Example sentences of "work in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This reform would work in the following way .
2 Recruitment in food service starts at the bottom with entry as a snack steward who will work in the self-service areas and assist in the smooth running of the lido deck service .
3 Mains and his men have chased after the mobile forwards and only time will tell whether this philosophy of fast-footed men will work in the rough and tumble of test rugby .
4 Nonetheless , I keep my game in shape and hopefully it will work in the All-Ireland finals , ’ added Colm .
5 The 18-track set charts the retiring Coventry boy 's progress from The Specials ' 1979 hit , ‘ Gangsters ’ , through Fun Boy Three 's collaboration with Bananarama , ‘ It Ai n't What You Do ’ , to solo work in the '90s .
6 I know about dogs — they do n't work in the Antarctic .
7 The trick will be to turn his good intentions into policies that will work in the real world .
8 One deaf person who did much sterling work in the front-line city of Southampton was Herbert C. Street , an A.R.P Warden and sergeant in the Home Guard .
9 It is , however , an approach that failed in the 1970s , and one that will not work in the 1990s .
10 It 's a curious thing , having a radio programme on television , but this Radio 4 joint production with BBC1 has shown how neatly it can work in the right hands .
11 Andrew Eliel , editor of the guide , said the award had been launched because it was felt the best chef did not necessarily work in the best restaurant .
12 Grieco 's work is based on a detailed case study in the Northamptonshire steel town of Corby , and smaller studies of women in the fisheries industry in Aberdeen and of people migrating from the East End of London to live and work in the new town of Basildon , on London 's outer fringes .
13 I 'll work in the timid heart of the maid
14 we can work in the three
15 I do n't work in the photographic laboratory .
16 We do n't all work in the same way to spread the good News .
17 Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church .
18 Tried and tested application programming interfaces , data structures , formats and protocols , will usually work in the same way even if they are encapsulated within other architectures .
19 It could work in the same way as the present ‘ attendance allowance ’ , a payment made to severely disabled people which they can then choose how to spend on their care .
20 While we can see that horses are adept , sensitive and subtle communicators , human observers suffer from the disadvantage that our sense organs do not work in the same way as theirs .
21 The inner-city indicators were based largely on territorial assumptions , for example that people might have close relatives living in the same street or the next street , and that people would work in the same places as some of their close neighbours ( L. Milroy 1987 : 141–2 ) .
22 As has been pointed out already , the use of a standard interface means that packages will all work in the same basic way .
23 Do you always work in the same media ?
24 The chemistry simply did not work in the same way .
25 If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction .
26 In order to preserve confidence in the appraisal and promotion system , the management role and to guard against accusations of favouritism , you will not normally work in the same reporting line as a relative or someone with whom you have a close personal relationship .
27 If the government intervenes to ‘ peg ’ ( i.e. fix ) the exchange rate or even to prevent excessive fluctuations , the transmission mechanism will not work in the same way as we have described .
28 It would work in the same way as the gas and electricity national grids .
29 Milk distribution would work in the same way in that as long as the milk is put into the system at one point , it does not matter where it is taken out . ’
30 The ruler does n't only work in the horizontal direction .
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