Example sentences of "writing [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will examine any differences in children 's writing arising from their being taught writing through either themedium of their home language , or the language they are learnng . |
| 2 | But Olson nevertheless slides from these precise comments into grander generalisation and appears to attribute the characteristics associated with specific exponents of the essay technique to writing as such and to the whole culture . |
| 3 | Mrs Howard had an interview with the Brewers [ her prospective employers ] last night , but I to not wish to be writing about that . |
| 4 | So I had a market cornered and good access to American trips because I used to like writing about that , even though on the early stuff I must have affected a punk rock stance long after it was all over . ’ |
| 5 | you know , it 's just pathetic and she 's so rude and nasty no mm that 's right yeah , yeah , yeah it 's the same yesterday when I was writing about that |
| 6 | I hope over the next few months to be writing about all these accessories in more detail . |
| 7 | ‘ So you are writing about those things , ’ another Israeli said as he stood in a narrow , shaded lane . |
| 8 | In general , we have been writing about those melodies which are complete and have a well-defined entirety . |
| 9 | Writing about this one feels strange simply because there is n't that much to say . |
| 10 | Since writing about this in New Scientist , I have received numerous letters from readers asking how they can do the same thing in Britain and Europe . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not writing about this party , are you ? ’ she asks suspiciously . |
| 12 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 13 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm writing about this beautiful place , señorita . |
| 15 | These descriptions were vital to writing about these two artists in whose work colour plays so important a part . |
| 16 | At the very moment when they were writing about these problems , Marx and Engels were writing the seminal texts in which the political solutions were expounded . |
| 17 | This month I 'm writing about another of the smaller accessories for your knitting machine , the rib transfer carriage ( RT1 ) . |
| 18 | Economic historians writing during this period did not escape these powerful influences . |
| 19 | Remember that there must be something in writing for each ; no one is trusting memory . |
| 20 | The transcriptions are no less taxing , with virtuoso writing for all the orchestra . |
| 21 | By April 1792 , he was ‘ writing for all the prizes ’ , and later that year his ‘ Ode on the Slave Trade ’ , a poem ‘ tinged with melancholy & moral pathos ’ , won the Browne Medal . |
| 22 | Wickham had remarked that covert freelance writing for another publication did not justify making a misleading statement during a murder inquiry . |
| 23 | We find it 's also useful back information , because they will be able to act on one client and has applications for proposal we are writing for another client later on so we can use as references refer to this information . |
| 24 | It is far too weighty and achieved a piece of writing for any such hasty response . |
| 25 | Following his daughter 's death , Hugo ceased writing for several years . |
| 26 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 27 | He has concentrated on writing for some years , but says he will go back into court when , and if , he finds a case that appeals to him . |
| 28 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 29 | The schools of the established Church banned the teaching of writing for this kind of reason as much as the Methodists did for sabbatarian ones . |
| 30 | It is understood that SFA regards an agreement as in writing for this purpose even if its terms are set out in a terms of business letter accepted merely by conduct ( which is especially important where the intermediary is not a private customer ) . |