Example sentences of "[noun] work [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 2 | As an organisation the Trust owes much to the tourist industry and it welcomes the opportunity to work alongside the regional tourist boards and the travel trade . |
| 3 | Gould found that he could put those skills to work via the Labour Party — ‘ If the metal shop at school was hell on earth , distributing leaflets and canvassing was heaven , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Frenzied attempts to work off the festive flab can lead to muscle and tendon injuries as people try to do too much too quickly . |
| 5 | It resulted in last year 's decision to close the European exploration headquarters in Glasgow with the transfer of key personnel to work from the main North Sea operational base in Aberdeen , a process which should be completed by the end of this year . |
| 6 | Some used this expertise to work in the private sector as consultants advising on urban policy ; in one case a firm that employed no Black people was selected for its ‘ inner city expertise ’ to evaluate the Handsworth Task Force in inner Birmingham which it had previously also been paid to advise but which was now being shut down to make room for a newly fashionable Urban Development Corporation , this time in the Birmingham Heartlands ( sic ) . |
| 7 | Floy remembered what Nuadu Airgetlam had said about the Robemaker taking sacrifice from the ordinary Irish people and putting the sons to work in the Dark Workshops and guessed that the people had simply lost heart . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to Alès to work in the municipal library , ’ she replied . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard Co has teamed with Banyan Systems Inc to put Banyan 's Vines and enterprise network services up under HP-UX Unix on Precision Architecture machines , and provide Vines users with easier means of using HP printers with a network adaptor to work with the new MIO interface . |
| 10 | Hewlett-Packard Co has also teamed with Banyan Systems Inc on development of products to put Banyan 's Vines and enterprise network services up under HP-UX Unix on Precision Architecture machines , and provide Vines users with easier means of using Hewlett printers with a network adaptor to work with the new MIO interface . |
| 11 | I think , therefore we are extremely fortunate , that so many people of distinction and talent are willing to give up time to serve on the Executive of the N C V O to work with the honourary officers and the Director and her team , to ensure that N C V O maintain such a central role in watching over our interests and in promoting the concerns of the people of this country , that we are all so active about . |
| 12 | It is this bracing action which allows the legs to work during the forward swing . |
| 13 | Cleese enlisted Royal patronage to work on the top-selling environment number . |
| 14 | If schools feel that the National Curriculum does not get to the heart of the matter , that it is a relatively superficial means to more important ends and has important omissions , then is it not up to the schools to work through the National Curriculum or add to it to secure their goals ? |
| 15 | Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government . |
| 16 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |
| 17 | Jean worked in the same department as a Spotter and Darner since she joined the company in 1969 . |
| 18 | This necessitated their removal from the West Country branches while those units working in the Northern conurbations needed their wheel treads reprofiling more frequently , causing another temporary source of low availability for there was a shortage of replacement wheels . |
| 19 | William Keeling , a freelance journalist working for the Financial Times , was declared persona non grata by the government on July 1 . |
| 20 | Musa Anter is the fifth journalist working for the Kurdish newspaper Ozgur Gundem to be attacked since the newspaper started publication in May this year . |
| 21 | On Feb. 26 , 1990 , Silvia Dussan , a journalist working for the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , became the fourth journalist to be murdered by suspected right-wing paramilitaries in 1990 ( 12 were murdered in 1989 ) , who the same day were blamed for the murder of Diana Cardona Saldarriaga , the left-wing Patriotic Union ( Unión Patriótica — UP ) mayor of Apartado . |
| 22 | She also spent nine months working for the Sino-British Trade Council organising and accompanying Chinese commercial delegations visiting the UK . |
| 23 | Only an understanding that recognizes that an irresolvable tension works within the historical schema itself will be in a position to make its contradictory claims productive . |
| 24 | Cumbrian-born David works in the nuclear materials accounts and safeguards office at Sellafield . |
| 25 | Shakespeare is in no way diminished by a consideration of how tragic irony works in the final act of King Lear . |
| 26 | The cultivation of a distinctive ‘ voice ’ becomes the primary means whereby journalists working on the same material and increasingly reliant on the same basic sources seek to make a name for themselves . |
| 27 | His care for disabled children spans work at the orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry , Alder Hey Hospital , Liverpool , and through Riding for the Disabled . |
| 28 | Gregory works on the technical side , liaising with the sound and lighting people and drawing up set lists . |
| 29 | Spies working for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds found that Tanzanian traders routinely forge export papers to the UK , despite tough laws in their own country . |
| 30 | The fact that a wide number of manufacturers work to the same pattern means that the caterer who is topping up need not return to the same source for the top-up . |