Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was classified as high security , and there were more guards than engineers working in the compound . |
| 2 | Man will voluntarily integrate his own goals with those of the organization if management works on the assumption not that people dislike work , prefer being directed rather than taking the initiative and respond only to material rewards or threats and sanctions ; but that they have needs for autonomy and independence which must be satisfied through structures of authority that allow self-motivation and self-control . |
| 3 | This is because majors work on the priority system . |
| 4 | I was I was er er we we were n't butties because butties worked on the face , you see ? |
| 5 | It seems a miracle that Exekias can make black-figure carry all he puts into it , while sculptors working on the decoration of buildings sidestep the conventions they respect in their independent statues . |
| 6 | Later they walked in the garden together , while Basil worked at the portrait . |
| 7 | The couple 's love even endured three years of separation as Courtney worked in the Gulf to raise the money to buy their home in Cricklewood , north London . |
| 8 | WHEN engineers working for the Tokyo gas company , get a telephone call in the middle of the night , the chances are that a computer will be at the other end . |
| 9 | It emphasized that many people considered that direct contact between boards and course teams was ‘ one of the most valued aspects of the Council 's operation ’ , and the Council concurred with this view as long as boards worked within the policies laid down by the committees . |
| 10 | That was fine when manpower was cheap and farming was labour intensive , when families worked in the fields man and boy . |
| 11 | This new road will be constructed as advance works for the Musselburgh Bypass project and will be funded from savings in costs resulting from the closure of Mucklets Road . |
| 12 | As Gabriel worked on the top of the ricks , he suddenly remembered that , eight months before , he had been fighting against fire in the same place as desperately as he was fighting against water now — and for love of the same woman , who did not love him . |
| 13 | Canadian cinema will be featured at the Glasgow Film Theatre throughout the period of Mayfest , as will works from the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival . |
| 14 | The cabaret songs recorded here were not actually performed when Schoenberg worked at the Uberbrettl Theatre in Berlin in 1901 , and they are as much in the tradition of Hugo Wolf 's comic settings of Mörike and Goethe as of more popular music . |
| 15 | No more did they do so in the Black Country 's nail-making trade , where the family 's output depended upon women as well as men working at the anvil . |
| 16 | As students work through the projects in the Student 's Book , they carry out a number of tasks and activities which form the basis for similar projects of their own . |