Example sentences of "worked [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It 's worked for every other country . |
| 2 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 3 | The temporary nature of her job , staying only a few weeks at any one place , meant she had met and worked for a wide variety of men . |
| 4 | However , if , as applies to many women , despite having worked for a good number of years you have made insufficient contributions to qualify for a full pension , you should contact your local Social Security office , quoting your pension number and national insurance number . |
| 5 | In January this year , three long service presentations were made at Douglas Reyburn to those who had worked for a continuous twenty five years with the company . |
| 6 | None of the Conservative councillors worked for a local authority in any capacity ( Gyford 1983b:9 ) . |
| 7 | studied chartered accountancy at the Oxford Polytechnic and for the last 18 months has worked for a local chartered accountant . |
| 8 | In the new South Africa , if you 've worked for a white family for more than five years , you get to keep the house … |
| 9 | Speaking at his home at James Street , Falkirk , Graeme explained that before the incident , he had worked for a short spell on a YTS course with ScotRail , before taking a job as a gardener . |
| 10 | His father was an engineer and his mother worked for a minor official in the Ministry of Post and Communications . |
| 11 | The striking feature of the activities at which children worked for a high proportion of the time was involvement with other people ; conversely , most of the activities at which children worked for the lowest proportion of time writing , reading , drawing/painting — involved no other people and could have been carried out most effectively in isolation . |
| 12 | Worked for a clearing bank . |
| 13 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 14 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |
| 15 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 16 | She had worked for a bent company running credit checks on people , had temped for an employment agency , a bank , and as a telephonist . |
| 17 | In spite of these initial advantages , furnishing fabrics , as clothes , were badly in need of overall direction and it was also in Paris that a young woman who had no formal design training but had worked for the exclusive Colefax and Fowler , was hired . |
| 18 | Four of the dead worked for the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem and included Musa Anter , 74 , a veteran Kurd journalist , author and founder-member of the HEP , who was shot dead in Diyarbakir on Sept. 20 by the Goz-Ok ( Grey Arrow ) nationalist group . |
| 19 | The process of forming a government was slowed by numerous allegations that as many as 10 per cent of new deputies had worked for the former Ministry of State Security police ( " Stasi " ) as active informants . |
| 20 | The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police . |
| 21 | In the administrative sphere it decided to operate through the traditional élites which had worked for the Jordanian government . |
| 22 | With noble , fine-boned features that have brought comparisons with Audrey Hepburn , she could have gone to Hollywood but has chosen British projects which she feels mean something — though she has routinely worked for the mere promise of a salary at some future point when the films make money . |
| 23 | She had also acquired a solid grounding in revolutionary politics and in France had worked for the Boulangist cause . |
| 24 | Gabriella Gast , 47 , who had worked for the Federal Counterintelligence Agency ( Bundesnachrichtendienst — BND ) since 1973 and had access to the weekly intelligence report sent to Kohl , was arrested as announced on Oct. 2 . |
| 25 | The striking feature of the activities at which children worked for a high proportion of the time was involvement with other people ; conversely , most of the activities at which children worked for the lowest proportion of time writing , reading , drawing/painting — involved no other people and could have been carried out most effectively in isolation . |
| 26 | Nonconformity 's dependence on laissez faire and , in the case of Methodism , on competition among five separate bodies , had not always worked for the best and there had been a lot of wasted effort . |
| 27 | Having worked for the influential retailer Woodhouse since it opened in 1975 , Guy Tolson is well-placed to analyse the ebb and flow of trends in fashionable menswear . |
| 28 | As she had worked for the civil service previously , she applied and was sent a booklet which specified an age range for applicants of 17 ½ to 28 years . |
| 29 | It follows the publication of medical research which says men who 've worked for the Atomic Energy Authority and may have been exposed to certain radioactive materials have more than twice the normal risk of developing prostate cancer . |
| 30 | Reduction of the hours worked for the full-time employees and not for the part-time employees would result in a financial advantage for the full-time employees . |