Example sentences of "[noun] work [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going to Alès to work in the municipal library , ’ she replied . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is this bracing action which allows the legs to work during the forward swing . |
| 10 | Cleese enlisted Royal patronage to work on the top-selling environment number . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Jean worked in the same department as a Spotter and Darner since she joined the company in 1969 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She also spent nine months working for the Sino-British Trade Council organising and accompanying Chinese commercial delegations visiting the UK . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Shakespeare is in no way diminished by a consideration of how tragic irony works in the final act of King Lear . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His care for disabled children spans work at the orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry , Alder Hey Hospital , Liverpool , and through Riding for the Disabled . |
| 22 | Gregory works on the technical side , liaising with the sound and lighting people and drawing up set lists . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | GUNMEN in Sierra Leone yesterday killed two nurses and two drivers working for the Red Cross , ICRC staff said . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But it is damage wrought on the international competitiveness of American firms that really gives pause for thought . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |