Piece-of-work Sentence Examples

You are a piece of work!

During the World War he served with the headquarters staff of the British army in France (1916-7), attaining the rank of colonel, and later was Director of Information under the Prime Minister (1917-8), and his History of the War (Nelson) was an admirable piece of work.

The term is also applied specifically to an offer to do a specified piece of work or to supply certain goods for a certain sum or at a certain rate or to purchase goods at a certain rate.

A very charming piece of work of a lighter kind was inspired by a question from his friend, Mrs Katherine Phillips (the "matchless Orinda"), asking "How far is a dear and perfect friendship authorized by the principles of Christianity?"

Walsingham's most important work is his Historia Anglicana, a valuable piece of work covering the period between 1272 and 1422.

His reconstruction of the True Discourse of Celsus (1753), from Origen's reply to it, is a competent and learned piece of work.

Towards the end of his life he was occupied with experimental inquiries into the laws of the conduction of heat in bars, and his last piece of work was to show that the thermal conductivity of iron diminishes with increase of temperature.

It is a marvellous piece of work.

It is such a piece of work as I have not yet seen any like it.

This appointment was inaugurated by two events, - a course of eight lectures on sound, which proved no success and was not repeated, and the determination by means of a revolving mirror of the speed of electric discharge in conductors, a piece of work leading to enormously important results.

He retired from parliament in 1892, and died on the 29th of January 1896, his last piece of work being the drafting of a report for the royal commission on Irish financial relations, of which he was chairman.

Of these works only two remain perfect, St Sophia in Constantinople, now a mosque, and one of the architectural wonders of the world, and the church of SS Sergius and Bacchus, now commonly called Little St Sophia, which stands about half a mile from the great church, and is in its way a very delicate and beautiful piece of work.

No one was admitted to mastership until he had served his apprenticeship, nor, as a rule, until he had shown that he could accomplish a piece of work to the satisfaction of the gild.

The invention of the apparatus, legalized in 1879, for the determination of the flash-point of petroleum, was another piece of work which fell to him by virtue of his official position.

He deserves congratulations for his fine piece of work.

Not too bad a piece of work by Munro in 1891, using existing maps and aneroid barometer!

They could also create a decorative border for a piece of work.

The Serial Killers Club, as the title and subject matter might suggest, is a blackly comic piece of work.

None the less; this is a truly enthralling piece of work.

Here the individuals referred to include retiring foresters, retiring forest researchers or consultants who have completed a certain piece of work.

It is not an academic piece of work and findings are inevitably highly impressionistic.

Module 6 - The Practical Project This is an internally assessed, externally moderated, piece of work.

This is a really monumental piece of work by an artist at the peak of his powers.

She may be, as I am told, a thoroughly nasty piece of work.

I am still thrilled and often amazed how an idea in my mind develops into a finished piece of work.

Saddam may be a nasty piece of work but he had nothing to do with flying planes into the World Trade Center.

Many applicants submit their undergraduate dissertation or similar extended piece of work.

In addition, a poem written especially for the retiree will be far more special than a random piece of work by an unknown author, much like a handwritten letter compared to a commercial greeting card.

Smudge marks from dirty fingers are sure to ruin an otherwise perfect piece of work.

Writing is a process; you can’t expect to have a publishable piece of work on the first attempt.

You need to develop a self-critical eye, so that you don’t fool yourself into thinking a piece of work you’ve done is good enough only to find that the editor who commissioned it doesn’t think it’s good enough.

The next time you watch a major film at the theater, you'll do so with a greater understanding of what went into making it the exciting piece of work that it is.

Hearts-the symbol of love and also bravery is a great design that can stand alone or act as the basis for a larger piece of work.

Fire tattoos are much more than just something to spice up and old piece of work.

This type of design is called a "slave pattern" and you begin with a ring around your ankle with a piece of work running to the top of your foot that then covers it.

Japanese characters can be a part of a larger tattoo design or stand alone as a beautiful, inspirational piece of work.

The description of the gold and silver retable given to the high altar of Ely by Abbot Theodwin in the 11th century, shows it to have been a large and elaborate piece of work decorated with many reliefs and figures in the round.