Example sentences of "the [noun pl] work [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandably , there was a tremendous variation in the hours worked on the farms with one well-established and organised family putting in a 28-hour week . |
| 2 | In a traditional plant the engine , transmission , and axles are placed onto ‘ the track ’ — a chain-driven series of platforms which move continuously at a fixed pace while the operators work on the cars — and the painted body is lowered onto them . |
| 3 | When something goes wrong , the slogan ‘ Have machine , will travel ’ has a depressing ring of truth , especially disastrous in the winter season , since it is no good excavating a channel in midwinter if the ecologists working with the engineers on a scheme have not had the opportunity during the previous summer growing season to identify the existing aquatic habitat affected . |
| 4 | Besides I do n't think the gondoliers work in the depths of winter . |
| 5 | Indeed the changes wrought by the Prussians were to have enormous consequences for the formation of nationalist opinion in the city after the First World War , and it is important to see the extent to which these policies provided the basis of German identity and political purpose in the east , and provoked the very Polish nationalist response they supposedly sought to suppress or prevent . |
| 6 | Spectators will also be able to talk to the scientists working beneath the waves . |
| 7 | and because the clinics were not attached to the main hospitals , there was no feedback from other disciplines in medicine , and , furthermore , the doctors working in the clinics did not have to undergo the vigorous selection procedures that were usual for hospital posts . |
| 8 | Project English encourages learning through project work : as the pupils work through the projects in the Student 's Book , they gradually build up similar projects of their own by carrying out a number of project tasks . |
| 9 | " A woman worker " wrote to the Despatch in late August , claiming that " persistent attempts are being made by the men to work on the motives of selfishness and self-interest of the women " . |