Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [adj] piece [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had one very good piece of news , which was ‘ During the past year the Environmental Health Department has run fifteen courses for food handlers , and one hundred and eighty-seven people have passed the examination . ’ |
| 2 | Erm , I will start with the two most important pieces of information that I 'm going to give you this afternoon . |
| 3 | There are two very strong pieces of evidence confirming that the examples of inherently restrictive predicative adjectives accompanied by articles must indeed be regarded as entity-identifying expressions : First , they can quite generally appear where entity expressions appear , including positions which are not even superficially available to an ordinary adjective : ( 24 ) the rudest came from your cousin she gave motherly advice to a second , and a stern warning to a third the oldest of the aircraft should be scrapped ( 25 ) the honest deserves the appointment Bert offered a peanut to the untidy the elegant of the vases lay on its side |
| 4 | ‘ In the second coat pocket we found two very large pieces of wood , and inside them were great pieces of metal , very sharp . |
| 5 | Until today , that was , when suddenly two very different pieces of information had come to hand . |
| 6 | A magazine with the vision to run these two very different pieces in the same issue , in the knowledge that they could both appeal to the same reader , deserves applause . |