Example sentences of "[adv prt] piece of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypertext is not concerned with paper at all , so there is no possibility of students handing in pieces of paper for assessment . |
| 2 | The weathervane , a stainless steel fox , was removed for safe keeping , the children pulled off pieces of the garlands for souvenirs and the hole in the road was filled in . |
| 3 | These fish bite off pieces of coral with their beak-like teeth , to eat the living polyps inside . |
| 4 | The eleventh-century punishment for causing inflation by reducing the value of coins ( usually by using base metals or clipping off pieces of silver ) was the loss of the right hand and castration . |
| 5 | She sat with the chicken pot in her lap , tearing off pieces of the bird and handing them round . |
| 6 | Bobo was breaking off pieces of the banana , rolling them around with her lips . |
| 7 | held-a football club as occupier should foresee that crowd could become unruly and break off pieces of concrete which if thrown could cause injury to visitors in this case on duty police officers . |
| 8 | IN THE SAME WEEK : Sir Alf Ramsey 's England footballers , World Cup winners nine months earlier , were beaten 3–2 by Scotland at Wembley , prompting ‘ hordes of tartan-clad Scots to pour over Wembley 's barriers to dance on England 's grave , kiss the centre spot and dig up pieces of turf as souvenirs . ’ |
| 9 | It may throw up pieces of plasterwork , shellwork and panelling , fragments of windows and evidence of colour schemes . |
| 10 | It seemed years , ages later when she found herself picking up pieces of broken plate and wiping fried egg off the tiles — so that Gran , when she returned , would find the kitchen tidy . |
| 11 | One walks between the banks that show where the houses stood , marking how blocks of squared masonry thrust in one place out of the turf ( a more important building than most of them ) , and how the tree-roots twist among the rubble footings of the peasant dwellings ; and one picks up pieces of twelfth- and thirteenth-century pottery — mere sherds , bits of rim , of sides , of bases , but all datable : nothing later than the Black Death , when the great silence descended . |
| 12 | With with dredged up pieces of rocks bigger than that erm machine , bigger than yes , that one yeah . |
| 13 | And you 've dredged up pieces of rock ? |
| 14 | A party of people sets out on a journey with all its different components like the jumbled up pieces of a jigsaw puzzle , Sophia thought , waiting for something — some event or just the passing of time — to fit them together into a whole . |
| 15 | Ikonize is a screen capture utility specifically designed to allow you to cut up pieces of displayed graphics and use them for Windows icons . |
| 16 | However , the success of recent policy initiatives can only be fully met if farmers find it their own interests to plant up pieces of land in such a way as to achieve both timber production and environmental improvement . |
| 17 | No , but I 'm not , I 'm not in business to run around picking up pieces of wood |
| 18 | She tried to regroup her scattered brain tissue , pulling back pieces of her mind before they were lost for ever . |
| 19 | Their fate is being decided in the United Nations , by the committees which endlessly discuss and debate and churn out pieces of paper that nobody seems to read . |
| 20 | Measure the height and width of each side of the bus — front , back , two sides and roof — and cut out pieces of non-stick paper to the same dimensions . |
| 21 | Measure the height and width of each of the sides of the cake ( including the two short ends ) , and cut out pieces of non-stick paper to the same dimensions . |
| 22 | Measure the height and width of the two roof sides and cut out pieces of non-stick paper in the same way . |