Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] piece [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 2 | Thus Foxton retained its importance as a place of special interest to canal people , and reinforced its reputation by becoming the site for one of the oddest , most technologically ingenious and most spectacular pieces of engineering in the whole canal system . |
| 3 | The plot may not be the simplest and most direct piece of story-telling that Hofmannsthal gave to strauss — but look below the surface and investigate the symbols . |
| 4 | His daughter , eleven years of age , plays the harpsichord in the most brilliant manner ; she performs the longest and most difficult pieces with an astonishing precision . |
| 5 | In the search for alternatives , eyes are turning away from faraway galaxies and towards the nearest and most humdrum piece of astrophysics : the sun . |
| 6 | From the ergonomic and looks point of view , at any rate , the EPL 4300 is , to me , a good looking and easily manageable piece of equipment . |
| 7 | It is a savage and immensely powerful piece of sculpture , reminding one that Christianity is not a religion of sweetness and light and that much of its appeal must have lain in its very primitivism . |
| 8 | Yet the need is such that our spending at home and overseas has doubled in the last two years and still vital pieces of work in the U K and overseas await funding . |
| 9 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 10 | His Bristol ewer and basin of 1736 are two of the most original and historically important pieces of early English rococo silver . |
| 11 | Ten years ago , a computer was a large , static and very expensive piece of machinery , operated by an expert elite who communicated with it in a language which only they understood . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it is a very bold and very clever piece of work indeed . |