Example sentences of "and [noun sg] works [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Farms in the South-West region and sewage works in the North-West and Midlands were among the main offenders .
2 Iron and steel works on the coast of the coalfield have also been closed .
3 DS8 SECTIONAL COMPLETION AND PROGRAMMING WORKS ON THE BEACH
4 Joachim died , probably in Denmark , in 1535 ; some time before 1541 his relatives placed Daniel with a branch of his grandmother 's Wieland family , who trained him at their lead , copper , and silver mines and smelting works in the Rauris and Gastein valleys in the Tyrol , part of the archbishopric of Salzburg .
5 When the Demidovs had first built mines and smelting works in the hills , they had been fortified and special permission was obtained from the government for the industrialists to hire a private army for protection .
6 A brick and tile works in the village closed in 1974 , and a blacksmith 's shop was pulled down in 1953 .
7 An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground .
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