Example sentences of "[noun pl] work [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gould found that he could put those skills to work via the Labour Party — ‘ If the metal shop at school was hell on earth , distributing leaflets and canvassing was heaven , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Frenzied attempts to work off the festive flab can lead to muscle and tendon injuries as people try to do too much too quickly . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going to Alès to work in the municipal library , ’ she replied . |
| 4 | It is this bracing action which allows the legs to work during the forward swing . |
| 5 | If schools feel that the National Curriculum does not get to the heart of the matter , that it is a relatively superficial means to more important ends and has important omissions , then is it not up to the schools to work through the National Curriculum or add to it to secure their goals ? |
| 6 | She also spent nine months working for the Sino-British Trade Council organising and accompanying Chinese commercial delegations visiting the UK . |
| 7 | The cultivation of a distinctive ‘ voice ’ becomes the primary means whereby journalists working on the same material and increasingly reliant on the same basic sources seek to make a name for themselves . |
| 8 | His care for disabled children spans work at the orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry , Alder Hey Hospital , Liverpool , and through Riding for the Disabled . |
| 9 | Spies working for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds found that Tanzanian traders routinely forge export papers to the UK , despite tough laws in their own country . |
| 10 | The fact that a wide number of manufacturers work to the same pattern means that the caterer who is topping up need not return to the same source for the top-up . |
| 11 | GUNMEN in Sierra Leone yesterday killed two nurses and two drivers working for the Red Cross , ICRC staff said . |
| 12 | In most of the non-militant fields , on the other hand , ballots were held , support for the strike was low , and the majority of miners worked through the entire period of the dispute . |
| 13 | By October , BP will have 12 rigs working in the southern sector which will keep the Yarmouth base busy ! |
| 14 | The resulting report was believed to have established that while Olivetti had not directly breached COCOM guidelines , the company 's technicians working in the Soviet Union may have " upgraded " equipment which the USA claimed was used in developing the Soviet supersonic fighter , the Yak-41 . |
| 15 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 16 | Top-down ( concept-driven ) parsers work in the opposite way . |
| 17 | Often the change in relationship that occurs as the parents work on the initial problem areas will generalize to other times of the day as the parent gains confidence and authority . |
| 18 | For Excess time payments — the amount is calculated by multiplying the number of days worked by the daily rate in the excess hours column . |
| 19 | For Excess travelling payments — the amount is calculated by multiplying the number of days worked by the daily rate in the expenses column . |
| 20 | The UK had no direct representation in Tripoli , although two British officials worked at the Italian embassy to represent British interests . |
| 21 | In Southampton seamen aboard the Olympic jumped the gun by walking off the liner on 9 June following a stoppage by coal bunkerers and trimmers working on the same ship some days earlier . |
| 22 | Similar work has been undertaken by regional organisations working in the legal field . |
| 23 | You have to spend years and years working off the initial residue of suspicion and diffidence before you 're even out of the red , let alone seeing any positive return for your efforts . |
| 24 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 25 | Fifteen years working for the same company . |
| 26 | Until his retirement three years ago , he had spent 38 years working in the photographic studio at the Victoria and Albert Museum . |
| 27 | There followed three years in a furniture factory and 10 years working in the architectural practice of Sheppard Robson , where he was involved in educational buildings , including the chapel of Churchill College , Cambridge . |
| 28 | After 20 years working in the Social Work Department it will be hard for Jack to leave a job that has been often exhausting and demanding , but never short of interest and challenge and which he has really enjoyed doing . |
| 29 | On leaving school , she spent a few years working in the British Transport Police . |
| 30 | They claimed to be grass cutters working at the nearby golf course . |