Example sentences of "work on [art] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But there is Marxist work on the origins and on typologies of art which properly belongs in this first division . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The work will include preparing designs for planning of the archaeological exploration of the site ; conservation and restoration work on the monuments ; control of access to tourists and local inhabitants ; additional legal measures to protect the site ; and visitor and tourist facilities . |
| 9 | Powell 's scholarship ranged from work on the letters M–N , Q–R , Si–St , and U–V , for the Oxford English Dictionary , an edition of the translation by Nicholas Love of Bonaventura 's Meditationes Vitae Christi of c .1410 , studies of the Adventurer of John Hawkesworth [ q.v. ] , the bibliography of Samuel Johnson , Thomas Percy , Thomas Pennant , and Robert Southwell [ qq.v. ] , contributions to the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature , vol. ii ( 1940 ) and the Yale edition of Johnson ( 1963 ) , to a collaboration with John Munro on ‘ The London Shakespeare ’ ( 1958 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'd like to take you back to one or two more aspects of your actual work on the railways . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The best example of the application of this approach is the work on the effects of cutting the corpus callosum in humans ( Gazzaniga 1985 ) . |
| 15 | The researcher 's work on the effects of taxes on individuals and households draws heavily on the government 's Family Expenditure Survey . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He disappeared and Paul , leaning on the wind , began work on the bags . |
| 18 | But I think Sabine Jourdain did most of the work on the paintings and I think you knew it . ’ |
| 19 | Durance said : ‘ Maurin and Joseph believed that as long as Sabine promised never to talk about the extent of her work on the paintings there 'd be no trouble . |
| 20 | Decommissioning work on the reactors began four years ago , but only now can the outside world tell the difference , as giant cooling pipes are lifted out by crane |
| 21 | And then we 'll see — if we can get rid of the muscle spasms , if the pain stops , then I 'll go to work on the muscles . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When the structural work on the houses was completed , the furniture , tapestries , paintings , carpets and hangings were restored and replaced . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 26 | Moira Burgess , the compiler of the 1986 edition of the Directory of Authors in the Scottish Fiction Reserve , has been asked to begin work on the revisions needed for the next edition , projected for publication in the course of 1993–4 . |
| 27 | It was Nicholas junior who had shared his night watches ; his work on the Harmonies shows him to have been a prodigy . |
| 28 | In any one institution such nurses are very few , and they find themselves cut off from research nurses elsewhere , as well as from nurses engaged in routine work on the wards . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And the regularity work , which is what we call the work on the accounts , the opinion on the accounts , the work seems very well , and the timetable that was agreed with er , the County Treasurer offices . |