Example sentences of "worked for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the administrative sphere it decided to operate through the traditional élites which had worked for the Jordanian government . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had also acquired a solid grounding in revolutionary politics and in France had worked for the Boulangist cause . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For the thirty or so recruits of Calais Platoon , part of the Adult Training Company , today is the day towards which they have worked for the past five months . |
| 12 | Well I 've worked for the past two year really |
| 13 | Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , while Andrei Kokoshin had worked for the foreign policy " think-tank " , the USA and Canada Institute . |
| 14 | has worked for the Latin American Council of Churches in Brazil . |
| 15 | A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , Angus Fletcher joined P&O Properties in 1987 as assistant to the P&O Group Surveyor , having previously worked for the Inland Revenue in the Chief Valuer 's Office . |
| 16 | After a brief spell as ambassador to Turkey , he was expelled from the party and then worked for the Slovak forestry commission . |
| 17 | He rhapsodized about Franklin Roosevelt who , he said , was still regarded " almost as a god in place like West Virginia " , because , although rich , he had worked for the common people . |
| 18 | He 's worked for the National Children 's Bureau . |
| 19 | IAN WILLIAMS , A WELSH NURSE , WORKED FOR THE BRITISH RED CROSS IN KISMAYO , SOMALIA , IN THE SUMMER OF 1992 , A TIME WHEN THE WORLD 'S MEDIA CHOSE TO FOCUS ON THE CONTINUING CIVIL WAR IN THIS FAMINE-STRICKEN COUNTRY , HE SEES THE SUFFERING OF SOMALIA ROOTED IN CLAN DIVISIONS … |
| 20 | Before becoming deputy chairman of the Defence Council under Gorbachev , Baklanov had been in the CPSU secretariat [ see p. 38131 ] , and had worked for the military-industrial complex . |
| 21 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |