Example sentences of "[adv] work [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliphant , who was also knighted , went on to work on the atomic bomb , and subsequently returned to his native South Australia , where he became Governor . |
| 2 | With the help of the ESRC , the Yorkshire Dales National Park hope to transform countryside interpretation into an active and creative means of bringing landowners , policymakers and the public together to work on the best way to manage one of the great scenic treasures of northern England , yet maintain a healthy rural economy . |
| 3 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 4 | Andrew Eliel , editor of the guide , said the award had been launched because it was felt the best chef did not necessarily work in the best restaurant . |
| 5 | To achieve profound change , women must necessarily work within the existing structure . |
| 6 | But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less . |
| 7 | However close the match of management behaviour to the criteria described , performance management can only work in the broader context of managing change through learning ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | The ruler does n't only work in the horizontal direction . |
| 9 | The Met , Signals and Switchboard girls all worked on the same ground floor , next to each other , and at the end of the corridor were the girls in the Intelligence office , although they did n't mix with us so much . |
| 10 | At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics . |
| 11 | The 231 staff were re-employed indefinitely — at cost of £50,000 each — some doing less work for the same money . |
| 12 | Only work for the socialist revolution and you work for justice for everyone ; blacks , women , oppressed minorities everywhere . |
| 13 | Typical quotes were : ‘ They only work in the nuclear industry ’ . |
| 14 | The foursome , who all work at the special care baby unit at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough , will be attending the world 's first conference on neo-natal care , held in Washington DC . |
| 15 | He was also a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers , putting in much work as the first secretary of the West Indian Players ' Association . |
| 16 | For example , the chief in Figure 5.15 has control over the whole machine , whereas the draughtsman only works on the fine detail of a specific part . |
| 17 | If there is no local museum , there may be a professional archaeologist in the area , perhaps working for the local authority . |
| 18 | While it would be churlish to pass over the considerable tree planting effort already wrought in the central belt by the trust , the results of a three-year research project undertaken at the University of Edinburgh reveal little evidence that the needs and wants of local people have provided the vehicle for environmental change . |
| 19 | It is strong with public service workers whose relation to the generation of wealth is indirect , but it does not work with the young bank employee in Basildon with £15,000 a year and prospects . |
| 20 | Yet this argument will not work with the later forces which struck deep inland . |
| 21 | Health warnings on advertisements do not work for the same reason as health warnings on labels — they represent a token gesture which will have no material effect . |
| 22 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 23 | The Department has taken away the earnings-related supplement , and have got rid of death and maternity grant and income support for 16 and 17-year-olds who would not work on the Tory Government 's slave labour schemes . |
| 24 | The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters . |
| 25 | While we can see that horses are adept , sensitive and subtle communicators , human observers suffer from the disadvantage that our sense organs do not work in the same way as theirs . |
| 26 | The chemistry simply did not work in the same way . |
| 27 | If the government intervenes to ‘ peg ’ ( i.e. fix ) the exchange rate or even to prevent excessive fluctuations , the transmission mechanism will not work in the same way as we have described . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In order to preserve confidence in the appraisal and promotion system , the management role and to guard against accusations of favouritism , you will not normally work in the same reporting line as a relative or someone with whom you have a close personal relationship . |
| 30 | Care must be taken in interpreting Fig. 3 b because the CTD stations at the eastern end were not worked in the same location ( Fig. 1 ) , and some effect from the different topography might account for the eddy-like structure seen between 15–28°W . |