his story of art is instructive ; by writing a survey he inevitably limited himself to a narrow range of comment . |
| 5 | Request : that eternal campaigner for true justice was asked if he would consider writing a foreword for a book titled ‘ An Eye For An Eye , A Tooth For A Tooth ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Your book has strong appeal and I would be pleased to consider writing a foreword . |
| 7 | Hincmar in The Government of the Palace was writing a prescription for effective rulership . |
| 8 | You are writing a detective novel : you have pledged to your readers that there will be a good measure of detection still . |
| 9 | At first , writing a personal experience of cancer seemed little different from writing a thriller . |
| 10 | I see the school writing a self-appraisal and want to see how far it is doing what it said in practice . ’ |
| 11 | Otherwise information is filtered through other books : for example , an archaeologist studying the archaeology of a particular region might publish a book which includes a summary of the site information , and which in turn is used as a source by someone writing a school textbook . |
| 12 | I had hoped to be writing a birth report about how wonderful it is to use a large pool of warm water in labour . |
| 13 | Bean , writing a year later in 1984 , supported this view by saying that ‘ when the adopted child is an older child who has already acquired a cultural background and a set of cultural responses , these will have to be unlearned if he or she is to acquire a new cultural identity ’ . |
| 14 | In fact , she has succeeded in assembling a show and writing a companion catalogue both informed by history and informative as well . |
| 15 | When he was a child and his mother was ill , he thought he could make her better by writing a play . |
| 16 | One still made her laugh : ‘ Have you ever tried writing a play ? ’ the little girl asked the dog who was typing on top of his kennel . |
| 17 | It is a safe guess that no Indian thought of writing a play about the equally dramatic course of events that put Charles II on his throne . |
| 18 | There remained one last work for him to complete ; already he had begun writing a play which was to concern a successful public man who , at the end of his life , is waiting for death . |
| 19 | This tutor was a protégé of Robert and was more interested in writing a play for the Edinburgh festival than in teaching us . |
| 20 | Hornung collaborated with Eugene Presbrey in writing a play in four acts — Raffles , the Amateur Cracksman — which was produced by Sir Gerald du Maurier [ q.v. ] with himself as Raffles , and ran in London for two years and in New York for 168 performances . |
| 21 | The idea for the play came about while Dei was still at college , working at a women 's refuge and writing a play about battered women . |
| 22 | He 's been writing a column for the Sunday Express , occupying the space most famously enjoyed by John Junor , the laird of Auchtermuchty . |
| 23 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |
| 24 | But I got my own back — at the time I was writing a column for the Guardian , so I wrote '20 Things You Did n't Know About the Editor of The Sun ’ — the Editor of The Sun wears his pyjamas over his head and he has twelve daughters , all called Spot . |
| 25 | Felicity wondered whether attendance was compulsory , but Joshua explained that , as he was writing a column for next Sunday 's Observer , it would be as well to look in . |
| 26 | ‘ Literacy means more than learning a code or writing a word . |
| 27 | Of the first thirty cantos by themselves , no account is more plausible than that of a writer in the New York Herald Tribune Books for 9 January 1927 , who decided : ‘ Mr Pound is avowedly writing a history of the Mediterranean basin' . |
| 28 | I am now writing a history of the company in readiness for its centenary in 1999 . |
| 29 | Derrida focuses on Foucault 's claim that in Madness and Civilization he is writing a history of the Other . |
| 30 | I 'm writing a history of climbing in the Peak District from 1930 to the present . |