Example sentences of "[noun] work [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | GUNMEN in Sierra Leone yesterday killed two nurses and two drivers working for the Red Cross , ICRC staff said . |
| 32 | Asked about how the two parts of the exhibition about fifty autograph works in the first part followed by a section on debatable works by pupils and followers were connected , Dr Brown agreed that the two parts were , in fact , rather distinct . |
| 33 | One of the most significant pioneer works on the British Flora was Cybele Britannica ( Watson , 1847–1859 ) ( Cannon , 1978 ) . |
| 34 | In the absence of any agreement with your neighbour , you will not have any rights to carry out repairs or general maintenance works to the exposed face of your wall . |
| 35 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 36 | But it is damage wrought on the international competitiveness of American firms that really gives pause for thought . |
| 37 | However , it was only when the driver turned to the left up the quays that the real damage wrought by the 1916 rising could be clearly seen . |
| 38 | She was a guest teacher at the prestigious Medau Teachers ' Whitsum Course in Coburg in 1983 and the trainers who experienced her work there have managed to persuade her to come to England to work with the English teachers . |
| 39 | Still to come is the awful Ghost Dad , basically another attempt to get Bill Cosby 's TV act to work on the big screen ( Bill plays a workaholic dad who , once dead , gets to spend more time with his family ) . |
| 40 | Male hostility to the notion that women could assume active roles within the social and political spheres of the movement in part prompted the guild , but it also endowed a jealously-guarded independence that enabled the guild to work outside the political boundaries of accepted cooperative practice . |
| 41 | In need of a cheap , large labour force after the economic and social havoc wrought by the Second World War , migration from the Caribbean and other ‘ New Commonwealth , countries was encouraged by both commercial and public sector British employers . |
| 42 | ‘ Shannon worked on the same production . ’ |
| 43 | The second Earl of Clarendon was involved in the Preston Plot of 1690 , as was Bishop Turner of Ely , whilst at various times Charles Leslie and George Hickes worked for the exiled Court . |
| 44 | In most of the non-militant fields , on the other hand , ballots were held , support for the strike was low , and the majority of miners worked through the entire period of the dispute . |
| 45 | Yet because Siferwas worked outside the main centres of manuscript production , his influence was less than his achievement merited . |
| 46 | Even where secrecy was not ordered from above , the squabbling Soviet bureaucracy worked against the efficient collection and distribution of data . |
| 47 | By October , BP will have 12 rigs working in the southern sector which will keep the Yarmouth base busy ! |
| 48 | A diplomat working at the military attaché 's office in Ankara , the Turkish capital , was seriously injured on Oct. 16 , 1989 , when a bomb exploded in his car . |
| 49 | The resulting report was believed to have established that while Olivetti had not directly breached COCOM guidelines , the company 's technicians working in the Soviet Union may have " upgraded " equipment which the USA claimed was used in developing the Soviet supersonic fighter , the Yak-41 . |
| 50 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 51 | ‘ My heart is in the workshop aspect of my job , ’ says Kristine Greenaway , who is a communication education specialist working with the United Church of Canada ( UCC ) in Toronto . |
| 52 | British Architectural Library ( London ) has more than 400 metres of shelving of manuscript works from the seventeenth century onwards , on all manner of architectural topics ; there are more than 250,000 drawings and 50,000 photographs on architecture and topography . |
| 53 | This is hot enough for fusion to occur but so far they have been unable to confine the hot plasma long enough and at high enough densities to generate more energy from fusion than is used to keep the machine working in the first place . |
| 54 | Cataloguing of foreign atlases and cartographic reference works into the automated catalogue continued , and a backlog which had accumulated during the move into the new building , was removed . |
| 55 | The mortise and tenon joints of the arms into the back can be marked out more conventionally with a mortise gauge working off the inside surfaces . |
| 56 | Top-down ( concept-driven ) parsers work in the opposite way . |
| 57 | Often the change in relationship that occurs as the parents work on the initial problem areas will generalize to other times of the day as the parent gains confidence and authority . |
| 58 | The body of a young child works at the maximum rate , enabling the child to process far more information in a given time than an adult could . |
| 59 | Returning to the site to work on the current $38 million contract is project director Ray Hodgson and Charles Stewart , construction manager . |
| 60 | Implicit in the use of direct observation was the need to work in the outside environment and to bring objects from the outside environment into the classroom . |