Example sentences of "worked [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The groups of women artists who met and worked collaboratively during the same period are less clearly referenced in standard texts .
2 But this joint venture between the two parents ' genes worked only for the main genes within the nucleus of a living cell .
3 For all his systematic innovative accomplishments , Edison worked only in the electrical field .
4 Polybius analysed that part of the Roman government which had superficial similarities with a Greek league , but never asked himself how central and southern Italy worked together with the Roman authorities .
5 He and I we we worked together on the electrical staff at colliery .
6 Close bonds developed between the crew members as they lived and worked together on the 67-foot steel vessel for 24 hours a day , sometimes in life-threatening situations .
7 Further savings could come if countries that are developing breeder technology worked together on the next generation of reactors .
8 Brenda often thought that this was the part of the working day she liked best , the hour before the staff arrived and the work of the Lab got really under way , when she and Inspector Blakelock worked together in the quiet emptiness of the hall , still and solemn as a church , making up a supply of manila folders ready to register the day 's new cases , repacking exhibits for collection by the police , making a final check of the Laboratory reports to courts to ensure that the examination was complete , that no relevant detail had been omitted .
9 Gedge 's amiable approach worked best in the smaller venues where he would chat with members of the audience and use his intellectual wit to demolish hecklers .
10 There is a large degree of uncertainty about the extent to which women worked underground in the eighteenth-century coal industry .
11 Eriugena himself was never part of the Carolingian ecclesiastical establishment and worked directly under the private patronage of Charles the Bald .
12 It is notable that despite Rogers 's High Anglicanism he worked harmoniously with the Congregationalist Stead and was actively involved with the interdenominational Browning Hall .
13 Finds at the south Iranian site of Shahr-i Sokhta , as well as much further afield in Egypt , suggest that lapis lazuli was circulated in the form of lumps and worked up at the various centres .
14 It worked out at the 10s 0d a week 7pension .
15 His acceptance speech , in March 1985 , promised that the strategy worked out by the 26th Party Congress — over which Brezhnev had presided — and at subsequent meetings of the Central Committee would remain unchanged : a policy of the ‘ acceleration of the country 's socioeconomic development [ and ] the perfection of all aspects of the life of the society ’ .
16 Over the following five years , in a textbook case of the value of basic research , the microprocessor programmers learned to adapt the ideas worked out by the academic researchers , and in doing so created a new , if quite small , industry .
17 THE United States and Soviet Union will be invited to take part directly in resolving the conflicts in El Salvador and Nicaragua , under proposals worked out by the foreign ministers of the five Central American peace plan countries in a pre-summit meeting here .
18 THE United States and Soviet Union will be invited to take part directly in resolving the conflicts in El Salvador and Nicaragua , under proposals worked out by the foreign ministers of the five Central American peace plan countries in a pre-summit meeting here .
19 Dorothy and her husband worked tirelessly for the various mission projects .
20 But in practice the new Ottoman rulers worked well with the Circassian mamluks with whom they shared a common linguistic and cultural background .
21 The project was heavily criticized by the Liberals in the 1990 election campaign , and opinion surveys showed that there were considerable public misgivings about the enterprise , and the government worked hard in the post-election period to increase investment in the project from countries other than Japan .
22 He worked consistently on the third act , and by the end of the year he had finished a draft of the entire play .
23 In March , Boesky is the star witness at the trial of Michael Milken , the junk bond king who faces 98 charges of securities fraud and who worked closely with the disgraced arbitrageur .
24 He worked closely with the German founder of the movement , Richard Schirrmann ( later ousted by the Nazis ) , and with the idealists who were establishing youth hostels in other countries .
25 She says they worked closely with the Hindu community in Cheltenham who introduced them to a teacher from Birmingham who taught them .
26 Throughout a life spent in experimental anatomy he worked primarily with the spinal mammal and its reflexes .
  Next page