Example sentences of "piece of [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Really , two things brought up investigation to consider the first is with trusts the very important piece of work that 's done by trusts on behalf of the provence another provence may or may not know that there are the trusts have now been er , between trusts erm South Wales trusts erm |
| 2 | In both key stages 3 and 4 they should have the opportunity to present an extended piece of work that has been planned , drafted , revised and polished over a period of time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is an opportunity to experience at a practical level the pleasures of creating a piece of work or joining and dance . |
| 5 | The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When this ounce was available for examination Dr Macdonald selected the largest piece , the one he had spotted in the second X-ray , deeply impacted into a piece of bone and buried inside the young man 's spleen . |
| 8 | She hung her oilskin on the hook , left her muddy boots on a piece of newspaper and went into the living room . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | ‘ Tek yer piece of candle an' do as yer told . ’ |
| 11 | The server is actually a piece of software that runs on a Macintosh AppleTalk network and allows multiple users to access common information . |
| 12 | Harry explored between his back teeth with his tongue and , failing to extract the piece of gristle that had lodged there , used the tip of his knife as a toothpick . |
| 13 | He was eating a cold sausage ; his tongue located a piece of gristle and spat it out . |
| 14 | I met up with Pat in a small room at the front of the house tucking into a breakfast of fried eggs and an obscure piece of meat that took up about half of his mess-tin . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , Boyo , it 's either this or that , ’ said Taff , pointing to the alternative — a large piece of meat that had been roasted over a fire and looked most unappetising . |
| 16 | He said he 'd probably get it anyway , that he 'd baited the trap with a piece of meat that had gone off . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Burun impaled a piece of meat and forked it delicately into his mouth . |
| 19 | It was worn and comfortable-looking , like an old , well-loved piece of furniture that had been kept for years . |
| 20 | Fortunately the ancient piece of furniture that answered to ‘ sofa ’ lacked an arm . |
| 21 | The frozen fingers of death clutched at everything , were curled round every piece of furniture and clawed every drape . |
| 22 | Make a feature of it , do n't just stick it into a piece of furniture and hope it will look right . |
| 23 | There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The living animal has by this process been transformed into something approximating a circuit board in a computer , and the researchers can go about exploring its properties rather as if they were electrical engineers , presented with a novel piece of equipment and trying to understand from scratch how its circuits function . |
| 27 | It is all too easy to see a dirty piece of equipment and to blame the nearest worker . |
| 28 | The superintendent tore off a piece of nan and wiped the curry sauce from her plate . |
| 29 | They can not be expected to read every piece of intelligence that pours into Whitehall . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |