Example sentences of "the [noun pl] work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danny McStay and Welland Chu are the researchers working on the project . |
| 2 | The builders worked throughout the weekend , so with their hammering and concrete mixing and loud radios , it was impossible to ignore their presence . |
| 3 | Being asked how much the foresaid are worth per annum , he says with the pasture belonging to the maintenance of the animals working in the plough teams they are worth per annum £17 . " |
| 4 | The greater proportion of boys in the sample reflected more high scoring boys than girls being in the lower mathematics sets in the schools working with the project . |
| 5 | For those that understand such terminology it might be said that the remedies work at the level of energy and not of matter . |
| 6 | On the second day the guests worked with the R&D flavourists concocting flavours they themselves had suggested . |
| 7 | The Stotherts work on the theory that modest things can look good in the right surroundings , and there are plenty of examples around the house . |
| 8 | The effect of the Transfer Regulations is that the contracts of employment of the persons working in the business immediately before it is transferred are novated automatically to the purchaser on completion of the transfer . |
| 9 | The changes wrought by the Heath government were allowed to survive , to be left for Mrs Thatcher gleefully to dismantle in the eighties . |
| 10 | ‘ Recent ’ in this case seems to mean c1990 ; thus reference is made to proposals for Manchester 's Metrolink to run in the City Centre , while the changes wrought by the Transport and Works Act 1992 are barely anticipated . |
| 11 | These contract the muscles working through the knee without moving the joint itself , so they are ideal for managing acute knee injury . |
| 12 | But Jane Sloan , of Cornwall SSD , feel more money needs to be made available as ‘ we have n't got enough money to get the resources to work with the problem . |
| 13 | The consultants working on the Fastlink plan will define the terms of a competition to encourage interest among private companies . |
| 14 | This first approach to studying international relations has become known as Idealism , although this was not a term that the academics working in the subject at the time used themselves . |
| 15 | Climatic differences cause changes in the nature and balance of the processes working on the earth 's surface with the result that the ensuing landforms may vary considerably . |
| 16 | No evidence was called for from the professionals working in the health services , yet this review and White Paper have introduced some of the most radical suggestions for running the health services since the original 1946 Act . |
| 17 | Soviet spokesmen naturally used various arguments to encourage the neutralists to work for the dissolution of CENTO and SEATO , but Soviet leaders may have recognised already in the 1960s that these alliances were operating more effectively as political symbols than as military structures . |
| 18 | She said she was going to take them to the men working on the road . ’ |
| 19 | Some injuries had apparently been caused by the explosion dislodging flooring and equipment on the overhead jigs which had crashed on to the men working on the shop-floor . |
| 20 | A high voltage lamp was then fixed in each compartment to give light when necessary for the men working in the compartment . |
| 21 | Arnold Whitchurch , the chairman of the Board of Governors there , thought that ‘ if the hospitals worked with the County Council they might do a tremendous lot for the co-ordination of the general health system . |
| 22 | The apse is widely believed to represent the peak of Gothic architecture in Italy and was completed at a time when many of the architects working on the project had been brought in from Germany . |
| 23 | Because of its sensitive nature , access to the report was confined to the attorneys working on the case . |
| 24 | The moderator will normally expect to see documentary evidence of the circumstances cited and samples of the students work at the time of moderating the assignments and/or examination scripts . |
| 25 | Wiped out by a five-hour flight to a city where riding the subway is an act of hedonism , and where the pollution on the streets works on the brain like speed , driving people scrambling to the summits of New York City 's towers of granite and power . |
| 26 | The night was warm and still , its silence broken only by the sound — a distant , almost disembodied sound — of the soldiers working on the cottage . |
| 27 | They missed Delmonico 's by only a few blocks geographically but far more gastronomically — or so Maxim assumed since he also assumed that Delmonico 's did n't specialise in hamburgers and tuna sandwiches for the decorators working on the shop next door . |