Example sentences of "work [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defense Department employs nearly 80 per cent of the civilian and military personnel who work for the federal government and , in 1978 , was paying over 5 million incomes to military personnel and civilian employees past and present . |
| 2 | He would not , for example , work for the Cuban government because Fidel Castro was not elected in a democratic election . |
| 3 | ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked . |
| 4 | Only work for the socialist revolution and you work for justice for everyone ; blacks , women , oppressed minorities everywhere . |
| 5 | Some committee clerks come to have an important role , especially when they work with the same committee and the same chairman for some time . |
| 6 | Work with the same partner as before . |
| 7 | Work with the same partner as before . |
| 8 | They work under the grim threat that armed and dangerous rebels could pick them off at any time . |
| 9 | It has been alleged that the assumption that only fiscal considerations are important ‘ makes the voting by feet hypothesis somewhat unrealistic , except in a setting where people work in the inner city and may choose among the suburbs for residence ’ ( Musgrave and Musgrave 1989 , p. 453 ) . |
| 10 | Then in the 1830s thousands of immigrants arrived to seek homes and work in the new town that had been laid out by Joseph Pease , the Quaker industrialist who had extended the famous Stockton to Darlington railway so as to export coal from his Teeside wharves . |
| 11 | Large numbers of women still work in the non-formal sector and in agriculture , but this does not show up in statistics . |
| 12 | Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television . |
| 13 | Mrs Shephard told farmers in her native Norfolk : ‘ Farming is a major industry whose importance to maintaining the health of rural life , both for those who work in the country- side and those who enjoy it as an amenity , is all too easily forgotten . |
| 14 | Some wall anchors are corrosion-resistant , and through bolts are available which work in the same way as frame plugs . |
| 15 | People from different families live and work in the same area and as a result women are forced into Burkhas . ’ |
| 16 | They still work in the same department and there does n't appear to be any further problems . ’ |
| 17 | These rules still hold good for choreographers who work in the classical medium and the wise ones never neglect them . |
| 18 | One , the general public , can really only be reached by direct advertising in the media — the other , the ‘ gate-keepers , ’ those who work in the social field and in advice agencies , need to be approached much more selectively . |
| 19 | If and when they work on the tacit assumption or make such a blatant assertion as that , that there is no longer any poverty , because it is not true and unless and until it is true neither they nor we have got any right to be content . |
| 20 | Which they work on the same system as a as a rotovator . |
| 21 | Modern EEGs work on the same principle as the sprung mirror galvanometer — i.e. they are capable of measuring very fast changes in potential difference between the electrodes , but are relatively insensitive to slow changes . |
| 22 | Night , he wrote , work on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass , day , sleep and write this freewheeling commentary on the entire project , viz. on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass . |
| 23 | Sponge filters are the ones that come to mind , but these work on the biological action and have to be allowed to mature before they become really effective . |