Example sentences of "[noun sg] have work [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1759 he was apprenticed to the civil engineer John Smeaton [ q.v. ] , for whom his father had worked on the new Eddystone lighthouse . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |