Example sentences of "[noun sg] work [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked about how the two parts of the exhibition about fifty autograph works in the first part followed by a section on debatable works by pupils and followers were connected , Dr Brown agreed that the two parts were , in fact , rather distinct . |
| 2 | In need of a cheap , large labour force after the economic and social havoc wrought by the Second World War , migration from the Caribbean and other ‘ New Commonwealth , countries was encouraged by both commercial and public sector British employers . |
| 3 | British Architectural Library ( London ) has more than 400 metres of shelving of manuscript works from the seventeenth century onwards , on all manner of architectural topics ; there are more than 250,000 drawings and 50,000 photographs on architecture and topography . |
| 4 | This is hot enough for fusion to occur but so far they have been unable to confine the hot plasma long enough and at high enough densities to generate more energy from fusion than is used to keep the machine working in the first place . |
| 5 | BELOW : Iron Mill stood immediately below Longfords , and was an iron works during the 17th century . |
| 6 | His account of how government worked in the ninth century is plausible , not least because it squares with what we can infer from Dhuoda and Nithard , despite the differences in their aims and standpoints . |
| 7 | Professor Miller proceeded to the changes in psychology wrought by the Second World War , which was interesting . |