Example sentences of "[adj] work on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 2 | This may seem a curious exception , but it is as well to remember that Gregory would have known of the versification of Sulpicius Severus 's Life of St Martin by Paulinus of Périgueux , and that he counted among his friends the poet Venantius Fortunatus , himself the author of a poetic work on the miracles of St Martin . |
| 3 | However , the Census Microdata Unit staff , including a computer officer and a research associate , will be doing evaluative work on the samples when they are loaded and usable . |
| 4 | This has led both to exciting theoretical work on the processes underlying face recognition and useful practical work on the way faces are learned and what things affect the way witnesses to a crime remember the culprits . |
| 5 | Perhaps the European audience is being spared more difficult or anomalous work on the grounds that it ca n't be understood out of context . |
| 6 | Self employed craftsmen are called in to do specific work on the cars being restored , each with their own special skills . |
| 7 | Aristotle , no doubt , must have included them in his lost work on the customs of the barbarians . |
| 8 | I 'd like to take you back to one or two more aspects of your actual work on the railways . |
| 9 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 10 | Similar work on the sources of the instrumental , particularly keyboard , works has begun only in the last decade or so , and is now bearing fruit in a far clearer understanding of Bach 's thoughts and intentions . |
| 11 | Ralph Mayer 's huge informative and comprehensive work on the materials used in permanent painting has recently been updated and revised , making it an easier read for professional artists , restorers and amateur painters . |
| 12 | It was designed both to whet commercial appetite for the more ambitious ‘ large work on the Birds of Australia ’ , which he had in mind , and to establish the scientific validity of the enterprise . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The fact that so many of hierarchy 's problems show up in the form of individual misbehavior has led to one of the most widespread illusions in business , namely that a company 's managerial leadership can be significantly improved solely by doing psychotherapeutic work on the personalities and attitudes of its managers . |
| 15 | Much of the anthropological work on the methods of child rearing , and the type of socialization that children experience in the various cultures humanity has developed , fails to take account of one important interconnection Freud saw between infant sexuality and the need of civilization to use the energy of sexuality for its purposes . |
| 16 | The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’ |
| 17 | My doubts have been fuelled by some interesting ( but fragmentary ) empirical work on the costs of transmitting information , how spillovers are transmitted between firms , and , finally , the phenomena of technology trading and other forms of managed technology flows . |
| 18 | For that evening , as work finished , the Zoo Curator himself had summoned him to the building near the Cages where they did a lot of the scientific and veterinary work on the birds . |
| 19 | Built of stone with long and short work on the corners , it is in four stages with pilaster strips from the ground to the belfry , round arches in the second stage , pointed arches in the third , and narrow window openings in the belfry . |
| 20 | Chadwick was the first to attempt a general work on the origins of the Anglo-Saxons combining historical and archaeological evidence , a theme which has tended to dominate the subject to the present day . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | We organise regular talks , walks and money-raising activities and also conservation work on the reserves and voluntary wardening . |
| 23 | But there is Marxist work on the origins and on typologies of art which properly belongs in this first division . |
| 24 | Those which pertained to his projected work on the Birds of Australia he kept , about 20 species in all , surrendering the rest to his friend Eyton , as promised . |
| 25 | Kelly also has two shows of brand new work on the boards these days : one , of paintings at Blum Helman from 11 November to 2 January , and another at Castelli from 21 November to 19 December in which he abandons the wall in favour of a large piece meant to be looked down upon and circumambulated . |
| 26 | Legal opinion was opposed to exclusive concentration upon criminal work on the grounds that the monotony tended to cause staleness , in judges and in counsel , leading to decreased competence and possibly a tendency on the part of judges to become ‘ prosecution-minded ’ . |
| 27 | They include biographies of Jessop , Tate and Felix , anthologies of cricket verse and fiction and — further proof that the best writers have interests extending far beyond the game , — the standard work on Roman Stone and Brick , based on the doctoral thesis resulting from his post-retirement work on the baths at Beauport Park , close to his Sussex home . |
| 28 | If , however , we do apply anthropological and linguistic perspectives to this recent work on the consequences of literacy , as I claim we must despite its claim to protection from them , then that work in fact turns out to be as biased as that of the earlier phases . |
| 29 | Colin Blakemore 's much publicised work on the eyes of monkeys and kittens is in example . |
| 30 | Parish poorhouses and workhouses were established for the destitute and if there was no work available , the unemployed were put to paid work on the roads or on local farms . |