Example sentences of "[noun sg] work by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assume , as ministers presumably believed , that it was fiscally essential to recover the deficit wrought by the recession . |
| 2 | Yet the government can not easily undo the damage wrought by the courts . |
| 3 | However , it was only when the driver turned to the left up the quays that the real damage wrought by the 1916 rising could be clearly seen . |
| 4 | This coming together at Dan Qeqe stadium was far more of a genuine gesture towards bridge building than most of the internal initiatives according to Malcolm Klaasen , the ex-SARU convenor of the Eastern Cape Veterans Association , and an outspoken critic of the lack of change wrought by the unification process . |
| 5 | In need of a cheap , large labour force after the economic and social havoc wrought by the Second World War , migration from the Caribbean and other ‘ New Commonwealth , countries was encouraged by both commercial and public sector British employers . |
| 6 | The increasing affluence of the rural population wrought by the urban middle-class exodus has tended to mask the continuing and severe pockets of poverty which exist in the countryside and has led the ‘ problem ’ of rural housing to be regarded less as a problem of social welfare and more as an issue concerning land use planning and countryside preservation . |
| 7 | The company hopes to have a full-scale prototype working by the end of the year . |
| 8 | The BVDG is currently lobbying in Bonn and Brussels over taxation issues affecting the art market : the uncertainty of preferential tax treatment of art works by the EC in 1993 , and the German wealth tax ( Vermögenssteuer ) now levied on collections worth over DM 20,000 . |
| 9 | Until 14 February , Germany 's largest law firm , Boden Oppenhoff , Rasor Raue , at Hohenstaufenring 62 , is showing five large paintings and thirty-five paper works by the American artist Ira Bartell , who lives in Cologne . |
| 10 | Now considered the finest portrait remaining in private hands in Britain , it is among a very few first rank works by the artist in any genre remaining in private hands in Britain . |
| 11 | The show included poster works by the Guerrilla Girls , the New York artists who work via anonymous flyposter art . |
| 12 | However , according to some scientific reports , the devastation wrought by the recent floods could soon be overshadowed by the effects of global warming , which , it was feared , might completely submerge vast expanses of low-lying land ( see pp. 36783-84 ) . |
| 13 | On May 1 the Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia appealed for international aid , saying that " the magnitude of devastation wrought by the latest cyclone is so great that Bangladesh can not face it alone " . |
| 14 | Professor Miller proceeded to the changes in psychology wrought by the Second World War , which was interesting . |
| 15 | Nothing daunted , the reactor personnel managed to get an extra pump working by the space-age technique of forcing open a valve and jamming it with a steel plate , though this had the distinct disadvantage of immobilising all of the other safety systems . |
| 16 | Literature works by the sum of its elements , not by any one of them . |
| 17 | The death and destruction wrought by the cyclone which struck Bangladesh on 29 April was tragically compounded by the total breakdown of the country 's communication system . |
| 18 | The puddles in the hollows of the paving stones shimmered with a wash of colour as booted feet splashed through them , and officials of the court stood with long faces as they counted the extent of the destruction wrought by the rains . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the destruction wrought by the Iraqi forces on Kuwait 's oilfields and refineries had been devastating and would take years to rectify . |
| 20 | Moreover , the destruction wrought by the blitz turned ‘ rebuilding Britain' from a vaguely desirable objective into a necessity . |
| 21 | At the end of the Civil War , and during the Second World War , it was relatively easy to persuade people that shortages of food , clothing , fuel and manufactured goods were due , first , to the destruction wrought by the " reds " and , subsequently , to the difficulties resulting from international conflict . |
| 22 | The words blazed from lips now denuded of artificial colour , their natural flush wrought by the man — the enemy — she confronted , but she made herself be silent when they were said . |
| 23 | Medics presented glowing testimonies to successive government inquiries on the marvellous conversion worked by the acts ; where before the conduct of prostitutes was miserable in the extreme , now they had common decency and self-respect . |