‘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.’