Example sentences of "[noun] work on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleese enlisted Royal patronage to work on the top-selling environment number . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gregory works on the technical side , liaising with the sound and lighting people and drawing up set lists . |
| 5 | One of the most significant pioneer works on the British Flora was Cybele Britannica ( Watson , 1847–1859 ) ( Cannon , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | But it is damage wrought on the international competitiveness of American firms that really gives pause for thought . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Shannon worked on the same production . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Returning to the site to work on the current $38 million contract is project director Ray Hodgson and Charles Stewart , construction manager . |
| 11 | In Southampton seamen aboard the Olympic jumped the gun by walking off the liner on 9 June following a stoppage by coal bunkerers and trimmers working on the same ship some days earlier . |
| 12 | To some of the Wimpey International team working on the Arab Potash Expansion plant it is a trip down memory lane . |
| 13 | ILE will be key in ensuring applications work on the new hardware , as well as providing performance enhancements , according to Haines . |
| 14 | The social panic surrounding the emergence of the Teddy Boys formed part of a much wider structure of feeling in 1950s Britain that the social changes wrought on the postwar world were destroying the old ‘ British way of life ’ and the former civility of the British people , and the Teds were understood to be symptomatic of these social alterations . |
| 15 | In the Solomon Islands , BGS geologists worked on the final phase of a six year mapping and mineral-exploration programme . |
| 16 | Ruby 's forte was getting her own photograph in the newspapers as she ‘ arrived at the police station to advise officers working on the such-and-such case ’ ; she was a popular television chat show guest ; and she made a decent living from writing about psychometry . |
| 17 | Or it was for the production crew working on the new children 's series The Borrowers . |
| 18 | Modern EEGs work on the same principle as the sprung mirror galvanometer — i.e. they are capable of measuring very fast changes in potential difference between the electrodes , but are relatively insensitive to slow changes . |
| 19 | Class S works on the clear principle that the inputs to A2 must both be driven to the same potential regardless of the input voltage to AL , ie , a virtual earth . |
| 20 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 21 | The fertile combination of theory and practice was his own , however , and he stood at the head of a great group of people working on the new phenomena of electricity . |
| 22 | ‘ Real collaboration only happens when people working on the same scale want to share the results of their work or are willing to put money in a pool for an expensive project ’ said another official . |
| 23 | At a time ( 1944 ) when one 's acquaintances were casually saying ‘ I 'm off to the US to work on the atomic bomb ’ ( surely a gross breach of security ) I think Bernal was carefully insulated . |
| 24 | In 1842 Buddicom went to France to work on the Paris–Rouen railway , which opened in 1843 , and was subsequently extended to Le Havre . |
| 25 | Because rhetoric works on the uncertain relations between signifiers and signifieds , associative feminist psychologists can never produce complete , authoritative accounts of gendered subjectivity . |
| 26 | Macmillan worked on the American fear that a crisis in Anglo-American relations might contribute to a Conservative defeat at the next election . |
| 27 | Wooden platforms or stages were erected at different levels , so that men working on the various portions of the vehicle were facilitated in their task . |
| 28 | but the , but the proce , the , er the , the whole thing works on the same principal but now they 're doing it without , with less effort . |
| 29 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 30 | They had to be disposed of quickly to make room in the depôts for the new cars on order to work on the main line . |