Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] piece [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Oh , yeah that 's it ! 22 players kicking a leather sphere up and down a big piece of grass !
2 This could operate rather like a personal TESSA and would be a er tax free savings account , which would allow a small business to save for a perhaps a major piece of machinery in a tax free environment .
3 So a final piece of advice .
4 It 's only a small piece of carpet .
5 There was quite a good helping of pudding but only a tiny piece of meat .
6 Chapman , 23 , of Norwood Road , Herne Hill , south London , was fined £80 and ordered to pay £50 costs by magistrates at Streatham , south London , for leaving Ziggy for six days without water and only a tiny piece of cheese to eat .
7 There were probably a number of them in Britain , but they must have left very little archaeological trace , needing only a flat piece of ground , probably outside the towns , marked out with wood rails and probably a stand at the finishing post for the local dignitaries and wealthy citizens .
8 I am out here alone , unprotected , only a thin piece of plastic-canvas away from lions , buffalo , leopards and hyena .
9 He referred to that witness 's testimony as ‘ only a formal piece of evidence . ’
10 The remaining police officer contributed ‘ only a formal piece of evidence . ’
11 Wary of the advantages the Kiwi teams had had on home ground , Fusil refused to name the route , but still made one vital error ( and gave away a crucial piece of information for the Costa Rican teams ) by saying it would be a coast-to-coast race across the Central American country .
12 I was just thinking rather than having plain which you 'd have to pay for anyway a plain piece of glass and , and er putting lead on it yourself I think that 's a brilliant idea that .
13 It gives details of Radio 4 's New Year Day item based on the Lady Chatterley trial , with this note by Michael Green , the controller : ‘ It 's not just a seminal piece of history … ‘
14 ‘ On ‘ Into The Fire ’ , for example , I 'm really proud of Keith 's playing , especially on Native Son — just a fantastic piece of guitar work .
15 Oh , and maybe just a tiny piece of advice : next time you , quote , ‘ risk life and limb ’ I suggest you check first that the person does need rescuing .
16 This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time .
17 It 's just a little piece of art .
18 So that they just needed more or less scrubbing out and put on Put into drainers , you know just a big piece of wood with holes cut in so that you could fit them in and would n't fall off , and dry them over the heat .
19 The actual place and time of writing of the manuscript by the author , Wilkie Collins , or indeed the identity of the author , is not a necessary piece of information for the reader to interpret the text .
20 He 's not a nasty piece of work , though .
21 Other accessories are the intarsia carriage ( AG20 ) for picture knitting ; the transfer carriage ( RT1 ) for transferring stitches from the ribber to the main bed and the Automatic Linker ( SC3 ) — this is not a large piece of equipment , but a small carriage that fits on the main bed .
22 The fragment , presented as ( 5 ) , is not a constructed piece of text , it is taken from a recorded conversation .
23 She was not a dead piece of meat , he said , but very energetic in bed .
24 The man for the crisis proved to be Downton , who stayed with Gower till the end , which came when Botham declared on 302 for 6 ; they were helped by Marshall not being able to bowl , but it was still a fine piece of concentration of which Ken Barrington would have been proud .
25 The rear bar which protect-the back of the cab is hardly a substantial piece of engineering and i-too flimsy to tie anything to .
26 He peeled off a large piece of newspaper from the top and unwrapped five small parcels , inside which lay several home-baked cakes .
27 The levy in mass against the Gauls is still mentioned in the charter granted to the " colonia Genetiva Julia " in Spain in 44 B.C. , when it was presumably a simple piece of antiquarianism , if it did not allude to Caesar 's recent wars .
28 It had been a very long night to pass on a tiny piece of sandwich .
29 I 've had rather a surprising piece of news , that 's all . ’
30 It is an opportunity for you to develop and demonstrate your skill in identifying , carrying out , and writing up a discrete piece of research , using the academic concepts , the theoretical insights and the practical abilities acquired on your course .
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