Example sentences of "a [noun] ['s] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you quite enjoy a writer 's work , if you turn the page approvingly yet do n't mind being interrupted , then you tend to like that author unthinkingly . |
| 2 | It may consist of a tape-slide sequence which can be shown to classes and groups or viewed singly by individuals , and conveying a particular unit of information or stimulus ; it may , on the other hand , be half a term 's work programme for a class , meeting twice weekly for an hour and three quarters each time It may appear as a number of elements in a schedule of work which also includes directed teaching , use of text book , and practical formal exercises , as well as enquiry work , the consultation of sources , and a problem-solving exercise involving the study of a filmstrip in relation to a work-sheet or a passage in a novel . |
| 3 | None the less the opposite argument is equally shaky ; it would be frightening to imagine teachers embarking on the planning of a term 's work or even one single-period unit without asking themselves the simplest questions : " Why am I doing this ? |
| 4 | A term 's work can be planned with a variety of experiences in different modes , enabling the slower students at least to master basic points and others to fill out this minimum with what the jargon calls " horizontal enrichment " , in other words different facets of the topic in wider contexts and relationships . |
| 5 | In other cases , a history-driven approach may be pursued , occupying perhaps half a term 's work , during which other prescribed National Curriculum subject requirements could also be covered . |
| 6 | Thus , whereas a horseman 's work formerly revolved almost entirely around his horses , his modern counterpart must not only be a tractor driver but a ‘ general farm worker ’ — a mechanic , a labourer and perhaps even a part-time stockman , too . |
| 7 | A lawyer 's work has the same value as that of a barber in that all men have the same right to cam a living from their labour . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , they have n't the structure of a lawyer 's work , ’ she said . |
| 9 | It would be tedious to quote more than a few examples of the evidence from parliamentary commissions , the STC , union reports and surveys etc. , but the following quotations are typical : " About the only work which the women can do is to stand or sit at their formes and set up type ; and to distribute the types back again into the cases , but of course this is only a portion of a compositor 's work " ( an employer ) ; " " As far as mere type-lifting is concerned , she may do , but there is other rough work in connection with compositors " work which I do not think a woman is qualified for " ( a union leader ) ; " Women … get the best , i. e. the simplest jobs … they are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work " ( an employer ) . |
| 10 | Example of a child 's work — Abbeydale School |
| 11 | I will even stoop to a queen 's work if you will share the throne with me . |
| 12 | For committees ( except those on private or hybrid bills ) , their public proceedings are covered only when one or other of the broadcasters , independent producers or other organisations wishes to film some part of a committee 's work for use in a programme . |
| 13 | Carefully chosen attributes both explained a sitter 's work and interests and provided a satisfying interplay of forms , within which shapes were made to rhyme in curious and subtle ways . |
| 14 | In addition , the importance of a group 's work may be assessed by noting the extent to which it has influenced the overall structure of concepts . |
| 15 | We warned her that a wife 's work is never done . |
| 16 | Disguised wage work refers to work where one or more enterprises appropriate part of the product of a person 's work without the person officially being an employee of the firm . |
| 17 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 18 | It eventually showed fishermen preparing and setting out on a peaceful evening for a night 's work ; while they are at sea , a storm blows up . |
| 19 | Twenty or so fishing boats were moored to the pierside , fresh from a night 's work . |
| 20 | as if to prove that a Shetlander 's work is never done , the same storms that sank the Braer and then cleaned away the oil caused erosion of the coast along the edge of the unexcavated portion of Jarlshof , and emergency coastal defences had to be installed prior to the provision of a permanent seawall . |
| 21 | A day 's work still to do before the Sabbath and they would have sore heads in the morning . |
| 22 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 23 | After a day 's work , it was a bit of light relief to use it . |
| 24 | This was the hub of her universe and here the family assembled after a day 's work , in the coal-mine or ( like Edward 's beautiful elder female cousin ) the local tinworks . |
| 25 | All in a day 's work : since Aesculapius , doctors have enjoyed complaining . |
| 26 | At one such meeting a heckler had got a great round of cheers from the assembled throng when he had told Clasper to get off his bloody soap-box and do a day 's work for a bloody change . |
| 27 | From the Board 's viewpoint the negative factors relating to evening courses were concerned mainly with the instructors , who might well be tired after a day 's work and might also be anxious about a long journey home afterwards . |
| 28 | Most pickers earn the equivalent to the government minimum daily wage in a day 's work , but they do not get any of the benefits of social security payments , minimal though they are , that employed workers receive nor the security of a regular wage . |
| 29 | He is conscious of Marjorie 's watery blue eyes scanning him speculatively over the rim of her teacup , inviting further discussion of Sandra , but he ca n't face it , not this morning , not with a day 's work ahead of him . |
| 30 | The last time I had an office job was in 1986 — it was a disaster , and I 'm pleased to be able to say that I have n't done a day 's work since . |