Example sentences of "[noun pl] work in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm going to Alès to work in the municipal library , ’ she replied . |
| 2 | By October , BP will have 12 rigs working in the southern sector which will keep the Yarmouth base busy ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Top-down ( concept-driven ) parsers work in the opposite way . |
| 5 | Similar work has been undertaken by regional organisations working in the legal field . |
| 6 | Until his retirement three years ago , he had spent 38 years working in the photographic studio at the Victoria and Albert Museum . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On leaving school , she spent a few years working in the British Transport Police . |
| 10 | Most often known to us as witch doctors or medicine men , it has now been realised that their accumulated knowledge and experience of which natural substances work in the rapid healing of wounds , or alleviation of pain , is a major resource which modern science can use to good effect in producing ‘ new ’ drugs . |
| 11 | The Gulf crisis brought to public attention the very large numbers of non-nationals working in the Middle East states , but there are also large non-national populations in the member states of the European Community and there is likely to be a large movement of people out of the USSR and the Eastern European countries into Western Europe now that the borders are relatively open . |
| 12 | To prevent such a sequence of events the church must seek continual spiritual renewal ; deploy a high proportion of its members to work in the external constituency ; in McGavran 's terminology , to turn them into class two leaders and workers , i.e. ‘ members whose energies are primarily directed to serving and evangelising non-Christians in their ministry area in an effort to bring them into the Body of Christ ’ , and to establish new groups and plant new congregations . |
| 13 | Now Scotland 's middle class feels excluded , especially those like teachers and doctors working in the public sector . ’ |
| 14 | Further input was secured from consultant psychiatrists working in the new community units . |
| 15 | Postal questionnaires were then used to seek the views of local general practitioners and the child psychiatrists working in the Northern region . |
| 16 | With this in mind , the new findings of scholars working in the Marxist tradition to show the importance of putting-out systems of production such as the Verlag in proto-industrialization , take on a new significance ( e.g. Kriedte et al. |
| 17 | The hours worked in the early cotton mills varied . |
| 18 | In rural areas , employment opportunities are almost nil , while in the towns the numbers working in the informal sector have increased markedly . |
| 19 | We 'd like them to come along and see the horses working in the traditional way at the same time they can look at the Autumn colours . |
| 20 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 21 | Statistical techniques for manpower planning : Development of statistical methods for use in manpower planning ; Application of these methods to a large database consisting of career histories of employees working in the public sector . |