Example sentences of "work on the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | An American work on the same lines was first published in 1926 by Helen Gardner . |
| 2 | Recent work on the religious demography of Northern Ireland by Compton and Power ( Compton 1985 ; Compton and Power 1986 ; Ford 1986 ; Commins in Clancy , et al . |
| 3 | Use has also been made of Russell 's work on the teaching of civics in Northern Ireland schools . |
| 4 | I began work on the big glass on 27 July 1967 , wrote Harsnet . |
| 5 | I began work on the big glass on 27 July 1967 , he typed . |
| 6 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 7 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 8 | as if even my memories of work on the glass were not memories but fantasies and fancies . |
| 9 | Genius is Michelangelo at work on the Sistine ceiling . |
| 10 | His current work on the concept of flow with Thom and Deleuze . |
| 11 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 12 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 13 | However , I find Turner 's work on the results of such movement into the liminal state to be a very useful way of interpreting what an insider experiences when he moves to the margins of his own domain , and I suspect that many such transformations across fiercely defended boundaries of cultural experience lend the individual the chance to stand aside and reflect on his subjective place in the order of things . |
| 14 | Oh , it 's OK for you , let's have an evening of work on the exhibition , your goddam son blew that out of the window once and I was supposed to say , ‘ Yes Lucy , no Lucy , three bags full , Lucy ? ’ |
| 15 | She found a spanner and set to work on the bike . |
| 16 | We learned for the second time that old London Underground trains never die : they are sold for another quarter-century 's work on the Isle of Wight . |
| 17 | ( All the PTEs have done a great deal of work on the integration and simplification of fare-structures and the provision of interchangeable tickets . ) |
| 18 | Some policies which otherwise give good cover specifically rule out damage caused to the buildings in the course of repair , demolition or any work on the structure . |
| 19 | It was her way with the pithy and quotable phrase that drew media attention to her work on the London catwalks in the early Eighties , a knack she called on again in her last collection , studding ‘ Clean Up Or Die ’ on to the backs of leather biker jackets . |
| 20 | However , an increasing awareness of this omission has led some specialists in the area of ethnographic work on the police to address systematically the problems they encountered in the field ( Punch 1989 ; van Maanen 1988 ) . |
| 21 | As Jennifer Hunt ( 1984 ) showed in respect to her work on the police , these qualities can increase a female researcher 's penetration in the field and facilitate the development of rapport . |
| 22 | In sandbag areas like West Belfast , months of patient hard work on the part of the neighbourhood police cam be destroyed as a single event inside or outside the locale increases Catholic distrust of or disaffection from the police . |
| 23 | In winter we look for work on the more difficult lowland sites such as coastal paths . |
| 24 | I impressed him with my work on the Motors and Camel . |
| 25 | It is here that Coetzee 's work suffers from the lack of a more ambitious comparative framework , Coetzee 's work on the Conservative leagues is similar to Geoffrey Eley 's analysis of the German ‘ radical right ’ before 1914 . |
| 26 | But employment in the building trade is notoriously irregular , and such artisans alternate self-employment with wage-paid work on the building sites . |
| 27 | ‘ As far as we are aware there were no fish in distress when we returned to work on the Thursday morning and the canal was refilled with two feet of water . ’ |
| 28 | This interest ultimately led him to write a separate work on the topic , Die Mark . |
| 29 | Unfortunately both Marx and Engels , in their enthusiasm for this confirmation of their theory , also took over from Morgan 's work on the gens several totally unsupportable assumptions which are in fact quite unnecessary for what they were trying to argue . |
| 30 | Ask them if they are working-class or middle-class , and they tell you ‘ This is our fate , sister , to work , to slave , in Pakistan too some of us had to do the hard , hard work on the fields . |