Example sentences of "[noun] work by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH Rail has called on four rail unions to agree plans to limit excessive overtime worked by signals and telecommunications engineers as part of a radical review of pay and working conditions following the disaster . |
| 2 | As long as the Irish Republic provides a safe haven for substantial numbers of known terrorists , the British people will hold the Irish people in some measure responsible for the tragedies wrought by terrorism . |
| 3 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 4 | Renberg , Korsman and Birks use sediment composition to determine the effects of land-use change wrought by Iron Age peoples in 14 widely separated lakes in southern Sweden ( where acid deposition is a severe problem today and a large proportion of lakes are acidified ) . |
| 5 | the changes at work wrought by mechanisation and the decline of the village as an occupational community have brought the agricultural worker under the social influence of his employer . |
| 6 | The days were shorter now , and in the mornings the dairy worked by candlelight . |
| 7 | August 19 — September 11 : Exhibition of furniture and wood working by Lucinda Leech . |
| 8 | The cases display a mainly 19C head reliquary of the grandmother of King Wenceslas , Ludmila ; the 10C sword of St Stephen wrought by Ulfberth and a 13C mitre set with seed pearls . |
| 9 | Accordingly , when power-looms worked by women began to appear early in the nineteenth century it " set women against women , especially young women working in the shops or mills against older married women working at home " . |
| 10 | THE business worked by magic — until Musgrave donned his only clean suit , the infallible sign that he was off on a call to Lord Glenconner or Sir Michael Culmne-Seymour , who used to bail him out to the tune of £50 or £100 . |
| 11 | It must be at least twenty years since I first saw works by Basil Rocke . |
| 12 | Sotheby 's will sell ten Pop works by Warhol from the collection of his agent and manager Frederick Hughes in this auction of contemporary art . |
| 13 | Anthony d'Offay 's survey of neon works by Bruce Nauman , extensively previewed in last month 's issue , includes ‘ Seven Figures ’ ( 1985 ) , a chain of erotic entertainment ( to 16 May ) . |
| 14 | Because of the ways in which the changes wrought by urbanization have worked their way through the village community the contrast between the more affluent life-styles of the newcomers and the poorer living standards of local farm workers have not therefore resulted in greater conflict between farmers and their employees . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , they counter that the physical environment should not be considered a constant , even over the relatively short period of agricultural settlement in Great Britain , in part because of climatic change and its consequences , in part because of changes wrought by land use practices , and in part because of changed perceptions of the environment ; see also Prince ( 1971 ) , and Blaikie and Brookfield ( 1987 ) . |
| 16 | Such demographic changes wrought by industrialism meant the decline of rural parishes and the creation of a new urbanised and industrial poor . |
| 17 | To demonstrate the magnitude of changes wrought by man upon nature the book devoted chapters to vegetable and animal species ( chapter 2 ) , to woods ( 3 ) , waters ( 4 ) , sands ( 5 ) and to the projected or possible geographical changes by man ( 6 ) . |
| 18 | Even more important in the context of this book , however , have been the changes wrought by migration . |
| 19 | Here we see how Bukharin viewed the changes wrought by finance capital in the national capitalist economies . |
| 20 | The ‘ Edinburgh Courant ’ of 21st May commented ‘ The Comet of Helensburgh , a vessel worked by steam and the first of the kind ever seen in this quarter , is at present lying in Leith Harbour ’ . |
| 21 | In 1815 the inhabitants of the west Cornwall port of Hayle crowded to see the arrival there of a " vessel worked by steam " . |
| 22 | Fitted wardrobes can have internal lights worked by pressure switches that operate when the door is opened . |
| 23 | He believed that evolution worked by orthogenesis , in which rigidly predetermined trends drove variation in a particular direction whatever the needs of the organism . |
| 24 | Fairy Tales by Terry Jones ( Puffin , £1.95 ) CHRISTMAS BEST-SELLERS Based on last week 's sales in the children 's department of Waterstone 's in Edinburgh : 1 Rhyming Stew by Roald Dahl ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 2 Oi Get Off Our Train by John Burningham ( Jonathan Cape , £7.95 ) 3 Matilda by Roald Dahl 4 The Lion , The Witch and The Wardrobe by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 5 Prince Caspian by CSLewis ( Fontana Lion , £2.25 ) 6 Almost Everything There Is To Know by Tim Hunkin ( Pyramid Books , £4.95 ) 7 The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter ( Frederick Warne , £20 ) 8 Budgie The Helicopter by HRHDuchess of York ( Simon & Schuster , £4.95 ) 9 The Way Things Work by David MacAuley ( Dorling Kindersley , £14.95 ) 10 Peace At Last by Jill Murphy ( Walker , £6.95 ) THE YEAR 'S BEST-SELLERS Supplied by Jane Churchill at Children 's Bookcentre in Kensington , London : |
| 25 | The Donald Morris Gallery of Detroit and New York reported a total of fifteen sales ‘ of five or six figures ’ by such artists as Aristide Maillol and Alexander Calder , and Peter Findlay sold at least two big ticket works by Mary Cassatt and Emil Nolde . |
| 26 | ‘ The lift worked by hydraulics . ’ |
| 27 | The number of hours a week worked by juniors has come down by about 10 hours since the Labour party was in power . |
| 28 | The strategy works by means of paradox , a paradox which has ultimately to be resolved through some sort of fusion between the apparent text and the sub-text . |
| 29 | With a limited budget it has been difficult to acquire top quality works by artists on the museum 's list , however they have been fortunate in being able to purchase Robert Loder 's ( Honorary Curator of Prints , Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge ) collection of 363 prints , while other works were acquired from Marlborough Fine Art . |
| 30 | The market for top quality works by Matisse has not been subject to speculative buying , according to David Nash , head of Sotheby 's New York Impressionist Department . |