Example sentences of "to work [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the centuries where children were treated like Oliver Twist and worse ; where children were beaten , half-starved , and put to work for sixteen hours a day and more ; it is not surprising that horses were treated no better . |
| 2 | Since young managers can not expect to be rewarded for good short-term performances , there is less incentive to work for short-term results at the expense of longer-term benefits . |
| 3 | They are Chinese , family-run empires whose aged founders remain at the helm , creating inevitable speculation about succession squabbles and , more importantly , about whether such a style of management will continue to work for billion-dollar conglomerates with international ambitions . |
| 4 | In the light of the foregoing , psychiatry itself is increasingly being forced to admit that the firm categories of psychosis with which it has tried to work for many years are of limited value . |
| 5 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 6 | However , it tends to work for other companies rather than their own , although — not unnaturally — they make use of it . |
| 7 | ‘ They are characterized by low boredom thresholds and an inability to work for other people , ’ thought Sir John Hoskyns . |
| 8 | Alex Cockburn , later to work for Black Dwarf and 7 Days before decamping to the States and a 1970s career on Village Voice , provided a somewhat withdrawn interview with the New Statesman 's then right-wing socialist editor Paul Johnson . |
| 9 | I have set out our determination to work for that agreement and the principles on which the agreement will need to be based . |
| 10 | ‘ We recruit people who can identify with our high standards , all staff are recruited with the specific client in mind and continue to work for that client only . |
| 11 | The principle of the ‘ right to work ’ was extended to ‘ the right to work for all adults irrespective of age ’ ; but it applied only where the labour of older workers was needed in addition to the full employment of younger men with families ( Roberts 1954 ; Green 1963 ) . |
| 12 | He pledged to work for all sides in the constituency . |
| 13 | If this method also fails ( and do bear in mind that no technique can be guaranteed to work for all children ) then try response-cost or time-out ( chapter 7 ) . |
| 14 | Samuel Oldknow was generally regarded as a humane employer , but even he expected his apprentices to work for thirteen hours . |
| 15 | We had one free day each week — any one of our choice — and we could also elect to work for twelve days consecutively and then have two days off . |
| 16 | They 've got together to form a barter scheme , using a special currency which allows them to work for each other without REAL money changing hands . |
| 17 | Trade unions exist in order to increase the market power of labour as otherwise most workers would face competition from other workers offering to work for lower wages or worse conditions . |
| 18 | The less organised often resented the superior efficiency and greater discipline ( or docility ) , and the readiness to work for lower wages , of these peasants . |
| 19 | " Foreign " or " rat " labour , as it was called in the trade , consisted of unemployed compositors from other towns , who might be tempted to work for lower rates , or to move into a strike-bound area because they were " on the tramp " and desperate for jobs . |
| 20 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 21 | She had n't been to work for two nights . |
| 22 | You do n't mention him , except to say that he was a biologist and that he went to England to work for two years at the chemical weapons experimental establishment at Porton Down . |
| 23 | I went back to work for two days a week in December when Isha was six months old . |
| 24 | Yes , yes , he 's organised it Chris has had to go to work for two days this week . |
| 25 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 26 | Here your training intensity is such that you are pushed to work for one minute , let alone the 20 required for aerobic training ! |
| 27 | Later in India and Africa , entire villages were rounded up and forced to work for minimal wages set by foreign officials . |
| 28 | Maybe he thinks being a Sergeant in the Engineers makes him too good to work for ordinary folk . |
| 29 | Its unique contribution to the community should be recognized — which incidentally would help to raise its status — so that no mother of under-fives should have to go out to work for financial reasons . |
| 30 | ‘ He said I did n't need to work for financial reasons and how could I leave the children ? |