Example sentences of "be write [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 2 | He could have been writing about van Gogh . |
| 3 | Until very late the previous night I had been writing about Krakatoa and trials by Fire , and was deeply asleep when the cat woke me . |
| 4 | JANE MACQUITTY has been writing about wine since 1975 and is wine correspondent for The Times . |
| 5 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 6 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 7 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |
| 8 | They could have been writing under Stalin : ‘ Life in blocks of apartments … means living under the close scrutiny of your neighbours . |
| 9 | So long as the traveller historians and geographers , such as Herodotus and Pliny the Elder , Chau Ju-Kwa and Ibn Batuta , Friar Odoric and Marco Polo , are writing as eye-witness observers , most of what they report is entirely factual and authentic . |
| 10 | If you are writing about Eliot 's poem The Waste Land ( published in 1922 ) for example , you might consider it relevant to know about other events of that year ( or the years when it was being written ) , and so you could look up 1922 in the index to the London newspaper The Times ( the poem is set partly in London and was published there ) . |
| 11 | I am writing to second her proposal ! ! |
| 12 | However , I am writing to Alan Harlow to state our disappointment ; to point out that we can not continue to pay subscriptions if the grant is not increased ; that we are doing our best to find sponsorship ( I 've written , on my own initiative , to 3 companies who might be willing to help , on environmental grounds ) ; that sponsorship from SNH is pretty unlikely , a ) because they do n't do any core funding , and b ) because the NCC element appears to be dominant there anyway ; that sponsorship from the Sports Council is also unlikely , though we are seeking a meeting with Terry Dowey of SSA as soon as possible . |
| 13 | The reason I am writing to Mamma is to show her that I know my duty and that I am with the deepest respect her devoted son . ’ |
| 14 | I am writing with reference to the letter in January 's Talkback , from P. Barnett , who requests details of a local society which he can join . |
| 15 | I am writing on behalf of the Princes Trust Community Venture in Cornwall . |
| 16 | I am writing on behalf of organisations in Bath and Wiltshire which provide residential services to people with learning difficulties . |
| 17 | I AM writing on behalf of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection to ask you to support the Walk for Laboratory Animals on Sunday , September 26 , at 31 venues . |
| 18 | I AM writing on behalf of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) to ask your readers to support the Walk For Laboratory Animals which is happening on |
| 19 | I AM writing on behalf of the ships company of HMS Active , and in particular the Petty Officers ' mess , to formally thank the city of Liverpool for the excellent hospitality that has been shown to us during our visit . |
| 20 | I am writing as Chairman of Darlington Business Venture and Darlington Enterprise Association Ltd to ensure people are not taken in . |
| 21 | I am writing in response to your recent article The profession of chemistry by W. Fritsche ( Chem . |
| 22 | I am writing in response to Mr. John Goldsmith 's letter in the April Pilot in which he claims that our 1:500,000 aeronautical charts suffer from an ‘ appalling lack of clarity ’ and are printed ‘ through blotting paper ’ . |
| 23 | I am writing in response to the letter from Gordon Lewis about the Ministry of Defence in your May edition . |
| 24 | I AM writing in response to Mr. Gage 's letter in September RW&P in which he says that there is not a proper step between the club rugby and international rugby in England and that there will be too many league matches for top players . |
| 25 | I AM writing in response to the letter from Melvyn J. Stigle in SRN No. 207 . |
| 26 | I AM writing in response to the recent review in the Echo by Lew Baxter of ‘ Good Rockin' Tonite ’ at the Liverpool Empire . |
| 27 | I am writing in response to the reference in ‘ Troon on TV ’ today to the couple from New Orleans . |
| 28 | I am writing in support of ‘ Eldorado ’ . |
| 29 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |
| 30 | I am writing in reply to your letter of 30 June 1993 to our Director enclosing copies of leaflets you have recently produced . |