Example sentences of "[noun] work in 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 | 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 . |
3 | Cumbrian-born David works in the nuclear materials accounts and safeguards office at Sellafield . |
4 | Chaucer worked in the first Customs House , and Pepys saw the building of the first wet dock at Blackwall . |
5 | ( 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . ] . |
9 | and the people worked in the big hotels |
10 | 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 . " |
11 | 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 . |
12 | He believes the government has generally down-graded people working in the public services sector over the last ten years , with university teachers having fared particularly badly as far as pay is concerned . |
13 | Teachers working in the three phases of education ( primary , middle , secondary ) seem to have experienced the review differently and have different attitudes towards it and towards SSE in general . |
14 | Differences amongst Oxfordshire teachers working in the different phases of education were only significant with regard to the efficiency and potency of SSE . |
15 | Members working in the reserved areas of audit , investment business and insolvency . |
16 | Those members working in the reserved areas of audit , investment business and insolvency . |
17 | Mr Hann worked in the financial services industry before becoming a lawyer . |
18 | From each you can get a good idea of what police work in the respective countries is really like . |
19 | By July 1914 it covered 2.3 m. workmen ( almost no women worked in the insured occupations ) of whom 63 per cent were skilled . |
20 | Perhaps influenced by the number of his contemporaries who showed neurasthenic tendencies , the Reverend Henry Newcome had founded a Society and formed a rule which had as its purpose the support of priests working in the growing parishes of newly industrialised cities . |
21 | In addition to trading , the women go to cities to demonstrate against domestic violence or to show solidarity with women working in the poor conditions in textiles factories . |
22 | Two-thirds of women working in the public services are members of a scheme , and joining is generally a condition of employment . |
23 | Out of D.S. Chambers and Michael Baxandall and some Italian scholars Robinson measures up Pound 's ideas about the right relation between artist and patron against what we know of how patronage in fact worked in the ducal fiefs of Renaissance Italy ; and when he deals with the closeness of Pound 's views on this and related matters to Ruskin 's ideas ( a theme common to all these essayists ) , Robinson dares to broach the too long forbidden topic of the poet 's antagonism — inertly received , so some would say , rather than considered — to Christian faith and Christian ethics . |
24 | Henri Fayol , a French management theorist working in the early decades of this century , listed the functions of management as follows : |
25 | SHEENA works in the Scientific Services Division of Water and Drainage at Marine Esplanade in Edinburgh . |