Example sentences of "to work [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 For example , a worker who is unaware that exposure to high levels of benzene , as happens in some chemical plants , might cause cancer will be willing to work for a lower wage than she would if this information were widely available .
2 It is a sense of revulsion at injustice and poverty and denied opportunity , whether at home or abroad , which impels people to work for a better world , to become , as in our case , democratic socialists .
3 Revulsion at injustice , poverty and denied opportunity , he says , impels people to work for a better world .
4 The two meetings on which I have reported to the House have shown our determination to work for a safer world and a new partnership with Russia in the cause of peace .
5 Many firms offer training two years in advance but they tend to be the larger organisations and if you wish to work for a smaller firm or , for example , a local authority , you often need to apply nearer the time .
6 They will continue to work for a stronger , more effective United Nations .
7 And the system of Standing Cabinet Committees , which was developed in the War Cabinet days , now makes it possible to work with a smaller Cabinet , on the lines of your War Cabinet and ‘ Caretaker ’ Cabinet , 49 without impairing the principle of collective responsibility .
8 Specifically , this means provided they are prepared to work with a smaller ratio of balances/ liabilities .
9 15.37 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 6 should be encouraged to work in a wider range of situations in which their individual contributions are given greater emphasis .
10 Such a fluid working arrangement can not be expected to work in a larger industrial firm .
11 He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says .
12 She set him to work on a further area of deep neglect .
13 You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern .
14 For some specialised yarns , say those with knops , or the hairy yarns , you will probably need to work at a looser tension for the cables to show but this is not to their disadvantage since the cables , loosely worked , frequently add to the richness of the finished look .
15 This approach does however force the wireframe modeller to work at a higher level of understanding than exists in most present systems .
16 It has so far only managed to produce a sample P5 running at 40MHz — just two thirds of the 66MHz speed Intel intended — and can not get the thing to work at a faster rate .
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