Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] ' work " in BNC.
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| 1 | They show how the market for solicitors ' work has altered with the development of criminal legal aid and the threat to established sources of income from divorce , conveyancing and personal injury claims . |
| 2 | You can — in a positive way — by helping the Rochdale Group make their Auction of Artists ' Work a huge success . |
| 3 | A slide index of artists ' work is available to help the potential purchaser . |
| 4 | It is worth considering the French model since , with the introduction of the national core curriculum , there will be far less time in the school day to devote to non-specialist teaching ; and with the new terms and conditions for teachers there may well be many who will want a strict regulation on the number of hours ' work they will put in each day . |
| 5 | The well drafted schedule only requires checking afterwards , it does not require another couple of hours ' work trying to remember what people said or what one 's own peculiar hieroglyphics made during the interview were meant to convey . |
| 6 | Now and then , Kitty would volunteer to do a couple of hours ' work on the barrow , but once she had eaten her way through the day 's profits she would soon disappear . |
| 7 | He did a couple of hours ' work , and he got two free tickets to Canada . |
| 8 | The breadth of Mingus ' work is represented by everything from jug-band jollity , the wounded blues of ‘ Atom Bomb ’ featuring Rolling Stones Watts and Richards , Henry Rollins ' hipster piss-take on ‘ Groovy ’ and the bad blood and subterranean tremors of ‘ Erectus ’ , effortlessly contrasted with the tingling majesty of ‘ Love Bird ’ . |
| 9 | My disagreeable reaction to the photos reminded me of the way I — and a host of others — responded to the last major American exhibition of Koons ' work two years ago . |
| 10 | Mm , so it 's only a couple of months ' work really |
| 11 | They will examine the social importance of journalists ' work over the last 25 years , particularly with regards to the Troubles . |
| 12 | The absence of a thoughtful approach blights this area of schools ' work . |
| 13 | In each of these contexts — HMI reports , APU exercises or national reading surveys — to move from national assessment to a local authority assessment and then to a school 's performance ( summed up in the achievement of its individual pupils ) provided a method of finding out whether , in some of the measurable parts of schools ' work , matters were standing still or edging forward . |
| 14 | This pressure must bring about greater awareness of the need for good management techniques both in the organisation of a practice or department and in the execution of clients ' work . |
| 15 | Finally , exegesis of Keynes ' work has concentrated inordinately on the ‘ model ’ of the General Theory , to the exclusion of Keynes ' earlier economic ideas and also his epistemology . |
| 16 | A 32-day strike in the Karaganda coal fields involving 20,000 miners ended on June 6 with agreement that 15 per cent of production would in future become the property of miners ' work collectives . |
| 17 | But in most of Williams ' work I feel the kind of observations being ‘ made ’ … seem to me too casual , however delightfully phrased , to be especially interesting … |
| 18 | In the later development of Barthes ' work , and in the work of others who followed similar trajectories ( e.g. Coward and Ellis 1977 ) , this analysis moves further from the specific contents of the objects and their social impact , to address the problem of the media itself , and the nature of the sign . |
| 19 | What the Henry Pratt books ( there is a second in print , Pratt Of The Argus , and a third imminent ) have in common with the rest of Nobbs ' work is his love of running gags and bizarre symmetry , an interest which made Perrin so relentlessly funny and reached its peak in the near-geometric farces of the two Bit Of A Do series . |
| 20 | As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence . |
| 21 | Two days ago they had arrived at Palma airport , Steve elated at the prospect of a couple of weeks ' work in his own special paradise place on earth and Ruth stuffed with foreboding . |
| 22 | Of Gleizes ' work he said : ‘ Standing in front of his canvases I had the very definite impression of a sobering up after an Impressionist debauch . ’ |
| 23 | This is a comprehensive slide collection of illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators ' work , which is open for clients to visit and from which they can select the illustrators they consider to be most suitable for a particular job . |
| 24 | Although this brief outline can not do justice to the complexity and detail of Poulantzas ' work , it does convey enough of its character and aspirations to form the basis of a critical discussion , and in this part of the chapter I shall focus on three connected questions , all concerned with the explanatory power of the theory . |
| 25 | To return to my Degas quote : many of the writers seem to be appropriating what they see as ‘ feminist tools of socio-political deconstruction ’ by examining details of Degas ' work according to a binary opposition of woman as object/man as Baudelairean flaneur . |
| 26 | Our fascination with the minutiae of everyday life , our knowledge of its texture , smell and colour , is the subject of Godfrey-Isaacs ' work . |
| 27 | Certain aspects of centres ' work may have been less successful than others ( there was a considerable and unproductive stress on making inefficient ‘ cheap ’ material such as bead microscopes ) and some centres like Nsukka , Nairobi , Domasi and Njala were more active than others but the overall record in terms of creation of exciting relevant material based on children 's experience is indeed impressive . |
| 28 | The programme of workshops linked to shows is a central part of Pegasus ' work . |
| 29 | It 's functional and cheap and takes the work out of mothers ' work — the opposite of the colour supplements ' fascination with food and its production and the backlash against junk food , which present a chic counterculture of cooking not as work but as leisure and pleasure . |
| 30 | GRIST regulations ( section 9 , DES , 1986 ) allow the curriculum component of advisers ' work to be a charge against DES funds and this has released a number of posts frozen by local government cut-backs . |