Example sentences of "piece of [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rooster is a vibrant piece of dance drama with Kenneth Tharp and Ben Wright also excelling . |
| 2 | Although it was unable to veto legislation , the Liberal majority in the Senate — led by former Deputy Prime Minister Allan MacEachan — blocked a key piece of government legislation : a bill to implement the highly unpopular goods and services tax ( GST ) , a new 7 per cent value added tax due to take effect on Jan. 1 , 1991 . |
| 3 | The nineteen eighty Employment Act gives the possibility to the employers through the U K to de-recognize legitimate trade unions and these trade union re representatives has to be the most damaging piece of government legislation of the last two decades . |
| 4 | Until last week this latter option might have been considered a possible piece of government lunacy . |
| 5 | If you had been making the movie on film , the term cut would have been taken literally because each piece of cine film is physically cut and spliced onto the next . |
| 6 | This may be under a piece of tree bark , along a ledge of some kind or hidden on the ground among the undergrowth . |
| 7 | Two physicists at the University of Sydney in Australia had a piece of copper tubing , used as a lightning conductor , which had been crushed as the electrical current passed through it . |
| 8 | The heater was magnificent — a piece of copper tubing from the engine up between the two front seats meant regular stops for fresh air before we realised we were being poisoned by fumes . |
| 9 | When , for example , a piece of copper wire is wound into a spiral , it acquires properties it did not possess previously . |
| 10 | If you can wear an earthed wrist strap or , at least , a piece of copper wire clipped to the ground plane . |
| 11 | In fact tying a pollution to its source can be a tricky piece of detective work . |
| 12 | This is not really an outstanding piece of detective work , señorita . ’ |
| 13 | A TENACIOUS piece of detective work involving wartime fliers in Britain and America has had a fairy tale ending for Courtaulds pensioner Norman Bate . |
| 14 | Can I swap do you want the piece of chicken mum ? |
| 15 | Various local crafts and agricultural implements are represented , but there is also a blacksmith 's forge and a Tudor glass furnace , discovered in Rosedale ( q.v. ) in 1968 , and carefully dismantled and re-erected here in an ambitious piece of preservation work like a sort of Abu Simbel operation in miniature . |
| 16 | In this case , you could make the whole picture golden , choosing a gold frame , making the backing from a piece of gold velvet or silk , and then using gold-coloured leaves and flowers for the design itself . |
| 17 | The balls are normally spheroid and enclosed in a cage consisting of either a cross-shaped piece of sheet metal , often silver , or two metal bands . |
| 18 | We stopped off there , had hot chocolate and a piece of spinach quiche , but I was , and erm , and he treated me , which was quite amazing , and then erm , |
| 19 | Each candidate is permitted one postage-free mailing of one piece of election literature . |
| 20 | The official report states that the broken piece of window bar was later found to have adhesive tape wrapped around each end , suggesting that it had been severed beforehand . |
| 21 | ‘ Three poppadams , ’ he said , ‘ and a little piece of mango chutney ! ’ |
| 22 | But without Balfour 's active support such a controversial piece of education reform would not have passed . |
| 23 | He hurled himself over in bed to study the writing under the lamp , still could n't decide whether it was Jim 's or Bella 's , ate a piece of milk chocolate , and then six Codeines , because he had forgotten to bring his sleeping pills . |
| 24 | Word of Denim , Lawrence 's conceptual thrust into the 1990s , began to circulate immediately , but then the trail went cold apart from overheard rumours and the odd piece of rogue merchandising ( Denim patches and plectrums ) turning up at the NME . |
| 25 | SCI-FI fans can grab a piece of TV history in the ‘ Entertainment Sale ’ at posh auctioneers Bonhams . |
| 26 | The boy sat on the floor beside her , carving a piece of balsa wood . |
| 27 | His hair was tied back with a piece of tinsel string he had found in the Christmas decorations box . |
| 28 | One was to paint the roofs of LA big armaments plants to look like suburban gardens ( for fear of Japanese bombing ) ; the other was this quite extraordinary piece of cartoon propaganda . |
| 29 | Using a technique pioneered in America , where drop-in surgery is commonplace , Waters made a three-inch incision , cut through the layers of ‘ padding ’ , pushed back the hernia sack , and then tucked in a 2½ inch by 1 ¼ inch piece of polypropylene mesh to reinforce the muscle wall . |
| 30 | and you 'll receive a special piece of rugby history . |