Example sentences of "of work [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Through their power of patronage , the King and the Lords were able to exert " influence " over the composition of the lower chamber so oiling the relations between the King and the representatives of the people and cementing the elements of the constitution into some kind of working whole .
2 It will be equipped with three ship-to-shore gantry cranes , three transtainers for shoreside movements and 400 metres of working quay .
3 The choice of working fluid , unless dictated by the available standard equipment , is usually influenced by two considerations , the achievement of the desired values of the governing non-dimensional parameters and the performance of flow transducers .
4 Er , one thing I think we highlighted after the meeting with the they 're sort of working awareness of the setup in Lincolnshire , if you look at the er , structure of the er , commission , one from personnel , chief executives They did seem to have er , very little knowledge of a rural shire county .
5 Just as the 1972 Conference on the Environment and Development in Stockholm is said to have ushered in a new era of international cooperation ( at the very least , it led to the creation of the United National Environment Programme ) , so its 1992 successor could just provide all world leaders with some kind of working map for the future .
6 If our society began to move towards more flexible cycles , in which different communities and groups would adopt different patterns , we would create more employment , as employers would have to cover a shifting pattern of working activity .
7 Central to Thorngumbald was the blacksmith 's shop , hub of working activity for a large area , now rebuilt as a modern garage but still owned by the fourth generation of Willinghams .
8 We find other and even more important examples of working personification in the logic of individual political rights against the state .
9 These various examples of working personification of the community fit together as partners in a general system of thought .
10 Almost wid.way between London and Paris , a mixture of working port and fashionable resort , Dieppe , with its cafes , casino , beach and racecourse was , in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , the chief summer visiting place for sophisticated French and British artists .
11 Barbara Jackson of Kodak UK was very pleased with the way the efforts to bring photography to the classroom had gone , and is very keen to keep this sort of working dialogue with schools going .
12 He arrived in a top hat and morning coat , already a somewhat archaic form of working dress , and said to the waiting cameraman : ‘ Photograph me now , gentlemen , it may be the last time you will see me ’ .
13 Thanks in part to the inventive energy of Thomas Cromwell and the long , tireless service of the Cecils , there developed some sort of working tradition ; but there was little of the bureaucratic foundation which alone could provide continuity and organization .
14 How she would handle the top job when so many others had years of working experience in the service was a different matter .
15 It is , therefore , possible that in the presence of an autonomic neuropathy of long duration the number of working sweat glands decreases and their distribution becomes irregular .
16 We pay the bill and tumble out into a street which shows signs of working city life .
17 ‘ That 's the beauty of working freelance , ’ Lorton said .
18 The main building is laid out as a four-floor room-by-room illustration of working family life — from the prim living room , to the children 's bedroom and maids ' cramped attic costume workshop and living quarters .
19 The main building is laid out as a four-floor room-by-room illustration of working family life — from the prim living room , to the children 's bedroom and maids ' cramped attic costume workshop and living quarters .
20 He is by no means a total social isolate for there are still occasions when work is carried out in groups of two or three , but contact is more desultory and the closely knit relationships developed out of lengthy periods of working side by side have become somewhat attenuated .
21 The central core of working information is no longer the drawing but the computer data base .
22 The Queen 's Bench and Chancery Divisions are no longer distinct courts , though , as a matter of working convenience , matters which involve mainly the Common Law come before the Queen 's Bench ; those which largely involve Equity come before the Chancery Division .
23 Emphasis will be placed on the initiation and sustaining of working relation skills throughout the module and interpersonal skills used will be assessed .
24 Games can be non-threatening be fun to play indicate clearly to the children that a different kind of thought process is going to be required of them in the drama session introduce collaborative ways of working focus and channel energies which might otherwise become distracting create useful opportunities for the teacher to assess the mood and interests of the class .
25 The Old Fire Station on George Street now houses a permanent exhibition of working science aimed at schoolchildren .
26 In 1955 Balcon sold the studios to the BBC to resolve a longstanding debt problem , moving his production unit on to MGM and then ABPC , but failing to find at either place the sort of working context that would re-energize his production programme .
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