Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [adj] piece [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clear and obvious course for America is to legalise cocaine so the trade can be controlled , but there is no way that we shall ever persuade the airheads in Congress of that most obvious piece of wisdom . |
| 2 | There were some rather good pieces of furniture and china . |
| 3 | The object of this rather clumsy piece of administration is to place some check on the expenditure of local money on the arts — and also to provide a further checkpoint on students who have already received educational grants for other careers . |
| 4 | Sir , I invite you attach no importance at all to that ridiculous concept in relation to this highly important piece of land . |
| 5 | Dealers have been showered with complaints about this highly sophisticated piece of equipment which has apparently developed a serious fault . |
| 6 | There was a moment of silence while Lisa took in this frankly astonishing piece of information . |
| 7 | The usual household expendables , a suitcase containing some fairly valuable pieces of pewter ( dumped by mistake ? or stolen and dumped in fear ? ) and , an item which made Pascoe whistle slightly , two guns . |
| 8 | Sooner or later , out of monologues like this , some really vital piece of information was liable to emerge . |
| 9 | Every so often , and it 's not often enough , we at Guitarist Mansions get a review guitar through the post which is well-built , reasonably priced , nicely styled and which does what it says it does , with no design gimmickry , cheap glitter or high-falutin' bumph claiming it to be a ‘ sound revolution ’ , or some equally laughable piece of flannel . |
| 10 | Although his head and body are bent towards her in paternal concern , their tension indicates that he wants to be elsewhere ; away from hysterical females , generally , and , in particular , at his lunchdate with the Chinese antique dealer who has hinted over the telephone that he has some particularly fine pieces of Ban Chieng that the National Museum will never see hidden away in his back room . |
| 11 | No doubt the publishers would claim that it was all in the pursuit of the greater truth , in the way that the slimy tabloids and the unspeakable Sunday Times do when they are parading some particularly unpleasant piece of gossip . |
| 12 | One was to paint the roofs of LA big armaments plants to look like suburban gardens ( for fear of Japanese bombing ) ; the other was this quite extraordinary piece of cartoon propaganda . |
| 13 | The second effort was another wonderfully alert piece of rugby . |
| 14 | Of course , it is quite another matter to go on to argue from this very limited piece of evidence that loss of the fricative in /xt/ was embedded in the English language as a whole as a completed sound-change at this early date . |
| 15 | When the time comes it will be important to oppose strongly this very dangerous piece of legislation . |
| 16 | I wonder how much money we taxpayers paid for these completely useless pieces of information . |
| 17 | Whether your aims are physique development or figure improvement , the vast majority of the exercises you will need to do can be carried out with these very basic pieces of equipment . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There are several very popular pieces of software available for this , in particular PKZIP and ARC . |
| 20 | erm it might well look like that for that very small piece of graph , but the overall picture you 've lost completely by not going far enough so you , you want minus infinity to plus infinity . |