‘the _head_ waiter’

‘Had things worked out differently, Abram could have been Leigh’s _head_ coach.’

‘The front section of each issue has brief pieces, about research and about the political and social setting of science, and these often have punchy _heads_ .’

‘The remaining 40 percent of content, including cylinder blocks and _heads_ , is made in-house.’

‘an 8 m _head_ of water in the shafts’

‘The scheme will not require a dam but rather a wall that provides a constant _head_ of water and which will be designed to utilise the flow of the river.’

‘huge _heads_ of fluffy cream flowers’

‘All have more or less narrow, mostly one-nerved leaves, and flowers in small compact _heads_ .’

‘The main drive contains the drive electronics and _heads_ .’

‘Multiple optical _heads_ combine to produce a wide-field-of-view imaging system.’

‘it is easy to get up a _head_ of pheasants with the aid of good keepers’

‘A lot of birds being imported from a distance would do his stock good in the way of crossing with new blood, which is necessary where a large _head_ of pheasants are annually reared.’

‘I’ve got a splitting _head_ .’

‘What a night, and what a bad _head_ the next morning.’

‘seventy _head_ of dairy cattle’

‘So we still run a few _head_ of beef cattle, a bit of contact with the land.’

‘they paid fifty pounds a _head_ ’

‘In raw economic statistics about income per _head_ , it has moved towards the UK average.’

‘the _head_ of the Dutch Catholic Church’

‘Most village _heads_ have some business relations with the town’s shop owners or traders.’

‘Beachy _Head_ ’

‘The print was Thea Schrack’s ‘Yaquina _Head_ Lighthouse.’’

‘Larger-scale climatic changes or tectonic changes in the hinterland produce relative changes in the main agents of deposition and entrenchment of the upper fan (the fan _head_ ).’

‘The rock and soil debris may even move on very shallow slopes, resulting in a large accumulation of _head_ at the valley bottom.’

‘they were cleaning out the _heads_ ’

‘Although the sea washed the _heads_ clean as the ship pitched, the _heads_ still needed a regular scrub-down with a broom.’

‘she had a good _head_ for business’

‘a _head_ for heights’

‘stags yearly cast their _heads_ in March’

‘There was no way the captain could keep the ship’s _head_ up into the seas.’

‘As the

‘Maces of the late 15th and 16th century often had multi-flanged _heads_ shaped in the Gothic style.’

‘The _heads_ then rotate forward to mount the drive platter.’

‘They enter through the kitchen, where the produce trucks drop off the _heads_ of lettuce.’

‘What about a _head_ of crisp, green lettuce for that fresh salad you were wanting to prepare?’

‘Leaving the _head_ of Lake Wanaka the road then runs through an open valley to Makarora.’

‘We were at the margins of the lake, where a river runs into its _head_ .’

‘The bass drum is the largest orchestral drum: normally it has two _heads_ .’

‘He’ll split the _heads_ of his drums into different textures and has contact mics on them.’

‘Countersink nail and screw _heads_ that are sticking up above the surface.’

‘The conventional screwdriver has a single blade and is used with screws of matching _heads_ .’

‘A number of other drinking traditions also use hygiene as an excuse - take the ‘two fingers’ of _head_ on every glass of beer.’

‘It’s an almost black beer with a creamy _head_ , giving a subtle roasted coffee aroma.’

‘at the _head_ of the queue’

‘People who get to the _head_ of the queue and then take ages to find their purse/wallet - surely you?’

‘whatever comes into my _head_ ’

‘The evil that they imagine is inside their _heads_ - but they can’t be said to know it, at least not consciously.’

‘he was beaten by a _head_ ’

‘She was tall, only half a _head_ shorter than he was.’

‘Ducts in the precast double wall carry cooled air which flows into the prayer hall through grilles in the column _heads_ .’

‘Interiors are relatively plain, with decoration confined to the square column _heads_ .’

‘a good _head_ of steam on the gauge’

‘The high pitched noise of the steam engines and their strong _heads_ of steam are to dominate the afternoon.’

‘ _heads_ or tails?’

‘If you are a mother about to give birth in a village where your only help is a traditional midwife, you can die with the same likelihood as the toss of a coin showing _heads_ .’

‘In 1754, Virginia dispatched an army under Lieutenant Colonel George Washington to construct a fort at the _head_ of the Ohio River.’

‘The river _head_ is the source not only of the property’s water, but also of its joie de vivre.’

‘The best entrance to the hotel ballroom, a double door at the _head_ of a short flight of steps, was strictly forbidden.’

‘Miss Howitt broke away from a group of her friends when she saw Croft come to the _head_ of the stairs.’

‘At 115, at the _head_ of the page, your Honours will see, at line 4, his Honour reads out the questions which had been written by the jury.’

‘He would start reading at the _head_ of a page then his _head_ would move downward in a straight line until he got to the foot of the page.’

‘In an effort to overcome this a forward-looking wind transducer is mounted at the _head_ of the mast.’

‘he sat down at the _head_ of the cot’

‘With sheer will power, she forced herself to nod at Dante and sit at the _head_ of the table.’

‘On the same occasion, one week ago, Dr. Reed made some observations with respect to snow on the _heads_ of the stone window surrounds.’

‘In The Music Lesson it is possible to see that the joists are supported at the left on a timber lintel or wall-plate, running across the _heads_ of the windows.’

‘The entire family wore crowns upon their _heads_ .’

‘On the first morning it is impossible to imagine the conventional male participants wanting their _heads_ shaved.’

‘All of these examples involve _head_ nouns with an indefinite article.’

‘Recall that a verb governs an object, and the _head_ of a phrase governs the complement.’

‘Under very cool conditions, as in an unheated solar greenhouse or a polyethylene tunnel, any Asian _heading_ cabbage will grow more loose and open.’

‘Of the handful of komatsunas available, some are crosses of komatsuna with _heading_ brassicas, either napa types or bok choy.’

‘the economy is _heading_ for recession’

‘Mr Howard offered no explanation of why polls appeared to show him _heading_ for defeat.’

‘an organizational unit _headed_ by a line manager’

‘she _headed_ up the Jubilee Year programme’

‘the St George’s Day procession was _headed_ by the mayor’

‘With 32 titles, Kerry _heads_ the list of All-Ireland football winners with rural clubs providing the majority of the county team.’

‘she _headed_ the car towards them’

‘ _Head_ them towards the Washington area.’

‘an article _headed_ ‘The Protection of Human Life’’

‘I refer to the article on page 3 of Journal _headed_ The state of hospitals.’

‘the willow is _headed_ every three or four years’

‘The trunks of some trees have been _headed_ which causes several branches to grow from just below the cut.’

‘he was _heading_ for the exit’

‘we were _headed_ in the wrong direction’

‘a corner kick that Moody _headed_ into the net’

‘Duff attacks down the left wing, but his ball is _headed_ away by Sulimani.’