Example sentences of "[pron] works [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the administrative officer at the foundation , which works with the disabled , carried out a check , the discrepancies had come to light . |
| 2 | Under one company scheme — which works on the basis that the employee moves into an area of higher cost housing but into a similar property — the company pays half the additional mortgage cost for the first two years from the date of the move . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , one wonders to what extent higher education in the UK has played a role in creating not a military-industrial , but financial-bureaucratic complex , dominated by the City and the Treasury , which works to the long-term disadvantage of not simply manufacturing but all forms of ‘ producer ’ industries . |
| 4 | This is a partnership which works to the benefit of the patient . |
| 5 | ‘ The Labour Party must produce policies which convince voters that their own prosperity depends on a government which takes active responsibility to promote a strong economy and that their own security — and that of their families — is best advanced by a government which works for the welfare of the whole community . ’ |
| 6 | Survival International , which works for the rights of threatened tribal peoples , doubled its membership between the end of 1989 and the middle of 1990 . |
| 7 | We have an Ecumenical Group in the parish which works under the direction of Fr. |
| 8 | Finally , there is the tension in the design process between the sense of design as a transformative activity , a positing activity , transcendent of the givens of a problem ( in the sense of both breaking with context and with the form of the immediately perceived requirements — design as defining needs as well as solutions ) and design as a posited activity , that which works from the given which deals with what is real not with what is merely planned or speculated or imagined . |
| 9 | This apparently is the system which works in the family : ‘ He does favours for them and they do favours back ’ ( Pahl R.E. , 1984 , p. 340 ) . |
| 10 | tax is unfair , and that it is a bad tax which works against the poor , or is he content to support the Ebenezer Scrooge of the Department of the Environment ? |
| 11 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |
| 12 | I mean there 's one woman there working on a Three Eight Sixes twenty five megahertz and she works off the floppy all the time , she does n't use the hard drive . |
| 13 | We may , for example , think to ourselves that it would be very useful to ask a housewife if she works outside the house at all , and this sounds easy enough in our heads . |
| 14 | She works with the Asian Women Writers Collective . |
| 15 | In London , for example , she works with the Church of England 's radio studio and in Litchfield , courses are often run with the help of an Anglican training officer at a local radio outside broadcasting studio . |
| 16 | Though she works for the SSD , she is unusually placed in the health authority 's child health department . |
| 17 | May I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend both on her statement this afternoon and on all the ways in which she works for the British interest both in Europe and elsewhere in the world ? |
| 18 | She works at the National Irish Bank Cash Centre at 27 College Green . |
| 19 | She works at the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society at |
| 20 | and anyway she said that whoever the girl is , she works at the school in the day and she works at the erm |
| 21 | and anyway she said that whoever the girl is , she works at the school in the day and she works at the erm |
| 22 | Qua researcher , the academic may inhabit world III ; but qua teacher , he or she works in the realm of world II . |
| 23 | We can imagine the dilemma that an individual might face if , for example , she works in the personnel department of an organisation and has to give redundancy notices to members of the same trade union . |
| 24 | She works in the shop from 9 am until 5 pm , but as she awaits the infrequent customers she is not idle ; she cuts her cloth and does all her hand sewing . |
| 25 | From one of olympic fame to another who works in a typing ool. hazel cooke from Gloucester has been given the British empire medal — for her efforts in one of those very few recession beating jobs — she works in the insolvency section of the department of Trade and Industry . |
| 26 | when we down to London last week , we went in to see a friend of ours , she works in the sandwich bar |
| 27 | She works in the bookshop from time to time cos she 's only got the two has n't she , Robin and Stephan . |
| 28 | She works in the bakery . |
| 29 | Our present mayoress of Lewes , Mavis Askew , who 's done a sterling work as secretary of this new association , and that 's a very worthwhile project , and I believe she works in the library here . |
| 30 | She works alongside the class teacher , helping pupils who do n't speak English as their first language . |