Example sentences of "works the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | different hand set works the black stripe . |
| 2 | This is a development of flash cards which works the visual memory even harder , because the pupil has to carry an image of strings of words . |
| 3 | Birmingham RC&W Co Class 104 unit No 104325 , in the bizarre ScotRail ‘ mexican bean ’ livery , works the 09.55 Oban to Crianlarich service near Tyndrum Lower on 29 September 1987 . |
| 4 | It should be said , however , that the press behind the neck exercise works the upper trapezius quite heavily , so if the trapezius muscles are already well developed the exercise should be avoided . |
| 5 | you know , just ask them if there 's any more money in it if she works the long hours . |
| 6 | The Sydney made its first flight on July 18 , 1930 painted silver overall , but on emerging from Blackburn 's works the following October N241 was in battleship grey finish . |
| 7 | If during that week he works the following number of hours , how much should his take home pay be ? |
| 8 | The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line . |
| 9 | It also works the other way around . |
| 10 | It works the other way around too ; hypnotic therapy can not have any adverse effect upon whatever form of medical assistance you might be receiving . |
| 11 | The capacitive system works the other way around in that the stylus is used to detect a series of coded pulses fed into a two-layer grid . |
| 12 | The capacitive system works the other way around in that the stylus is used to detect a series of coded pulses fed into a two-layer grid . |
| 13 | It only works the other way round . |
| 14 | And of course it mainly works the other way , does n't it — I mean Hilda hating Viola . ’ |
| 15 | As we have already observed ( see ( 35 ) ) , the verb see , in its ordinary uses , can not be expected to occur with an adverbal adjective , but this does appear to be the interpretation needed for ( 41 ) which may be considered substandard but is apparently possible in current British English : ( 41 ) even if the scheme does fail , I 'll see you comfortable Much more often , the idiomaticity works the other way , so that a set of lexical items that could fit the structure of ( 21 ) , with appropriate values , seem to give unacceptable sentences , as in ( 42 ) : ( 42 ) Eva played her opponent exhausted Wendy wiped the floor moist |
| 16 | Leeds chairman Leslie Silver Wwednesday defended the controversial decision to sell Batty and said : ‘ No manager wants to sell his best players but Howard Wilkinson is practical enough to realise that we ca n't just buy other people 's best players — it works the other way round sometimes . |
| 17 | Warm-up man Daley Pike works the enthusiastic crowd , carefully testing the good humour of various individuals . |
| 18 | He works the same trick in Pygmalion . |
| 19 | The proposed system works the same way as summer E grades , with a Roman numeral ( I-X etc ) encompassing the overall difficulty of the route including seriousness , protection , sustainedness and length , and an Arabic numeral ( 1–10 etc ) to reflect the technical difficulty of the hardest pitch or crux sequence . |
| 20 | And , because all this capability was part of the Macintosh operating system it was available to any software developer so almost every package that appears for the system works the same way . |
| 21 | But it works the same way as ordinary language . |
| 22 | A woman who worked 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. said , " My husband works the same hours . |
| 23 | Endesha Ida Mae Holland , the author of this veiled autobiography , is described in the programme as a popular lecturer and ‘ story-teller ’ : she works the same seam as Maya Angelou , Toni Morrison and Alice Walker ( whose spirit she fulsomely invokes , and whose book The Color Purple she implicitly recalls at every turn ) . |
| 24 | This provision is to cover the situation where a person works the same number of hours within , say 4 days , instead of 5 . |
| 25 | The exemption works the opposite way round to the expert customer test ( see page 37 above ) . |
| 26 | and always works the opposite way . |
| 27 | So it can be seen that the Wolverton Royal Train , with this modern programme , will move into the 21 st century , giving Wolverton Works the unique role of conveyors of Royalty through three centuries . |
| 28 | Number eight United driver Norman Bell , 39 , who works the 50-minute Barnard Castle to Bishop Auckland route in County Durham , was discovered during an investigation by the Polite Society . |