Example sentences of "to the work of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all acting is not an intellectual occupation , though a good mind is needed to respond imaginatively and practically to the work of authors and directors . |
| 2 | He was drawn to the work of IPTA ( Indian People 's Theatre Association ) , a cultural wing of the Communist Party of India , and worked with it as an actor — playwright — director till 1954 . |
| 3 | A presentation and introduction to the work of Eureka Audiovisual |
| 4 | A very small 45° bevel is ground on the top surface , giving an approach angle to the work of 90° ie , a scraping cut . |
| 5 | For the sake of convenience I shall apply the term la nouvelle critique to the complex of ideas emerging from the Paris of the 1960s , including many diverse strands : the ‘ classical ’ structuralism of the early Barthes , the poststructuralism of his later work , the deconstructionism of Derrida , and whatever name one gives to the work of Foucault and Lacan , in taxonomic historiography and dissident psychoanalysis respectively . |
| 6 | Veronica Forrest-Thomson — a brilliant though unstable poet and critic , who died tragically young in 1975 — referred in a review to the work of Barthes , Foucault , and Derrida ‘ which has led to a literary revolution in France and will lead — at last — to revolution in our theory and practice of literature in this country . ’ |
| 7 | The point has a particular relevance to the work of those who believe , like Foucault , following Nietzsche , that truth is a mere rhetorical device , employed in the interests of oppression , and say so at length . |
| 8 | The way he interprets it owes a lot to the work of the late Ivon Hitchens , who used a similar technique , with broad swirls and patches of paint , and little attention to details . |
| 9 | Of course , distance lends enchantment to the work of developers of the past . |
| 10 | Mr Clifton paid particular tribute to the work of the trades union representatives on the advisory committee . |
| 11 | Apart from working closely with the Benevolent Fund , The Association is contributing to the work of The Council of British Service and Ex-Service Organisations . |
| 12 | The European Area has made another considerable contribution to the work of the Association during the year . |
| 13 | Eliot points to the work of Bastian , Tylor , Mannhardt , Durkheim , Lévy-Bruhl , Frazer , Miss Harrison , and many other anthropological writers . |
| 14 | This last element , perhaps more than any other , is crucial for understanding why Marx and Engels attached so much more importance to the work of Morgan than they did to the work of the other evolutionist anthropologists whom they read . |
| 15 | This last element , perhaps more than any other , is crucial for understanding why Marx and Engels attached so much more importance to the work of Morgan than they did to the work of the other evolutionist anthropologists whom they read . |
| 16 | This meant that , although they could turn to the work of historians and anthropologists , they had to reinterpret that work in their own way . |
| 17 | The German Ideology makes no detailed references to specific studies of primitive societies or to the work of anthropologist . |
| 18 | This qualification applies as much to the work of writers such as Morgan as to his critics . |
| 19 | In addition to the work of a small but dedicated group of left wing militants who held shop stewardships at the Merseyside plant , he had received expert academic advice from two university lecturers who were sympathetic to the Communist international cause . |
| 20 | In 1945 , after sharing with Chain and Florey the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine , Fleming , in a speech given in Lyon , paid generous tribute to the work of Duchesne , which by then was known to him . |
| 21 | At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis . |
| 22 | The latter impression is largely due to the work of the tuba player , Bob Stewart , who plods along throughout in a delightfully flatulent way . |
| 23 | Richard Baxter 's view that it was advantageous for a pastor to be celibate in order to give himself fully to the work of the ministry was well known . |
| 24 | We will give priority to the work of the DTI Deregulation Unit in these areas . |
| 25 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 26 | An expert has been entrusted to the work of laying out the course . ’ |
| 27 | From his self-imposed exile in America , the Lebanese Maronite poet Khalil Gibran — whose verse and drawings have an uncanny similarity to the work of William Blake — was moved to write an angry , ferocious poem quite out of keeping with the gentle , philosophical message for which he is generally remembered : |
| 28 | The potential of such a situation is expressed in a different way by Brian McHale through reference to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin . |
| 29 | Note too the treatment of the decorated background created with stamped gesso under the gilding , akin to the work of goldsmiths . |
| 30 | Its present appearance is due to the work of Jean-Baptiste Mathey from Dijon . |