Example sentences of "work of sir [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1991 , 27 , 1151 ) failed to mention that the special exhibition on the work of Sir William Henry Perkin was in addition to a poster exhibition that had been touring Essex and east London over the previous six months . |
| 2 | Dr Ryan took as his theme ‘ The challenge of financing air transportation growth ’ when he delivered the 50th lecture commemorating the life and work of Sir Sefton Brancker . |
| 3 | His style owed a great deal to the example of Holland as well as to the work of Sir Christopher Wren [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | Bankside was the work of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott , OM , the architect of Liverpool 's Anglican Cathedral , the rebuilt House of Commons and some of the last vital products of the Gothic Revival . |
| 5 | The Argonaut Press printed 975 copies on japan vellum of this work of Sir Walter Raleigh 's . |
| 6 | It was a brilliantly imaginative , and in parts satirical , account of the boyhood of King Arthur , loosely based on the work of Sir Thomas Malory [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | The first nude statue to be unveiled in London was the work of Sir Richard Westmacott and showed the Greek warrior Achilles in all his manliness ; a subject that had been chosen to represent the all-conquering powers of the Duke of Wellington , who seven years earlier had trounced the French at Waterloo . |
| 8 | A number of works , including his finest , Willey Hall , Shropshire ( 1813–15 ) , are in a monumental neo-classical manner developed from the late work of his uncles Samuel and James ; at Cuerden Hall , Lancashire ( 1815 ) , he experimented with a ‘ picturesque classicist ’ mode reminiscent in part of the work of Sir John Vanbrugh [ q.v. ] and in part of the contemporary ‘ primitivist ’ idiom ; while at Cranage Hall , Cheshire ( 1828–9 ) , he used the Tudor style and at Sherborne House , Gloucestershire ( 1829–34 ) , produced a convincing copy of an Elizabethan design . |
| 9 | These qualities were already present to a degree in certain early works , such as the Forfar town hall and the contemporary Kirriemuir church , while at Melville the somewhat perfunctory detail in the castellated style is accompanied by other features reminiscent of the work of Sir John Soane [ q.v. ] ; but his style developed rapidly after his Parisian visit of 1787 , when he doubtless encountered at first hand the revolutionary architecture of E.-L . |
| 10 | His major contributions to Welsh scholarship , however , were the numerous studies he published of the intricate structure of the four branches of the Mabinogi and of aspects of the Arthurian legend , a field in which his interest had been aroused by the work of Sir John Rhŷs [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | The Gothic facade of St Pancras Station was the work of Sir George Gilbert Scott , and was built between 1867 and 1874 . |
| 12 | It soon failed , but the novel idea has been considered an important precursor of the later work of Sir Ebenezer Howard [ q.v . ] . |