Sentence examples for standard work for from inspiring English sources

His dissertation, on the life cycle of the great water beetle, ditiscus, illustrated by his own micro-photography, has become a standard work for entomologists.

In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject.

George R. Stewart, a novelist whose 1936 Donner history "Ordeal by Hunger" has been the standard work for decades, begins by acknowledging just what it is about the situation that makes it so captivating.

It's standard work for an archivist, but as he listens to the tapes, a mystery unfurls and he's left wondering what happened to the woman on the tapes and the mysterious apartment building she was surveying.

In The Novel in France (1950), which became a standard work for British students, Martin Turnell expunges his name entirely from the history of the French novel, apart from a single reference to "the dreary realism of novelists like Zola".

'This must undoubtedly become the standard work for anyone interested in the artillery of the period.' Waterloo Journal In this detailed study Kevin Kiley looks at artillery in use throughout the Napoleonic period.

Some soloists spend their lives shuttling around the world, trotting out standard works for the umpteenth time.

These concertos, and the numerous chamber works that were conceived alongside them, have become standard works for conservatoire students and players of instruments with little mainstream repertoire.

But their very excellence proved fatal because, as the reading public dwindled, theirs remained standard works for far too long; their inevitable errors became enshrined, and their works acted as brakes on further progress.

The first book to present this dramatically revised history was Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (1979) which, with her anthology of texts from different Zoroastrian eras, became the standard works for students around the world.

Although Abbado would voice his reservations about visiting conductors who expected to shine in the standard works for which the orchestra had become famous rather than to challenge audiences with anything new, he was in a unique position to do both.