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

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1 But this joint venture between the two parents ' genes worked only for the main genes within the nucleus of a living cell .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 But in practice the new Ottoman rulers worked well with the Circassian mamluks with whom they shared a common linguistic and cultural background .
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