Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter we examine a number of different forms of short-term contract working in a number of different sectors . |
| 2 | Mandy had shaved several years from her life , and put that she 'd spent her last few summers working as a waitress at the Banff Springs Hotel . |
| 3 | He was born at a time when the great majority of musicians were employed by patrons — wealthy aristocrats , monarchs , or prelates — or as civic musicians working for a town council . |
| 4 | In 1323–5 Ramsey worked as a mason at St Stephen 's chapel in Westminster Palace , but seems to have been identical with the Master William de Ramesseye in charge of works at Norwich Cathedral in 1326–31 . |
| 5 | He 's spent 30 years working as a teacher , but always wanted to earn a living as a painter . |
| 6 | Her father , Alic Denning worked as a docker for fifty one years . |
| 7 | This reaction works with a variety of alkanes , including propane , cyclohexane and cyclopropane . |
| 8 | The expectations of chartered accountants working in a location such as this have certainly changed since then if Ms Harris ' ideas are to be given any credence — I am sure Charles Bullworthy will remember the fifties well . |
| 9 | Some people work for a firm that goes bankrupt ; some people invest early in Rank Xerox . |
| 10 | This woman works at a Garrimpo and has also been exposed to mercury vapour . |
| 11 | Today a player is simply a pawn , part of a highly organised unit working to a manager 's predetermined set of tactics . |
| 12 | The French guy worked as a chauffeur in Paris and his girlfriend did anything while they saved to travel — America , Africa and now here . |
| 13 | A PAPER published by Lothian Regional Council has recommended a decentralised system of local government with some employees working from a network of council shops . |
| 14 | In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company . |
| 15 | Complicated political formulas work for a while and then fall apart . |
| 16 | A payment ( equivalent to time and a half on normal workdays and double time on Sundays and public holidays ) in respect of any additional hours worked as a result of extensions to licensing hours |
| 17 | Once the usual carpetbaggers , liars and opportunists had been discounted , there was a heart-lifting common thread , a real desire to work for a paper promising to lift them out of the cynicism and virtual despair of the current newspaper scene . |
| 18 | The ESP series covering Engineering , Business and Travel and Tourism takes a different approach and records real discussions between real people working in a factory , the travel industry and an office . |
| 19 | Imagine civil servants working in a capital city and trying to make all the decisions required for running a large country . |
| 20 | Soviet and US experts , whose presence was thought to give momentum to the talks , were on hand to offer " technical " advice on the practicalities of a ceasefire [ for March agreement by the protagonists ' principal backers to work for a settlement to the civil war see p. 37365 ] . |
| 21 | ‘ For take-off and landing , each propeller works like a helicopter rotor , pulling the plane into the sky or letting it down on the helipad . |
| 22 | Kukkay Sarn and Meera Patel from London — 24-year-old Kukkay works as a buyer for British Airways and her friend Meera is a 22-year-old student at the London College of Fashion . |
| 23 | From 1910 to 1921 Machen worked as a reporter for the Evening News . |
| 24 | The characteristic townsmen worked at a craft to meet purely local demands . |
| 25 | After three years working as a photographer 's assistant , Jason decided to get out of the ‘ rat race ’ and joined ecologically-minded art group Reactivart . |
| 26 | The Brazilian pastor Carlos Dreher has been awarded the 1991 Wilhelm-Sebastian-Schmerl prize for his outstanding contribution to Protestant media work in a German speaking context . |
| 27 | Set in contemporary London and obviously written before the Somalian famine hit the news , the book is essentially the story of Rachel , an expatriate South African liberal with three children ; Hassan , a Somalian Brit working as a refugee adviser ; and Anab and Haleemo , two refugees from the Somalian civil war . |
| 28 | Mm , mm , we might even manage , I mean , we , we might talk later on about this , but , perhaps you know have two or three people working on a campaign if , if , if , if it was felt to be better that way , mm , mm . |
| 29 | Acquiring a good interview technique is as important for people employing one person to work directly for them as it is for those who will be taking on large numbers to work for a company . |
| 30 | These agents work on a commission basis and special rates and discounts are negotiated with the hotel groups and will depend on several factors : |