Example sentences of "work was [art] " in BNC.

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1 But his last work was a collection of endearingly blurred photographs and awful verses entitled Bernard Shaw 's Rhyming Guide to Ayot St Lawrence .
2 Her work was a credit to her , for in those days , long before washing machines and tumble driers she would wash , dry and iron sheets for the princely sum of 4d .
3 He said Mah Work was a load a' drivel I
4 Much of that work was a strain on the eyes , peering through magnifying glasses and into microscopes .
5 Bartlett 's work was a reaction to the strict controlled experimenting of Ebbinghaus , using nonsense materials , and he set out to establish that the process of learning involved a restructuring on the part of the individual towards a better organisation from his own point of view .
6 His first major work was a defence of the Vienna settlement .
7 The initial stimulus for the work was a story : The Shrinking of Treehorn by Florence Parry Heide .
8 Coleman 's work was a logical extension , aiming to see which forms of design and layout were most associated with ‘ lapses in civilised behaviour ’ .
9 The line surprises us , for much of the poet 's work was a squeezed flannel of disenchantment .
10 I had never done a drawing solely in watercolour crayons before , and so the whole piece of work was a challenge from beginning to end to end .
11 The only major late work was a programmatic second symphony , ‘ Chivalry ’ , first performed in 1881 at the Crystal Palace .
12 The main conclusion of this work was a refutation of the ‘ azoic theory ’ , originally put forward by Edward Forbes [ q.v. ]
13 His last major work was a war memorial in Stourbridge , unveiled in 1931 , and he died 5 February 1933 , at home in Hyde Park Street , London .
14 For Bernard , work was a means to an end , be it a fast car a sailing boat or a factory offering large-scale employment .
15 Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level .
16 In the main , Joseph 's work was a logical continuation of that of his mother and her ministers .
17 In a sense the recent pressure of work was a blessing , for it isolated her , forcing her to concentrate so intensely that she simply had no time to dig deeply into such perplexities .
18 They said that the revered ancient literary work was a holy book , not a sex manual .
19 The quality of our existing work was a deciding factor and all WGEC employees should be congratulated for the part they have played in helping us to win this contract .
20 It was endless Work was a chore .
21 He further commented that political work was a " lifeline " .
22 Thus , for instance , Italy began building in a Romanesque style earlier than most nations — for its emergence from Roman work was a natural corollary — continued it later , produced little Gothic work and then burst forth into the Renaissance a century and more before the rest of Europe .
23 In the Bedfordshire village of Cardington in 1752 the activity rate among females of age to work was a very high 82 per cent .
24 But , in addition , they implied that O'Keeffe 's work was a revelation of female sexuality .
25 Most artists would be horrified if critics said their work was a load of rubbish , but Veronica Goslings would think it a compliment .
26 Her devastated husband Robin , an engineer , said : ‘ If her work was a factor , it was only one among others .
27 ‘ If her work was a factor it was only one among many .
28 And getting them to work was a constant problem and collecting the fines , and we do actually know about this .
29 Marx 's whole work was an attempt to show that this image was false ; that there was nothing inevitable about all this , but rather that this apparent powerlessness of the worker to determine the wage was the product of the distribution of property and especially of the distribution of the ownership of such things as land , machines , tools , etc .
30 The maximum permitted enrolment was thirty-two students and written work was an explicit expectation .
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