Example sentences of "work was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His most recent film work was the script for ROBIN HOOD ( starring Patrick Bergin ) which Working Title produced for Twentieth Century Fox . |
| 2 | It was not easy to think of a precedent , and one could be forgiven for concluding that the notorious obscurity of the poem came about not by the author 's design but accidentally , because the work was the product not of one mind but of two . |
| 3 | David Lodge , whose Changing Places ( 1975 ) and Small World ( 1984 ) are among the best of the Higher Education narratives , admits that Nice Work was the novel with which he consciously tried to lose the name of campus novelist . |
| 4 | If Nice Work was the novel with which Lodge gave two of his keenest preoccupations the slip — the university , partially , and Catholicism , totally — it was also the book which should end the habitual conflation in some minds of his own career and output with that of Malcolm Bradbury . |
| 5 | Infrastructure work was the bright spot in 1991 , output rising by 4 per cent . |
| 6 | His most celebrated science fiction work was The Foundation Trilogy , published in instalments in the early 1950s . |
| 7 | A minor problem which threatened to delay the second volume of Mary Leapor 's work was the epitaph [ see ML , 2 , 324 ] . |
| 8 | Although the central waterway was a spectacular construction , the most remarkable work was the Martesana canal that linked the city 's internal waterway system with the river Adda . |
| 9 | His best-known work was the Buxton Memorial Fountain in Parliament Square , which he designed with S. S. Teulon in 1865 as a memorial to his father , Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton , a slave trade abolitionist and prison reformer . |
| 10 | Added to this war work was the heavy railway rolling stock build-and-repair programme . |
| 11 | This engineering work was the laying in of two cross-overs , one at Wolverton and one just North of Bletchley . |
| 12 | Another factor in the slowing of the rescue work was the condition of the air in which the men had to work . |
| 13 | I qualified with one of the then Big Eight , but subsequently joined a smaller practice where the only difference between audit and accounts preparation work was the size of the fee . |
| 14 | The result of this work was the ‘ group system ’ of investigation which was attached to the next edition of Annex 13 and which is now contained in the ICAO Manual of Aircraft Accident Investigation . |
| 15 | One intellectual reason why Western Marxist writers accepted ‘ party discipline ’ and a rigid orthodoxy on their work was the conviction that the Bolshevik revolution ( and the spread of Marxist regimes to Eastern Europe , China , and Cuba ) had ‘ validated ’ the ‘ scientific ’ character of Marx and Engels ' work — credit which Communist thinkers also extended to Lenin 's reworking and extension of classical |
| 16 | The impetus for this work was the seemingly low prevalence rates generated by the Melton Mowbray study . |
| 17 | The main flaw with the system of categorisation of my work was the omission of the teaching component of the majority of these activities . |
| 18 | This is good country , with good villages in it , giving you a full exposure to the dark green or red-brown paint , on window shutters or exposed timbers , that creates such a decorative unity among Basque houses — so much so that I recall a feeling of outrage along this road , when I passed one traditionally built house whose paint work was the vilest turquoise . |
| 19 | As a Gaelic scholar his greatest work was the collation and editing of William Livingston 's poems , with his own memoir and introductory criticism , and was one of the translators of the Revised version of the Bible into Gaelic , He died in Edinburgh in 1907 . |
| 20 | Central to much of this new wave of work was the increased attention that was paid to political parties and interest groups . |
| 21 | Wastell 's greatest work was the completion of King 's College chapel in Cambridge , begun early in 1508 for Henry VII and completed in 1515 . |
| 22 | His last work was the reorganization of the telephone system in Malta . |
| 23 | Her only other published work was The Metrical Miscellany ( 1802 , 2nd edn. 1803 ) , an anthology of fugitive verse by contemporary celebrities , in which she also published twenty of her own poems ( including the hitherto uncounted prefatory verses of 1802 by ‘ The Editor ’ ) . |
| 24 | Teulon 's most prominently sited non-ecclesiastical work was the Buxton memorial fountain ( 1866 ) in Victoria Tower Gardens , Westminster , a richly decorated structure with Gothic arches and a mosaic-faced spire . |
| 25 | Subsequent examples included Moreton Hall , Whalley ( 1829 , demolished ) , while a further dimension of his work was the occasional introduction of details of a localized vernacular derivation — as in his unexecuted designs for a house in Rydal , Westmorland , for William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] ( 1827 ) which incorporated the cylindrical chimneys characteristic of traditional building in the Lake District . |
| 26 | She was , fundamentally , a good person but the side we all saw at work was the side that could not cope with the constant expansion of the business . |
| 27 | During the course of this research , the main thrust if the work was the development of the criteria needed for teaching about how Prolog executes a program . |
| 28 | When he arrived , getting down to work was the last thing on his mind . |
| 29 | The real conflict which most of all inhibited our work was the conflict between the professional and the politician ; between sensible transport management in the public interest and personal discretion . |
| 30 | Another important development in my academic career in 1962–1969 was a close association with the Survey of English Usage : a research centre for the study of present-day English founded by , and attached to my Department at U.C.L. The most important part of the Survey 's work was the compilation of a large corpus of modern English texts , both spoken and written . |