Example sentences of "[noun] work [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | William Keeling , a freelance journalist working for the Financial Times , was declared persona non grata by the government on July 1 . |
| 5 | Cumbrian-born David works in the nuclear materials accounts and safeguards office at Sellafield . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yet because Siferwas worked outside the main centres of manuscript production , his influence was less than his achievement merited . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Women with more mechanical confidence will drive off , going sometimes for miles with tears pouring down their face , until they find a quiet lay-by to work through the final stages of their process . |
| 12 | Chaucer worked in the first Customs House , and Pepys saw the building of the first wet dock at Blackwall . |
| 13 | ( c ) Divide the cost of the payroll between the current month and the next month 's costs , pro rata to the exact number of days worked in the respective months . |
| 14 | Team scores are compared to introduce some rivalry ( which usually means that participants work into the early hours later in the course ) , and critiques prepared on how their performance might be improved through reference to Grid styles . |
| 15 | Contrary to reports in Paris last week , government investigators working at the central police laboratory here have ruled out the presence of the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex , which caused the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 16 | When you plan your programme , start with the social and personal free time for shopping or relaxation that the participants ought to have to encourage their brains to work during the meaty sessions . |
| 17 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 18 | The interactions of X-rays with living tissues were studied in very few laboratories , perhaps because physicists working with the new rays were not usually well informed about the biological problems which might be worth approaching , and biologists lacked the background and training in physics necessary to use X-rays in their work . |
| 19 | LAMP works with the tribal groups to help them revive their culture , languages and art forms , and to be aware of their rights . |
| 20 | Good presentation : dress standards of a person working at the highest levels of large corporations . |
| 21 | Some four months before the publication of the reported work , we produced a report which drew on a questionnaire survey of all police surgeons and sample surveys of investigating and custody officers working in the Metropolitan Police District ; the reported work focused on the custody records of just three stations in London . |
| 22 | As the media planner works through the available choices , a media schedule begins to evolve . |
| 23 | To mark Johnson Matthey 's 175th Anniversary in 1992 , a donation of £175,000 has recently been made to the Johnson Matthey Educational Trust which provides annual scholarships to children of persons working in the precious metals industry . |
| 24 | Or it was for the production crew working on the new children 's series The Borrowers . |
| 25 | The initial requirement is a tension square in your own choice of yarn and stitch pattern and the stitches and rows are used to set the Knitleader to work to the appropriate measurements . |
| 26 | In 1904–8 Malcolm worked in the military operations directorate of the War Office during the period of reform associated with R. B. Brett , second Viscount Esher [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | and the people worked in the big hotels |
| 28 | Irene worked from the simplest beginnings — a stretch , a curve , a step forwards or backwards — into tremendous variety of movement , delighting us with her physical and mental flexibility , and a sense of humour which needed no translation . |
| 29 | The head of the Soviet nuclear weapons programme , Viktor Mikhailov , had said in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda on Jan. 31 that slightly over 100,000 people worked in the nuclear weapons programme , including 10,000-15,000 who had secret information and 2,000-3,000 who had important information on " sophisticated technologies . " |
| 30 | Influencing the attitudes of staff working in the local careers advice service by ensuring that they are provided with up-to-date information of developments in nursing and someone from whom they can seek assistance . |