Example sentences of "[prep] a piece [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 29-year-old man suffered 20pc burns to his right leg after a piece of wire he was removing from the line at Moorfields underground station , Liverpool , touched the live third rail . |
| 2 | The 29-year-old man suffered 20% burns to his right leg after a piece of wire he was removing from the line at Moorfields underground station , Liverpool , touched the live third rail . |
| 3 | One of the company 's most profitable activities was the distribution of a piece of software made by Boeing . |
| 4 | The demonstration came courtesy of a piece of software called Sphinx II from the Carnegie Mellon University . |
| 5 | The demonstration came courtesy of a piece of software called Sphinx II from the Carnegie Mellon University . |
| 6 | Throughout this book we will see examples of situations where a facility ( for example stacks in 3.2 , store protection in 5.1 , and sophisticated transput operations in 6.2 ) could be provided by means of a piece of software . |
| 7 | However , they are useful because software covers the spectrum in terms of size , and each definition gives a feel for the size and complexity of a piece of software in a single word . |
| 8 | If it is impractical to embed the header in the text of a piece of software , e.g. in object modules or indexed files , LIFESPAN provides an alternative way of bringing such software under its control . |
| 9 | It 's all sanded down again , then you put your first coat Now you use what you call a rubber which is consists of a piece of cotton wool You know you know , cotton wool |
| 10 | New DNA arises by making two copies of a piece of DNA which was previously present only once , and then altering the sequence , and hence the meaning , of one of the copies . |
| 11 | Then fix battens between the joists to take the edges of a piece of plasterboard . |
| 12 | The scope or character of a piece of criticism is naturally related to the magazine or newspaper in which it appears , as we noticed in the case of Dore Ashton 's dismissal from the New York Times because it was asserted that her work could not be understood by the paper 's readers . |
| 13 | A gain in the value of a piece of equipment used for business purposes may be ‘ rolled over ’ and offset against the cost of obtaining the replacement equipment . |
| 14 | These new methods of recording and scoring sleep stages in human beings were based on the use of a piece of equipment available in most hospitals and many university departments of psychology — the clinical EEG machine , or electro-encephalograph , a device for detecting and recording the electrical activity of the brain . |
| 15 | An example of this would be the value of a piece of equipment where its gross book value would be represented by the total volume of water in the two reservoirs . |
| 16 | Investigations have established that the root cause was the malfunction of a piece of equipment called — mysteriously — a ‘ beard blower . ’ |
| 17 | The bronze tripod-cauldron , like the clay grave-vase , is the monumentalisation of a piece of household furniture : a cooking-pot . |
| 18 | The material has already revealed evidence for trepanation , a surgical procedure involving removal of a piece of bone from the skull . |
| 19 | The Husayns seemed to have got hold of a piece of pottery and were trying to stuff it under Khan 's coat . |
| 20 | Coming back to Empingham , yeomen called John Parker resided in Belton and Clipsham , both in Rutland , though there is no clue as to which , if either , was the man listed under Empingham ; if he was the Belton man he could also have been the owner of a piece of land there — the MS is faded at this point . |
| 21 | Pickin was a railway enthusiast who , in 1969 , purchased from the owner of a piece of land adjoining a disused railway line , all his estate and interest in the railway land and track . |
| 22 | The owner of a piece of land contracted with a building firm for the building of a factory on the land . |
| 23 | The second half of the definition introduces quite a different concept ; development here means not a physical operation but a change in the use of a piece of land or a structure . |
| 24 | Agent Cooper , who is forever dictating into a pocket tape recorder to an unseen associate named Diane , lends the show much of its deadpan humour as when he rhapsodizes about the aroma of the Douglas Fir or the savoury charms of a piece of pie with the glass-eyed earnestness of a Boy Scout on ecstasy . |
| 25 | Often the form of a piece of literature may throw light on the nature of the piece and its background , or " life-setting " . |
| 26 | In 1795–6 , for example , the member of parliament for the county of Angus found himself much concerned with the fate of a piece of crown land which happened to be situated within the plantation lands in the island of St Vincent belonging to Patrick Cruickshank of Stracathro , one of the Angus freeholders . |
| 27 | THIS SHADOWY object is not the latest in orthopaedic mattresses , but a model of the surface of a piece of silicon . |
| 28 | There 's even a clip of a piece of toast being launched from a toaster — a none too-subtle dig at Berkeley Systems ' flying toasters , methinks . |
| 29 | One whiff of a piece of clothing and the appropriate commands , and off goes Fido , nose to the ground , casting this way and that to pick up the same scent . |
| 30 | The work of Walker and Amsler [ 1986 ] on word sense discrimination ( described above ) involves the use of subject codes in LDOCE to identify the topic of a piece of text . |