Example sentences of "work by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Professor Miller proceeded to the changes in psychology wrought by the Second World War , which was interesting . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | If the changes wrought by the Glorious Revolution in England seem , by contrast , much more limited , it would be wrong to react too far and suggest that very little of significance was achieved by the events of 1688 – 9 . |
| 6 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 7 | Likewise , there is no single aspect of English Nonconformist life where the changes wrought by the nineteenth century are more obvious than in the position of ministers . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the destruction wrought by the Iraqi forces on Kuwait 's oilfields and refineries had been devastating and would take years to rectify . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | Also , strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population . |
| 11 | Weekly hours worked by adults with cystic fibrosis were not significantly different from those worked by the general population . |
| 12 | As a result , if the working week is shortened for full-time employees , the hours worked by the part-time employees must be reduced proportionally . |
| 13 | Re-opening of the Van Railway came in 1896 and it was then worked by the Cambrian Railways Company until absorbed by the GWR in 1923 . |
| 14 | Syracuse was not a naval empire but relied like Akragas on the exploitation of an agricultural interior , worked by the subjugated natives , the Sikels . |
| 15 | For Excess time payments — the amount is calculated by multiplying the number of days worked by the daily rate in the excess hours column . |
| 16 | For Excess travelling payments — the amount is calculated by multiplying the number of days worked by the daily rate in the expenses column . |
| 17 | Since the 1880s the mill has been worked by the White family , who still run it today . |
| 18 | ‘ On June 28 we are having an open day with various activities , a lot of displays and work by the junior section — WATCH . |
| 19 | If the English artist Mark Quinn can get his own head , cast in his own frozen blood , on display in the Saatchi Gallery in London ; if the Italian papers can be filled with agitated articles about whether ‘ a cardboard box covered in cloth , with bits of cardboard , bone glue , red pen , tempera and oil paint ’ , until recently exhibited at the Brera Academy in Milan , is or is not an authentic , therefore meaningful , work by the shamanesque German , Joseph Beuys ; if Duchamp 's own famous urinal of 1917 can grace the Palazzo Grassi in Venice as from this month , then surely there is room for those centuries-old objects of ancient devotion to be resurrected as the focus of the new cult . |
| 20 | Among the thirty-eight pictures on show are portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough , work by the Liverpool-born George Stubbs and the recently acquired ‘ Portrait of Mr and Mrs Fleetwood ’ by Joseph Wright of Derby . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the meanwhile , works by the Colombian artist Botero are omnipresent , from the Champs Elysée to the Grand Palais ( see The Art Newspaper No. 21 , Oct. 1992 , p. 31 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |