Example sentences of "[noun pl] work [prep] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | It resulted in last year 's decision to close the European exploration headquarters in Glasgow with the transfer of key personnel to work from the main North Sea operational base in Aberdeen , a process which should be completed by the end of this year . |
| 4 | Floy remembered what Nuadu Airgetlam had said about the Robemaker taking sacrifice from the ordinary Irish people and putting the sons to work in the Dark Workshops and guessed that the people had simply lost heart . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going to Alès to work in the municipal library , ’ she replied . |
| 6 | It is this bracing action which allows the legs to work during the forward swing . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | This necessitated their removal from the West Country branches while those units working in the Northern conurbations needed their wheel treads reprofiling more frequently , causing another temporary source of low availability for there was a shortage of replacement wheels . |
| 9 | She also spent nine months working for the Sino-British Trade Council organising and accompanying Chinese commercial delegations visiting the UK . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His care for disabled children spans work at the orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry , Alder Hey Hospital , Liverpool , and through Riding for the Disabled . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | GUNMEN in Sierra Leone yesterday killed two nurses and two drivers working for the Red Cross , ICRC staff said . |
| 15 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yet because Siferwas worked outside the main centres of manuscript production , his influence was less than his achievement merited . |
| 18 | By October , BP will have 12 rigs working in the southern sector which will keep the Yarmouth base busy ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Top-down ( concept-driven ) parsers work in the opposite way . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ( c ) Divide the cost of the payroll between the current month and the next month 's costs , pro rata to the exact number of days worked in the respective months . |
| 24 | For Excess time payments — the amount is calculated by multiplying the number of days worked by the daily rate in the excess hours column . |
| 25 | For Excess travelling payments — the amount is calculated by multiplying the number of days worked by the daily rate in the expenses column . |
| 26 | The UK had no direct representation in Tripoli , although two British officials worked at the Italian embassy to represent British interests . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Similar work has been undertaken by regional organisations working in the legal field . |
| 29 | Team scores are compared to introduce some rivalry ( which usually means that participants work into the early hours later in the course ) , and critiques prepared on how their performance might be improved through reference to Grid styles . |
| 30 | 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 . |