Example sentences of "[noun pl] work [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Fifteen years working for the same company . |
5 | Another way of measuring external reliability is to compare the scores obtained by different testers working with the same group of children . |
6 | Clearly there is so much ground to be covered , particularly on the engineering and operational sides , when a large transport aircraft is involved that you will need several investigators working at the same time . |
7 | Problems may arise in respect of expatriates working in the same location on longer-term postings or even local company employees who are dissatisfied with their rates of pay in comparison with salaries and/or bonuses earned by fixed-term contract workers . |
8 | Ruby 's forte was getting her own photograph in the newspapers as she ‘ arrived at the police station to advise officers working on the such-and-such case ’ ; she was a popular television chat show guest ; and she made a decent living from writing about psychometry . |
9 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
10 | Modern EEGs work on the same principle as the sprung mirror galvanometer — i.e. they are capable of measuring very fast changes in potential difference between the electrodes , but are relatively insensitive to slow changes . |
11 | It was felt that married servants — especially if both servants worked in the same house — tended to be more stable , and have a stabilising effect on the younger , unattached members of staff . " |
12 | JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ? |
13 | As is often the case in the creation of new ideas , there were many scholars working along the same lines as these theorists , particularly those trying to analyze the experience of the British Empire at the end of the nineteenth century , pre-eminently the ‘ social-liberal ’ J.A . |
14 | Even married couples working for the same firm can be fired if the boss can prove that their relationship makes their employment impractical , or that it is against company policy . |
15 | In this calculation , I assumed that if two women worked in the same office and had the same surname ( provided it was not a very common one ) but different Christian names , then they were sisters . |
16 | Rather , it consists of a culture whereby discoveries are submitted to peer discussion and to verification or falsification by others working in the same field . |
17 | After three months they would be entitled to the statutory minimum wage in Germany , but this would still be less than the wages taken home by Germans working on the same site . |
18 | It is important to remember that a very large percentage of jobs never come on to the open market but are filled from within the firm , by people applying ‘ on spec. ’ or by people who hear about a vacancy from friends or colleagues working in the same field . |