Example sentences of "[unc] work on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The merit of Mr. Audubon 's work yields only to the size of his book , ’ he said , ‘ while Mr. Gould 's work on the Birds of Europe , inferior in size to that of Mr. Audubon 's , is the most beautiful work on Ornithology that has ever appeared in this or any other country . ’ |
| 2 | During the next voyage of the Beagle , Bynoe contributed a number of new finds for the ornithologist 's work on the Birds of Australia . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The different occupational categories of railway worker have , to a greater or lesser extent , occupational hierarchies up which they proceed , during a lifetime 's work on the railways , by a combination of aptitude and seniority , with the latter predominating . |
| 5 | The BBC and I finally bade each other goodnight at 6.30 , with what seemed to be a good day 's work on the cassettes . |
| 6 | The researcher 's work on the effects of taxes on individuals and households draws heavily on the government 's Family Expenditure Survey . |
| 7 | In examining politeness I will take an eclectic approach , borrowing from Brown and Levinson 's work on the Politeness Phenomenon ( 1978 ) and Leech 's Politeness Principle ( 1983 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was the designer 's work on the planes which won Britain the Schneider trophy — the World Cup of the aviation world , which led to his designs for the Spitfire . |
| 10 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 11 | Some of this work can be achieved by machine and at Kaohsiung computerised buffers take care of the large , flat areas ( you can often spot the computer 's work on the backs of guitars , by the buffing lines which run across the body at 90 degrees to the grain ) . |