Example sentences of "work for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , political differences in priorities and analyses exist , some women emphasis-ing the need to work for changes within the present housing system , while the priority of others is to construct alternative housing situations for women . |
| 2 | Its 200-page Environmental Management for Hotels : The Industry Guide to Best Practice , to be launched on Mar 21 , points out that energy conservation measures pay for themselves through cost saving and hence improve the business ' competitiveness ; that the pressure is on worldwide to demonstrate commitment to the sustainable development of tourism ; that staff will want to work for companies with good environmental practices ; that concern for the environment is shared by an increasing number of those involved in hotels ; and that a good track record in the field helps when developing new ventures or projecting a brand image . |
| 3 | But they seemed to work for researchers whose single-minded concern was to delineate the biochemistry , neurophysiology and cell biology of learning and memory . |
| 4 | However , it is not possible to require full-time staff to work for periods of duty which only cover the peak workloads . |
| 5 | Where there is no further land for settlement and for people to set themselves up as independent farmers or pastoralists , there is an added reason for a land-controlling class to emerge , firstly because land hunger tends to differentiate a peasantry and secondly there is no alternative for those without enough land but to work for others . |
| 6 | Under the eyes and ears of strangers , they would have to work for others rather than themselves . |
| 7 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 8 | She ruled out the idea of workfare , where claimants are forced to work for benefits or have them withdrawn , for all three million unemployed . |
| 9 | Women are more likely than men both not to be members of such schemes and to work for employers without them . |
| 10 | I did not become a Labour Member of Parliament or the Chairman of the Select Committee on Employment to work for policies that would lead to chronic mass unemployment . |
| 11 | She took part in a number of land occupations and later went to the capital to work for FECCAS there . |
| 12 | Naval construction work of this type will obviously lead to work for subcontractors . |
| 13 | She might have agreed with my friend Roger Hinks — who , after his unmerited disgrace over the too energetic cleaning of the Elgin Marbles , left the British Museum to work for years for the British Council — that the compensation for having acquaintances is that we can make game of them with our friends . |
| 14 | ‘ But think of the way pundits have to work for years and years to earn that money . |
| 15 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 16 | The Sinhalese were thought lazy because of their reluctance to work for planters , but the poor living conditions of estate labourers are ample explanation of the failure to recruit Sinhalese workers . |
| 17 | After the Newcastle upon Tyne hearing , Tracey — who now refuses to work for men — said : ‘ I hope this is a warning to men harassing girls at work . ’ |
| 18 | I could n't possibly allow my wife to work for men who ca n't keep their minds on the job and their hands to themselves . ’ |
| 19 | These changes and realizations , he credited to his experiences with LSD though conceded that it might not work for others in the same way . |
| 20 | This is not just a ‘ Paint Program ’ but a great tool for all and I am no professional ; although a knitter all my life , I do not work for others . |
| 21 | N.B. Languages and language learners are very idiosyncratic and what works for some may not work for others . |
| 22 | The word ‘ appears ’ is used advisedly because , although computers have been used to show that the equation does not work for values of n up to several thousand , no one has yet been able to prove for certain that there is no number n greater than 2 for which suitable values of x , y and z can not be slotted in to produce a valid equation . |
| 23 | … the postmodernist decision that the Author is dead , and subjective agency along with him , does not necessarily work for women and prematurely forecloses the question of identity for them . |
| 24 | A bent metal coat hanger may work for blockages close to the trap but , unlike plumber 's snakes and curtain wire , it will not go round bends . |
| 25 | It does work for quantifiers Every doe saw herself and there the interpretation of herself is like in logic . |
| 26 | I 'd read about this technique in my books , but it was only when I did the course that I realised that , although it would work for sparrowhawks and most other hunting birds , Dawn 's hunting did not depend on speed . |
| 27 | A Major or a Kinnock may work for decades in the hope of a few short years at the pinnacle of our political system . |
| 28 | Hence , considerable numbers of chefesses willing to come over here and work for peanuts just for the experience . |
| 29 | It is only in the sixth form , apparently , that pupils will work for examinations . |
| 30 | Do n't Work for Examinations |