Example sentences of "[noun] was the work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newspapers received phone calls to the effect that the shooting was the work of the left-wing Dev-Sol group , which also claimed responsibility for killing a policeman in the southern town of Adana on the same day . |
| 2 | By then , the DIA had satisfied itself that Asmar 's murder was the work of drug-trafficking elements in the Lebanese Forces , the ultra right-wing Christian faction whose secret war council complex was barely half a block from Asmar 's office in Karantina . |
| 3 | This fuelled rumours that the murder was the work of the anti-Semitic Russian nationalist group Pamyat , from which Fr Men ( who had been born a Jew ) reportedly had received threatening letters . |
| 4 | Uniform provinces and municipalities were the programme of radical liberalism in the Cortes of Cadiz ; the final redrafting of the political geography of Spain into provinces was the work of Javier de Burgos , admirer alike of Napoleonic administrative techniques and the enlightened servants of Charles III . |
| 5 | A classic example of this kind of study was the work of the Harvard statisticians Frederick Mosteller and David Wallace on the Federalist Papers . |
| 6 | Thieves have stolen thirty thousand pounds worth of silver , including historic racing trophies from a stud farm.Police say the crime was the work of professionals , as only the most valuable solid silver was taken.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 7 | .. made its way below , a hole would burst in the ship ; not that they feared the ship taking fire , but they thought the light was the work of evil spirits ... ’ |
| 8 | The book on Cornish Crosses was the work of my archaeologist uncle , T. F. G. Dexter , completed by his brother , and seen through the press by his widow . |
| 9 | The more radical plan was the work of Presidential Council member Stanislav Shatalin and a commission set up by USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin [ ibid . ] . |
| 10 | Its principal focus was the work of the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) , the body established in 1964 with the task of ‘ quality control ’ in the public sector of higher education . |
| 11 | Wonderful Town was the work of the Bernstein/Comden/Green team responsible for On The Town , and although Wonderful Town is a little patchy in recording , ( which does not give a particularly strong idea of the show as a whole ) , there are plenty of excellent numbers , and their variety is refreshing from the barber-shop style ‘ My Darlin' Eileen ’ to the bluesy ‘ Ballet at the Village Vortex ’ , passing through the remarkable ‘ Swing ’ , which defies description . |
| 12 | The work of the pre-electric era was the work of preservation : drying and smoking meat , making cheese and hard bread to survive a long winter huddled in a chalet above the animals . |
| 13 | Although I had tarried in the Happy Isles for well over an hour , the actual handjob was the work of a moment — forty-five seconds , I 'd say . |
| 14 | The Ulster public , in the main , accepted that the bomb was the work of loyalist extremists . |
| 15 | The most recent outrage was the work of Count Orsini , who had been moved to his attempt by the hatred he felt for Napoleon III , whom he blamed for his failure to help the Italian national movement . |
| 16 | The alliance was the work of many minds , was shaped by many compromises , and influenced by the course of events in 1948 . |
| 17 | One was the work of Abdulnabi al-Hatash and his Majbari assistant in consultation with the leaders of their dependent groups ; the other was the work of the shaikhs of three of the five Zuwaya sections , who had consulted with Sulaiman Musbah and his brother Bil Qasim and other young men . |
| 18 | One of the first and most important results of this change of emphasis was the work done by the joint Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the mid-1960s . |
| 19 | The Gothic facade of St Pancras Station was the work of Sir George Gilbert Scott , and was built between 1867 and 1874 . |
| 20 | Aelfflaed 's testimony suggests that Aldfrith had not certainly engineered his son 's succession and that Osred 's triumph over Eadwulf was the work of a powerful faction at court devoted to the preservation of royal power in the hands of the descendants of Oswiu . |
| 21 | The implementation of this policy was the work in part of the new Roman episcopal appointees , from Cullen onwards , though the growing hatred of the ascendancy because of the famine and their continued landownership must have provided ample cause for separate schools for the majority of Roman catholic clergy . |
| 22 | The Lifetime Award to Tremayne was the work of a taken-over revitalised hotel chain aiming to crash the racing scene with sponsorship in a big way . |
| 23 | We all knew that this carnage was the work of Unionist Fascists bent on teaching the Republic a lesson — stay out of our affairs . |
| 24 | The production credits for the band 's first album ‘ T-Ride ’ ( released on Hollywood Records ) go to drummer Eric Valentine , while the songwriting was the work of bassist Arlie . |
| 25 | The book-binding in the library was the work of seven firms . |
| 26 | The stuffed saddle of lamb was the work of John King of Les Ambassadeurs , and Martin Docket , chef pâtissier of The Connaught , prepared the apple pastry dessert . |
| 27 | As Godoy claimed , the Tumult of Aranjuez was the work of seduced plebeians , a revolution that seeped down from above . |
| 28 | However , a government statement issued at the end of a meeting with the Unified Movements and Fronts of Azawad on May 20 declared that both parties were convinced that the attack was the work of " unscrupulous and lawless " people . |
| 29 | Lo Cascio was said to have established links with Colombian and Venzuelan drug cartels , while the financial side of the operation was the work of Ulrich Bahl , a German businessman who for some months had been imprisoned in the USA on charges of passing forged banknotes . |
| 30 | Since the church was the work of Pelligrini Tibaldi it means that at one time the two most famous of Milanese architects — Il Pellegrino and L'Alessi — were working in Piazza San Fedele at the same time , the one on the church , and the other on the Palazzo Marino . |