Example sentences of "piece [prep] [noun sg] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right planners , now according to me this is for Thursday , next Thursday week t week one Thursday so homework for Thursday finish writing a list er whoever 's giggling will you calm down of things you believe are important do this in rough and I think we 'd better underline the next bit , bring it to the lesson now , quite seriously if you have only managed to get five or six items at the moment on your list that you think are important , that 's not enough , you really do need to be going for a minimum of ten , and if you ca n't then the next piece of work that we 're going to do in the lesson next week is going to be quite difficult . |
| 2 | Er fine , fine limits in the bores of the object er piece of work that he was doing . |
| 3 | It was a piece of work that I very much enjoyed organising and following through to completion . |
| 4 | Because we believe very very strongly wi that with an organization like yours , where each piece of work that you do is slightly different from other pieces of work , to have er a single m way , an approach to following the work er is , is really not , not the right er thing to do at all . |
| 5 | He made good use of every piece of newspaper that he could pick up and every convenient hedgerow ! |
| 6 | I 'll wager a piece of gold that his wound resembles a sword cut . |
| 7 | In John 's Gospel , Jesus , when asked to identify the man who will betray him , answers , ‘ It is the one to whom I give the piece of bread that I shall dip in the dish . ’ |
| 8 | That is what the greenbelt is actually there for , and if you have it there for that purpose , as I said yesterday , the necessary corollary is that you have additional provision beyond it , and I ca n't resist to offer Mr Wincup some support , I 'm sure one piece of evidence that he gave you about the letter from the Parish Council , he 's probably already replied to that Parish Council saying , as you 're in the York greenbelt have no fear , all the Selby needs will pass straight across your heads and land somewhere else . |
| 9 | Every piece of evidence that I have seen shows that the service that is now being delivered is substantially better than anything that was ever done , not least when we last had a Labour Government in office delivering those services . |
| 10 | If you have a piece of pottery that you suspect is older or younger than it purports to be , you can have it tested by thermoluminescence for £80 . |
| 11 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 12 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 13 | With a final piece of advice that I should climb the hill opposite La Valdieu the next day , I look my leave of the little group , wondering whether they or I were perhaps a little insane . |
| 14 | Sometimes he even managed to keep for himself the little piece of cotton-wool that she soaked in perfume so that he could rub the henna stains from her skin . |
| 15 | Then you propped it up on a twig , attached to a piece of string that you pulled when the bird walked into the trap . |
| 16 | er , elegant piece of jewellery that I could find . |
| 17 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 18 | Leaving aside the Romans , whose tradition of town-planning had been completely forgotten after their departure , the earliest piece of town-planning that we know of in England is that carried out by Abbot Baldwin at Bury St Edmunds , between 1066 and 1086 . |
| 19 | It 's growing but it 's not so big a piece of business that we could n't afford to do an acquisition , if it made sense . ’ |
| 20 | Then , as Shiona started to turn away , her body stiff with loathing , he added calmly , ‘ Oh , by the way , I have a piece of news that I think will interest you … ’ |
| 21 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 22 | A piece of paper that they give you which tells us what . |
| 23 | As the puppy gets older , he will want to go outside to the soiled piece of paper that you have positioned in a place that you may want him to use . |
| 24 | So she dashed off to her room and came back with a piece of underwear that I had certainly never seen before . |
| 25 | But it 's going to be extraordinarily difficult to check that a piece of timber that you buy in a market here , or you buy down the road in a timber yard , is in fact , erm does in fact come from a particular forest in Ghana . |
| 26 | Another item I picked up some time ago from across the Atlantic was the information that the British 7′¼″ gauge was only found on the Great Eastern , a piece of information that I 'm sure Vic Smith will agree to be even more surprising than anything in his talk ! |
| 27 | ‘ Well , it 's a bit early , but I have dug up one piece of information that you 'll enjoy . |
| 28 | And because you lived with it so long , you know when it is , and you forget that that 's a critical piece of information that you need to pass on to somebody else . |
| 29 | Worrying about your weight is more likely to lead to comforting yourself with a piece of chocolate that it is to assist in burning up calories . |
| 30 | Whereas most of the models today that we think of we regard them as a mixture of the two but with a he and , depending on the type of or the piece of perception that we 're working on , we have either one the other . |