Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] work [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Past the farm where the short-term prisoners work under the guard of rifles and dogs , past the fields where beet and potato sprout from the long-used soil . |
| 2 | He was born at a time when the great majority of musicians were employed by patrons — wealthy aristocrats , monarchs , or prelates — or as civic musicians working for a town council . |
| 3 | Lithographic duplicators work on the principle that oil and water do not mix . |
| 4 | hopefully to a large degree there will be money coming inwards to the Local Authority , the Local Highway Authority in the future , the compliments of the inspection of public utilities works on the acceptance thereof , er so there will be sort of additional income to help erm finance any additional starting resources and required to , erm |
| 5 | Pummel flabby thighs working from the knees towards your hips . |
| 6 | So , with none of his rearguard involved internationally , Howard Wilkinson , who has constantly highlighted the shortcomings of a congested fixture list , had the luxury of 11 free days to work on the problem . |
| 7 | The inadequacies of this egalitarian approach lead some lesbian psychologists to work outside the Division of the Psychology of Women and the AWP , in feminist and lesbian feminist organizations which grant sexuality more significance . |
| 8 | The expectations of chartered accountants working in a location such as this have certainly changed since then if Ms Harris ' ideas are to be given any credence — I am sure Charles Bullworthy will remember the fifties well . |
| 9 | Right across the village muddy figures worked on every rooftop , thrashing walls with brooms in rhythmic sweeps , projecting showers of spray high and wide all around them . |
| 10 | For the near future public relations work in the consumer field is apt to continue to be the major area for in-take of new employees . |
| 11 | The other Nobel prizes for 1991 were announced by the relevant Swedish academies between Oct. 3 and Oct. 16 : ( i ) Literature — Nadine Gordimer , the South African novelist whose " magnificent epic writing " had as its central theme the consequences of apartheid ; ( ii ) Medicine — Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann , German scientists working on the function of single ion channels in cell physiology ; ( iii ) Economics — Ronald Coase , the veteran UK-born member of the Chicago school and theorist of transaction costs and property rights , relevant to how buyers and sellers are brought together in the free market ; ( iv ) Physics — Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , the French scientist , for his work on applying the study of order and behavioural similarities in molecules to a range of complex materials ; and ( v ) Chemistry — Richard R. Ernst , the Swiss researcher , for contributions to high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) spectroscopy . |
| 12 | Some Latin American social scientists working on the topic have suggested a two-stage process , in which the penetration of capitalism initially leads to an increase in wage-earning workers , but this is followed by a stage of the intensification of capitalism , characterised by deproletarianisation and semi-proletarianisation ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) . |
| 13 | Now he was ready to see daily miracles wrought by the relics of St Stephen , recently discovered and brought to Africa , and to make use of them in his pastoral work among his congregations . |
| 14 | John Habeshaw , Ph.D. , M.D. , one of the British scientists working on the AIDS virus and one of the country 's leading authorities on malignant lymphoma , was throwing up in the cloakroom . |
| 15 | They were free spirits working for the gods ; the pharaoh gave them food , clothing and shelter . |
| 16 | Before the Secretary of State sets sail to be Governor of Hong Kong , will he exercise his subtle and calming qualities on behalf of the 5,500 British expatriates , many of whom are Scots engineers working in the oil industry in Libya ? |
| 17 | Complicated political formulas work for a while and then fall apart . |
| 18 | But partly because of the diversity of the French companies involved , and partly because of the distances separating the various European companies working for the CNES and ESA programmes , ‘ catching up with the Americans ’ has been an important unifying goal . |
| 19 | A payment ( equivalent to time and a half on normal workdays and double time on Sundays and public holidays ) in respect of any additional hours worked as a result of extensions to licensing hours |
| 20 | I am pleased to be able to tell my hon. Friend that the new structures and management priorities of the health service led the health authority to appoint a new ophthalmology consultant last week to provide extra sessions to work through the waiting list . |
| 21 | Hence the vocabulary of the system is effectively unlimited , unlike models working at the word level where the size of the model increases very rapidly with the size of the vocabulary . |
| 22 | Mr Entwistle spent his early years working in the Coventry laboratories , mainly on viscose development . |
| 23 | Outside facilitators worked with the committee to look at current staff development issues in the University and to take the first steps in producing a new strategy paper on Staff Development Policy for the University . |
| 24 | Imagine civil servants working in a capital city and trying to make all the decisions required for running a large country . |
| 25 | The Cabinet , for its part , had to put policy before Parliament , and had to supervise the implementation of legislation through the control and coordination of the civil servants working in the departments of state . |
| 26 | While I am not denigrating individual interpreters working for the immigration service or the Home Office , many of whom work extremely hard and do a very good job , it is essential that those seeking political asylum have an absolute guarantee that the person doing the translating is independent , is fully aware of the importance of an asylum application , is fully familiar with the cases and is somebody whose background has been inquired into to make sure that he or she is not in a position to infiltrate the immigration service and pass information back to the regime from which the individual may be fleeing , thus putting their family at risk . |
| 27 | In 1851 the Ridge family monopolised the manufacture of brace bits and gimlets in the south Yorkshire village of Ecclesfield , with nine separate households working at the craft . |
| 28 | using tiny circles work down the sides of the nose ( see Fig. 15 ) . |
| 29 | Editor , — The widely held view that there is an overprovision of acute medical services in inner London — 9 is not shared by orthopaedic surgeons working in the capital , who are unable to provide a satisfactory service for their patients with the resources currently at their disposal . |
| 30 | Soviet and US experts , whose presence was thought to give momentum to the talks , were on hand to offer " technical " advice on the practicalities of a ceasefire [ for March agreement by the protagonists ' principal backers to work for a settlement to the civil war see p. 37365 ] . |