Example sentences of "[noun] and work in a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was , he felt , one of the advantages of living and working in a small town .
2 Employee attitudes are likely to range from excitement at the prospect of living and working in a foreign country to dread of having to adapt to a different climate , culture and life style .
3 His parents fully understood his difficulties and raised no objections when he said that he wanted to live in the poorest part of South-East London for a year , to study conditions and work in a lay capacity amongst the people .
4 By comparison housework is boring , lonely , unrewarding work , and it has none of the prestige associated with meeting famous people and working in a glamorous establishment like Claridges .
5 The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept .
6 Payne cut his own tools from honeysuckle , acorns , vines and leaves and worked in a restrained manner on a red-brown calf impregnated with birch bark oil — a leather often known as ‘ russia ’ .
7 Sixty-six years of age and unmarried , John lived in Dailly and worked in a small coal mine called Kilgrammie , on Bargany estate .
8 Production workers are likely to be more concerned with the task and to work in a high structure organization .
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