Example sentences of "piece of [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because until G C S E you are fed , the school is fed , in that you are told fairly quickly what you have to do and although I know that a number of you spends the right amount of time or a lot of time on homework , you are told usually , er you have erm a night or two nights in which to do this particular piece of work now once you get into the sixth form |
| 2 | If you take erm Depends on the shape of them , but very often if you put a piece of newspaper round and then face the corner of one into the into you could put one into the bottom of the next and do it in a square . |
| 3 | The main thing is to get a piece of paper between each piece of glassware so that if it does move , And if you j you just pack a piece of paper in er er fold it over a little er and push it in , i i so you stop movement . |
| 4 | The best are those where the head is made from a single piece of metal rather than where individual teeth are riveted into place . |
| 5 | Indeed given the opportunity it might be better for someone publishing obscene or indecent literature to be charged under one piece of legislation rather than another , since one might permit more or better defences . |
| 6 | The frontispiece from a copy of the music from the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg was a beautiful piece of artwork even before it was decorated , so I only arranged some flowers in two of the corners , rather than all the way round , which would have overpowered the original design . |
| 7 | That used to be with er a piece of net in and across the top used to have two piece of wire , one way , and two piece the other and you catch a crab open the crab open and they used to put the crab between there and the whelks used to feed on the crab and then when you pulled it out , they all went to the bottom of the net . |
| 8 | But Cad took in their neglect of her sister , and she put down her piece of bread steadily and stood to leave . |
| 9 | The stove remains quite a complex piece of engineering however and careful handling and maintenance is necessary . |
| 10 | Rather , Flew claims that the idea of ‘ open competition for scarce opportunities ’ is less ambiguous than that of ‘ equality of opportunity ’ ; that it is , in our metaphor , a level piece of ground rather than a slippery slope ; and that it is clearly distinct from that of absolute equality of outcome . |
| 11 | An 18-cm ( 6-in ) ruler is not only used for its measuring abilities when framing designs , but also if you are working directly on to a piece of material rather than card , it is easy to slip the ruler under the fabric when you sign your picture . |
| 12 | Dressmakers who might prefer to sell a valuable piece of material rather than settle for the modest profit of making it into a dress . |
| 13 | In 1979 , J. A. G. Griffith , Professor of Public Law at the London School of Economics , made the point that : " it is still quite common to hear the constitution described — even lovingly described — as a piece of machinery cleverly and subtly constructed to enable the will of the people to be transmitted through its elected representatives who make laws instructing its principal committee , the Cabinet , how to administer the affairs of the state , with the help of an impartial civil service and under the benevolent wisdom of a neutral judiciary . |
| 14 | Before you try it on your garment , knit a test piece of band so that you can perfect the technique . |
| 15 | She read the piece of paper again and again . |
| 16 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 17 | A friend of mine did it erm they did n't burn the erm the spirit when they 'd finished and erm you know you 're meant to actually put a piece of paper under and burn it under the light or smash the glass and erm for the next six months she could n't sleep properly and it felt like there , she was like tormented and erm things were like pulling at her , her bedclothes and I swear she 's like seeing a psy a psychia psychiatrist and she had to sleep in her parents ' room and everything really scary . |
| 18 | and then it winds another piece of paper in and starts printing again |
| 19 | After dinner we would gossip , play cards or perhaps walk along the Dee , idly picking up a piece of driftwood here and there along the way . |
| 20 | They do not , however , collect bone , and they mostly gnaw larger pieces of bone rather than small mammal bone . |
| 21 | Artefacts are frequently reconstructed before they are put on display , which may involve little more than repair work , such as sticking pieces of pot together and filling any remaining gaps . |
| 22 | James — though younger — butted his pieces of wood so that the train ran smoothly over the joins . |
| 23 | The homeboys call it ‘ Ghostbusting ’ , the tendency to see pieces of crack everywhere after you 've smoked your own supply . |
| 24 | Put the pieces of glass aside while you screw the sides of the frame in position . |
| 25 | Wrap little pieces of cellophane around and tie with lengths of thin pink ribbon . |
| 26 | Roll out half to a large square , place the roof-sized pieces of paper over and use to cut out the icing . |
| 27 | Alright , what we 're going to do now , is just give you your er , pieces of paper back so you 'll need your logs , yes . |
| 28 | Smith devised a technique using eight pieces of latex rather than one overall mask , including convincing eyelids . |