Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] work [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An employee must work a minimum of sixteen hours for two years continuously with the same employer to be eligible for payment . |
| 2 | Look Tim , we 'll have to wind it soon , daddy can work the new one . |
| 3 | His poor , hard suffering wife used to work every day at the laundry to pay for his excesses . |
| 4 | The review that we undertook of the calls shows that the peak demands in are between eight A M and twelve midnight , so the four officers will work a sixteen hour duty scheme er of eight till four , four til midnight , and then the cover between midnight and A M will come fr eight A M will come from as it does at present . |
| 5 | Under the new contracts staff would work a 37-hour week and have 35 days holiday to be taken at the management 's discretion . |
| 6 | But unless Mr Clinton sits him down and tells him what he believes in , Mr Gergen will work no miracles . |
| 7 | Such a society could work the traditional institutions of local government enshrined in the fiercely defended regional laws — the fueros . |
| 8 | The slaves would work the cane , the Spaniards had already demonstrated how well they tolerated the crop 's conditions , and most of the slaves were strong , young males . |
| 9 | When you analyse the ‘ hockey sticks ’ you usually find the claim that , despite all practical experience to the contrary , a simultaneous combination of your own increasing volume with increased prices will work the miracle . |
| 10 | The support can work the other way ; physiological knowledge can help us to build models . |
| 11 | This way of teaching can work the other way about . |
| 12 | And the world is all too prone to assuming that a scientific solution can work a miracle . |