Example sentences of "[is] [noun] ['s] work " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps the best example fur choreographers to study-is Petipa 's work for the corps de ballet , particularly in La Bayadère ( Scene of the Shades ) .
2 However , it is King 's work in Wales that is his great legacy .
3 The word appears twice in Dostoevsky 's letter to Katkov outlining Crime and Punishment , in the phrase ‘ unsteadiness of ideas ’ — which is natural since a drama of reflection is about to unfold : thinking is Raskolnikov 's work , as he tells the maid Nastasya .
4 Willingly she would have surrendered the gift of consciousness if only she might drift like these in a blind passion of being , exempt from question ; yet even as she yearned wistfully so , another voice inside her agitated mind was whispering the old caveat from the Rosarium : that all error arose from failure to begin with the proper substance , from a proud forgetfulness that the magisterium is Nature 's work and not the worker 's .
5 It is revealing however that , since its first announcement , the title has contracted from ‘ Le Siècle de Giorgione et de Titien ’ to ‘ Le Siècle de Titien ’ , for it is Titian 's work that forms the exhibition 's spine .
6 Birthing is woman 's work and thoo 'd only be in t'road . ’
7 On the other hand though , precisely because this is God 's work , not ours , let us not set our sights too low .
8 Their work is God 's work .
9 This is man 's work .
10 Whether the epitaph that was printed is Smart 's work at all is unknown .
11 I mean , they 're the ones that point out , no , we ca n't do that , that 's women 's work !
12 It 's women 's work .
13 Doctors think nursing is women 's work and that the girls will take the crumbs from the medical table .
14 WASHING up is women 's work , said Paul Blacker , 31 , after a turkey feast .
15 This is startling stuff until its context is taken into account : the source of this passage is Paul 's work on the lex Iulia et Papia , and it is quite evident from that that Paul intended no general statement , and could with justice complain about his remarks being taken out of context .
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