Example sentences of "[verb] work [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Rule-based parsers tend to work on a sentential basis which appears to be too much delay for users .
2 Despite being generally unlicensed these tend to work alongside the regular staff usually in the larger urban abattoirs .
3 We tend to work from the Centre in the friendly critic role .
4 Having become established , people tend to work within the tradition for reasons which are never properly articulated .
5 Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis .
6 ‘ I did n't want to work in a shop or a bank so I wrote to my local radio station , West Sound , asking if I could make the tea . ’
7 I did n't want to work in a place where I could n't wear my fur coat .
8 When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble .
9 Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory .
10 she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want
11 Bradshaw and Millar found that about two-thirds ( 62 per cent ) of lone mothers on income support said that they did not want to work immediately although they would want to work in the future .
12 But who 'd want to work in the small labs if the more exciting stuff went elsewhere ? "
13 He surprised and alarmed us all by saying that , following the liberalisation of exit controls , he expected that up to 7 million Soviet citizens would want to work in the west .
14 I do n't know , I did n't really want to work in an office .
15 The Union of October ( Octobrists ) , a loose political alliance led by landed nobility and a few prominent industrialists , was formed to work with the Tsar on the basis of the Manifesto .
16 More enthusiastic was the Union of 17 October ( Octobrists ) , a loose political alliance led by landed nobility and a few prominent industrialists , which was formed to work with the Tsar on the basis of the Manifesto .
17 So I 'm sorry Mr Chairman if the report is doom and gloom but that is the situation that does prevail we will endeavour to work to the best of our ability , or the lack of it but please remember the constraints that we are under and if we have got any views , to stand , and if we do want to help the people in Dundee and we do want to stop the government pilfering the British Rail pension scheme
18 This may be a tutor , ward sister or charge nurse , or a member of the ward team who is designated to work as a ‘ mentor ’ — a personal counsellor and guide throughout your reorientation period and even beyond .
19 After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed .
20 and I do prefer to work on the er on a personal recommendations or referrals basis because that actually allows me to , to devote most of my time to my current clients without having to go out cold calling and looking for people .
21 You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern .
22 I 'd prefer to work in a factory .
23 Because Miguel , in the same incident , has been bitten but not seriously injured , Sarah tries to save him by cutting off his infected arm with a machete — an effect that failed to work with the first model , until an assistant of Savini 's used a spare rubber arm with the cut prefilled with wax .
24 We have got to go to work with a lot of of of er tension and pressure on us .
25 Charles Brown , for example , was born in Northamptonshire in 1855 and had to go to work as a boy when his father , an agricultural labourer earning 12s. a week , was taken ill .
26 ‘ Leo actually had to go to work in a pair of my knickers , ’ Emma said .
27 I was always worried when he went to work , but y you do n't think your husband 's going to go to work in the morning at five o'clock and never come home again .
28 The begetters of the whole event are artist Chris Garratt and writer Mick Kidd , who will be running a practical workshop in the Dovecot tomorrow , when they intend to work to a deadline to produce a complete comic strip .
29 There are frequent occasions in a drama session when children are divided into groups and asked to work on a task .
30 ‘ Many people with this disease are able to continue to work for a very long time and there is no evidence to suggest that her condition and the error are necessarily linked . ’
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