Example sentences of "work on [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1575 , he built Almshouses for the poor at East Greenwich , the first of their kind founded by a Protestant at a cost of more than £2,700 , and in 1581 , he published another work on the Duties of Constables , Borsholders , Tythingmen and other law and Lay ministers of the Peace . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After World War I ( in which he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps , stationed in Maidstone ) Freeman increasingly became involved in the eugenics movement , producing a lengthy work on the ills of society , Social Decay and Regeneration , in 1921 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thus the scarce research work on the effects of participation on effectiveness is further limited by its inability clearly to define ( and to measure ) what it is studying . |
| 7 | The best example of the application of this approach is the work on the effects of cutting the corpus callosum in humans ( Gazzaniga 1985 ) . |
| 8 | The researcher 's work on the effects of taxes on individuals and households draws heavily on the government 's Family Expenditure Survey . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His breadth of interest will be noted by those who have read his interesting Men-at-Arms book on Henry VIII 's army , or his work on the firearms of the Chinese Nationalist forces 1937–45 in the IWM Review . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | There was evidently some dilemma in Gould 's mind as to whether a work on the birds of Europe or just the birds of Britain would prove most lucrative . |
| 13 | A work on the birds of Europe might be of limited scientific value , as Gould himself confessed — it could hardly uncover any startling revelations — but it would be bound to attract the crucial number of subscribers . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | On 2 November 1836 , a year before the last part of Birds was published , Gould wrote to Jardine of his latest ambition : ‘ Would not a work on the Birds of Australia be interesting ? |
| 16 | During the next voyage of the Beagle , Bynoe contributed a number of new finds for the ornithologist 's work on the Birds of Australia . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Since my return I have been busily employed in recommencing my work on the Birds of Australia … |
| 20 | There is also to be a continuation of earlier work on the experiences of black school leavers seeking work and vocational training . |
| 21 | The research looks into gynaecological conditions from cancer to the menopause , infertility or pregnancy-related problems , together with work on the problems of babies before , during and after birth . |
| 22 | The Fraud Squad had been seeking the help of several journalists for some weeks , as part of its work on the findings of that official report . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Colin Blakemore 's much publicised work on the eyes of monkeys and kittens is in example . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Whitehall set to work on the implications of the Charter for postwar economic policy , but senior Ministers had no time to spare and the series of politicians who assumed responsibility for post-war planning had little weight in Cabinet . |
| 27 | It is exquisite work of an artist content with the archaic tradition , and the same designer is clearly at work on the fragments of the long south frieze ( chariots , horsemen , an altar ; fig. 61 ) . |
| 28 | Bell ( 1971 ) explains his work on the herbivores of the Serengeti , and Ewert ( 1974 ) describes his work on food recognition in toads . |
| 29 | Gregory records that he wrote ten books of histories , seven of miracles and one of the Life of the Fathers , together with a commentary on the Psalter , and a work on the offices of the Church , each in one book . |
| 30 | 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 . |