Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the only way you could actually make that work at all . |
| 2 | There 's a lot we can do , I think , to help the community in a wider sense , and I see that as one of the key elements of my work , to try and make that work . |
| 3 | 'You , if anyone , can understand , ’ she replied , and agreed that work could not even be thought of . |
| 4 | Most reviews concern departmental activities , although some have examined cross-departmental work ( such as government forms and property management ) . |
| 5 | These men , either forgetting or not realising that work is but a component of life and not a reason for it , are likely to have spent too much time working , to the exclusion of family and leisure activities . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's encouraging that work is being made which refuses this ridiculous demand for positive images , which tries to take on multiple aspects of identity . |
| 7 | Thereafter , it will be for the British presidency to carry that work forward . |
| 8 | Marlowe refuses to recognise the fact making a living for oneself in the countryside involves strenuous work and long hours of toil in order to reap the rewards afterwards . |
| 9 | Thank you chair , erm many of you will perhaps know that the health authority did some pioneering work looking at different standard mortality ratios in different wards in Oxfordshire , and came up with some rather disturbing evidence that some of the wards had significantly higher incidents of death for people primarily in the forty-five to sixty-four age range than others , and Phil and myself wish to continue that work by targeting those wards with a range of measures designed to alleviate some of those health inequalities . |
| 10 | We 'd obviously , we 'd like to get the agreement of this committee to continue that work and to take it up to the various bodies and consultation . |
| 11 | Two days later Sharon announced that work had begun on what he hoped would be the largest Jewish settlement in the West Bank , Avneh Hafetz , near the town of Tulkarm . |
| 12 | Whatever may seem the case to a man chasing a bus , running involves little work for most vertebrates . |
| 13 | A working culture which allows excessive overtime encourages sub-standard work , and poor inspection . |
| 14 | Orkney Children 's Panel , however , with Mrs Katherine Kemp at that time the Reporter , recommended social work help within the family . |
| 15 | Those given in the section ‘ Suggestion for further reading ’ should be enough for most readers ; the same is true for sociolinguistics , but I feel that any reading beyond basic introductory material ought to include some work by Labov , whose influence on the subject has been profound . |
| 16 | The Safrane made light work of the uncrowded road to the beer-producing town of Pilsen . |
| 17 | The small 6x3in plate was handy around corners and doorways , and used with sponge and bonnet , made light work of cleaning down silk emulsioned bathroom walls prior to repainting . |
| 18 | But she made light work of polishing off the shopping at a supermarket near her West London home . |
| 19 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |
| 20 | CHESHIRE made light work of Cornwall to open their championship programme with a resounding six wicket victory at Stalybridge yesterday . |
| 21 | And the £170,000 military breakdown gear made light work of pulling the battered truck out of the waters . |
| 22 | Willie Thorne made light work of the promising Nottinghamshire youngster , Anthony Hamilton , as he eased into the last 16 . |
| 23 | This is an example of using social work time as a resource rather than day care or a home help . |
| 24 | Unfortunately it is often the case that writers do not allow themselves to be so free in autobiographical disclosures as to say exactly how they felt on seeing some work of art . |
| 25 | Diane White will explain how Zanussi 's range of combination ovens , cookers , microwaves and fridges can make light work of Christmas cooking . |
| 26 | polytechnics , Strathclyde had already developed some work in the fields of modern literature and linguistics , and wished to expand research and teaching within other areas of contemporary cultural study . |
| 27 | It is interesting to compare this work with that of Lee ( 1988 ) on Hidden Markov Modelling of speech recognition . |
| 28 | We do not want this work to be carried out by outside contractors . |
| 29 | The paper describes early stages of a programme of research designed to investigate the effects of different ways of organizing social work teams . |
| 30 | Capper wished to develop both airships and aeroplanes for military use , and took advantage of Cody 's mechanical and practical skills to promote this work . |