Example sentences of "a piece of [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make a feature of it , do n't just stick it into a piece of furniture and hope it will look right . |
| 2 | The server is actually a piece of software that runs on a Macintosh AppleTalk network and allows multiple users to access common information . |
| 3 | Heifers ran out of my way , taking shelter behind a piece of wall and peering after me . |
| 4 | She hung her oilskin on the hook , left her muddy boots on a piece of newspaper and went into the living room . |
| 5 | He said he 'd probably get it anyway , that he 'd baited the trap with a piece of meat that had gone off . |
| 6 | Masklin tried pictures at random and got several different sorts of fruit , a squeaky green vegetable thing , and a piece of meat that tasted rather like smoked salmon . |
| 7 | Burun impaled a piece of meat and forked it delicately into his mouth . |
| 8 | Leasing is a system whereby a financial institution purchases a piece of equipment and leases it back to the company , which then has the use of equipment it has not had to purchase . |
| 9 | Are there any rules for writing poetry in the sense that does it have to rhyme , does it have to have a rhythm , does it have to have a particular for to be recognised and accepted as a piece of poetry as opposed , perhaps , to a piece of prose ? |
| 10 | What it turned out to be was a lump of clay that I 'd moulded into what looked like a piece of black and wrapped up in silver paper just fooling about and they really freaked out and they kicked me out and had the police involved and everything . |
| 11 | A breastsummer is n't just a piece of wood stuck over a gap , it 's a piece of wood that holds the walls together , and the rest of the building up . |
| 12 | I spread a little of the peculiar fat on a piece of bread and put it into my mouth . |
| 13 | The aim of marking is , of course , not just to assign a number to a piece of work but to give constructive feedback so that the students ' work steadily improves . |
| 14 | 17.58 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 9 should be encouraged to make their own decisions about the appropriate length for a piece of work and to recognise that there can be merit in brevity . |
| 15 | It is an opportunity to experience at a practical level the pleasures of creating a piece of work or joining and dance . |
| 16 | A piece of land that had held no particular interest for him at all until the arrival of its new estate manager . |
| 17 | It is built around a piece of land that juts out into the Atlantic , with beaches on the north side of the slender neck and the harbour on the south side . |
| 18 | None of us would want to find that , at the end of our work , we had produced a piece of legislation that increased the delay in obtaining the approval necessary to build new railways . |
| 19 | There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives . |
| 20 | The superintendent tore off a piece of nan and wiped the curry sauce from her plate . |
| 21 | If you have not time to bake the cakes you must scent a piece of gingerbread and give him that , and it will answer the same purpose . ’ |
| 22 | And feeling sick , and shaken , he placed the dead animal in a piece of sacking and went into the house . |
| 23 | But if you can produce 28 seconds that actually exists as a piece of entertainment and makes people laugh , nobody will ever think the worse of you for it . |
| 24 | She picked up a piece of pottery and turned it over . |
| 25 | A : ah a book that had been written or a piece of music that had been written or a painting or a — |
| 26 | Then … find a piece of music that ran to the same metre , and with that for my model … divide my ‘ composition ’ into bars . |
| 27 | Alternatively , the choreographer may be inspired by a piece of music and wish to bring it to life in dance ( see page 41 ) . |
| 28 | Moreover , they interpret a piece of music and make it their own , even if they have never encountered the given orchestra until a few hours before . |
| 29 | And she would spear a piece of chicken and carry it high in the air towards that great black hole of a mouth and , still talking about her therapy , her plans for the future , his inability to understand her as a woman , his crude , male-orientated sexuality , she would munch , munch , munch … |
| 30 | She ladled the flat and listless thing on to a piece of toast and put it before her guest . |