Example sentences of "work [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although particulate traps can be made to work effectively for short periods under favourable conditions there is some way to go before they are reliable enough for the rough and tumble of ordinary operating conditions . |
| 2 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 3 | But to be effective they all have to learn to work together for the good of the school . |
| 4 | I had always hoped that the Buddhist Sangha , meaning the Community of Buddhist monks , might take a hand in the raising of morale , the deepening of the Buddhist emphasis on the Noble Eightfold Path , and in getting all sections of the nation to work together for peace and reconstruction . |
| 5 | In the winter of 1940–41 a number of public figures contacted by the left-of-centre owner of Picture Post , Edward Hulton , agreed to work together for greater efficiency , vigour and democracy in the prosecution of the war . |
| 6 | A media education programme therefore presupposes that a group of people will continue to work together for several years . |
| 7 | A group of 25 communicators , sociologists and people from the religious communities of North America and Asia have agreed on specific plans to work together for a more just global communication environment . |
| 8 | The local education authority , and participating employers , in planning to work together for the benefit of young people , will need , early on , to clarify their modus operandi . |
| 9 | The industry still has problems but I sense an increasing willingness for its component parts to work together for the common good . |
| 10 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | During a state visit to the UK on April 23-25 Walesa and UK Prime Minister John Major signed a joint declaration on Polish-UK relations , committing the two countries to work together for " a united , free Europe " . |
| 12 | Accompanied by two of his closest advisers , foermer Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Sanya Dharmasakdi , he appealed to them to work together for the sake of the people and the economy . |
| 13 | He did n't know if they would succeed , but it showed that , even here , there were people prepared to work together for the common good . |
| 14 | After all , we 're going to have to work together for the next week or so , so maybe it will help iron out the problems we keep having . ’ |
| 15 | We decided to try to get to know one another better , seeing as we 're forced to work together for the next week or so . ’ |
| 16 | AN international treaty which commits three very different communities to work together for the common good is to be signed in Middlesbrough next week . |
| 17 | And it is the exciting part of my job is to make these links work , start to build on them , and over our links in the city on the environmental and group with Tony Benn , that 's that 's doing a very good job , he is a platform for this , for each other , but I think there 's a lot more we can do locally erm within the city to build those links , and to work together for better answers for the city , and I hope that , on a practical level , one of the things that interested me was your grants team for local organisations , and I would like to think myself here today , we might look at the health authority , and try to join with them to make some erm practical contribution , particularly to those many carers , and groups of people who have problems , and we 're not all just professionals best able to put over during our normal nine-to-five or eight-to-eight days , we we can . |
| 18 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 19 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 20 | We will continue to work strenuously for a political agreement which is acceptable to all the parties involved in the talks which the Secretary of State has had during the past year with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland the Government of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 21 | The new-style MP would have to work harder for his constituents collectively as well as individually . |
| 22 | What guarantee do we have that , when we have to converge with , for example , the Greeks , Portuguese and Italians , the money transferred from our pockets to theirs will not merely impoverish us and give money to those who have not earned it while we have to work harder for less and pay higher interest rates ? |
| 23 | Although we had bucked the recessionary trend in the previous year , demand for carpets was even more depressed , and in a fiercely competitive market place , we all had to work harder for our share of the smaller ‘ cake ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | James Cropper who was at the centre of the efforts to establish a national antislavery body to work directly for emancipation declared roundly , ‘ We have no wild schemes of emancipation … we rather wish the thing may work its own way by the force of faith and the operation of circumstances . ’ |
| 26 | Five years ago , increasingly concerned about the environment , he decided to work directly for an environmental group . |
| 27 | There were no photocopying machines in those days so from the day the collection was shown the sketchers had to work frantically for two or three weeks afterwards from about eight to midnight drawing models for all the clients . |
| 28 | In this industry as , no doubt , in the rest of the manufacturing sector in my hon. Friend 's constituency , my hon. Friend has continued to work assiduously for his constituents . |
| 29 | Quelch resigned from the editorship in 1889 in order to work full-time for the New Unionism , but returned to the editor 's chair in 1891 and remained editor until his death . |
| 30 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |