Example sentences of "working [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Firms are assumed to have unbounded capacity for working out strategies and payoffs , and for working through the abstract chains of reasoning which lead them to non-co-operative equilibrium strategies . |
2 | In those days there existed another Methodist Society , known as the Primitive Methodists , and they had established themselves in Chiswick using a room in Devonshire Road , and working amongst the labouring classes of the community . |
3 | Having spent years ensuring that mounts are cut accurately , and working with the straight lines of frames , I find straight lines just as pleasing in designs as curves , and I think an idea like this makes a pleasant change from the more popular floral compositions . |
4 | Our experience of working with the major breweries throughout the 1980s is that , undeniably , mistakes were made — sometimes on a very grand scale indeed . |
5 | Working with the ensuing feelings of anger and distress can make considerable demands on staff skill and patience . |
6 | But I do n't know quite why it is — maybe that 's one area where I do find there 's a bit of segregation , or maybe it 's just that people do n't have the time available , but it 's a different sector of the community who are working with the basic things like helping the old and the infirm more , just being able to give cups of coffee to people , or chatting to them , or visiting them , or whatever . |
7 | Computer Associates is believed to be working along the same lines for the HP platform . |
8 | In addition to trading , the women go to cities to demonstrate against domestic violence or to show solidarity with women working in the poor conditions in textiles factories . |
9 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
10 | Kornhauser ( 1978 ) has pointed out that the main tenets of control theory are to be found in the ideas of the pioneers of sociological criminology — the sociologists of the Chicago school , working in the early decades of this century ( Thrasher , 1927 ; Shaw , 1929 ) . |
11 | Henri Fayol , a French management theorist working in the early decades of this century , listed the functions of management as follows : |
12 | Not to do so means that they are not truly working in the best interests of the children . |
13 | Members working in the reserved areas of audit , investment business and insolvency . |
14 | Those members working in the reserved areas of audit , investment business and insolvency . |
15 | Perhaps influenced by the number of his contemporaries who showed neurasthenic tendencies , the Reverend Henry Newcome had founded a Society and formed a rule which had as its purpose the support of priests working in the growing parishes of newly industrialised cities . |
16 | The Rural Economy and Society Study Group ( RESSG ) provides a forum for research discussion amongst those working in the social sciences on the social and economic formation of rural areas in the Advanced Societies . |
17 | Differences amongst Oxfordshire teachers working in the different phases of education were only significant with regard to the efficiency and potency of SSE . |
18 | Teachers working in the three phases of education ( primary , middle , secondary ) seem to have experienced the review differently and have different attitudes towards it and towards SSE in general . |
19 | It is irrelevant that , so far as the employees are concerned , they are working in the same premises with the same equipment and on the same job as before the sale and perhaps have not even been informed that a sale has taken place ( Woodhouse v Peter Brotherhood Ltd [ 1972 ] 2 QB 520 ; Woodcock v Committee for the Time Being of the Friends School Wigton and Genwise Ltd [ 1987 ] IRLR 98 , CA ) . |
20 | The series focuses on the work of individuals working in remote cultures and in this programme the individual was a Cambridge mechanical engineer , Martin Ede , who is working in the Andean heights of Bolivia among the Aymaran Indians . |
21 | It has to be acknowledged that there is some potential risk attaching to this , particularly where the buyers are covenanting with the sellers , but such risk appears to be part of the price that conveyancers are prepared to pay for working within the commercial pressures in the modern conveyancing market . |
22 | Double marking raises problems for staff already under great pressure of examining three times a year and also working within the tight deadlines of examination week . |
23 | In an interview published in three West European newspapers on Dec. 14 , Willy Brandt , the former West German Chancellor who was in Moscow immediately before Honecker was deposed , maintained that a " bloodbath " had been prevented by Soviet Army officers , working within the senior echelons of the East German National People 's Army ( NVA ) . |
24 | The fertile combination of theory and practice was his own , however , and he stood at the head of a great group of people working on the new phenomena of electricity . |
25 | Wooden platforms or stages were erected at different levels , so that men working on the various portions of the vehicle were facilitated in their task . |
26 | The two have been working on the wackier areas of the music biz for many years ‘ dabbling in whatever takes our fancy ’ as Jim puts it . |
27 | His wife was a good linguist and keen geologist , and accompanied her husband on field excursions at home and abroad , as well as working on the Pleistocene deposits of the Cambridge area . |
28 | And er working at the hot plates of course that was a hot job as well . |
29 | Good presentation : dress standards of a person working at the highest levels of large corporations . |