Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] work [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill senior , who will celebrate his 90th birthday on 25 August , has the unique place in the company 's history of being the last employee to continue working at the old Etruria factory . |
| 2 | One lawyer needs to work on the collective ideas and draft the documents . |
| 3 | Miss Armstrong said Labour wanted to work alongside the existing CTCs to bring them within the mainstream education system . |
| 4 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 5 | Nearly all of the changes made by the Conservatives during the 1980s with respect to wages , benefits , taxation and the treatment of wealth have worked in the same direction . |
| 6 | Of the 80 to 90 staff employed in Liverpool and Watford all the 55 directors and senior managers eligible for the relocation package continued to work in the new location and of these 55 , all but three moved to Congleton . |
| 7 | On a wider scale , the CAB has worked with the British Deaf Association to influence social policy and legislation for the benefit of the deaf . |
| 8 | In 1759 he was apprenticed to the civil engineer John Smeaton [ q.v. ] , for whom his father had worked on the new Eddystone lighthouse . |
| 9 | Edward 's father had worked in the diplomatic service in India and had amassed a fortune also , by irregular and secret membership of a Burmese rubber syndicate . |
| 10 | To make good the depredations that years of neglect have wrought on the Flavian amphitheatre , L40 billion ( £19.3 million ; $29 million ) funding has come from the Banco di Roma , newly created from the merger of three of Italy 's banks in preparation for the single European market . |
| 11 | Gilmore said , ‘ The army has worked with the civil authority to bring about a reduction in violence and will continue to do so as long as it is necessary . ’ |
| 12 | By May , meeting the TUC again , he found their suggestion ‘ very interesting and attractive ’ , but was apprehensive that any consequent investigation of whether the pensioner had worked in the previous week would smack of means-testing . |
| 13 | As part of our continuing review of quality systems , we are completing an evaluation of the way the new system has worked in the first year . |
| 14 | The Portadown player had to work in the first couple of frames but after that he stepped up a gear and dismissed the English player almost scornfully . |