Example sentences of "[verb] on [adj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it difficult to understand how they are going to carry on experimental work at other depots that are n't really equipped to carry out experimental work , and so for that reason , I mean , there 's a great deal of concern that these cuts are n't rather more cosmetic that they 've been made out to be . |
| 2 | Usually , the contract will mention the fee , but this provision might be useful if the supplier takes on additional work at the request of the other party and no mention is made at the time of agreement of the charge for this extra work . |
| 3 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 4 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 5 | In general , it has been accepted that people can take on part-time work in this way if it has not been their usual employment pattern . |
| 6 | Jamieson ( 1986 ) in her study of working-class mothers and daughters in urban Scotland in roughly the same period , found that young adult women living in the parental home would take on domestic work to assist their mothers routinely and extensively , in a way not replicated by their male counterparts . |
| 7 | ‘ Marriage can succeed for an artist only where there is enough money to save him from taking on uncongenial work and a wife who is intelligent enough to understand and respect the working of the unfriendly cycle of the creative imagination . |
| 8 | The organization is infectious ; many people have joined intending to make a small , easily-managed commitment and ended up doing three or four shifts a week and taking on extra work until sometimes their whole life becomes bound up in the organization . |
| 9 | However various kinds of feminists might wish it otherwise , women play a mix of roles in present-day British society : they are wives , mothers , daughters and paid workers , and they somehow juggle all these roles together , largely by taking on part-time work which , as Land points out , is seriously marginalised when it comes to occupational benefits . |
| 10 | Not taking on more work yourself in order to take over financial responsibility from the primary sufferer while he or she continues to drink . |
| 11 | Write down examples of when you last ( i ) took on extra work in order to provide something for the addict in your life . |
| 12 | He gradually took on full-time work in the same company , and gained three promotions within a year . |
| 13 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 14 | Pioneering NHS industrial units in large hospitals thus took on subcontracted work from local factories . |
| 15 | In recent years an increasing proportion of married women even with pre-school children have taken on part-time work . |
| 16 | I understood how and why Jean-Claude had so enthusiastically taken on this work . |
| 17 | ( 'Would you look after my children while I go out and enjoy myself ? ’ 'Would you take on extra work because I am tired ? ' ) |
| 18 | They often study psychology after developing some expertise in it through education , community , health , or social services work , and they usually return to or take on such work , rather than becoming professional psychologists . |
| 19 | They take on this work , not for pin money , but to provide for their family 's basic needs . |
| 20 | A scheme the weekly earnings disregard from £15 for a man and dependent wife to £60 a week for six months , to encourage the over-50s to take on part-time work . |
| 21 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 22 | Apart from , as CAJEC chairman said , ‘ clearing up any misunderstanding that this enquiry procedure is just restricted to audits — it applies to all assignments ’ , other significant changes include requiring firms to provide minimum accounting information to a successor even where fees remain outstanding and stronger procedures to be followed by firms to inform the existing adviser that they have been invited to take on additional work . |
| 23 | It was never fully explained why he had to leave , but we can imagine that the ardour with which he had previously performed his duties ( always the first to take on extra work ) had gone too far . |
| 24 | Many of them , it was suggested by the organisations we spoke to , are married women with domestic commitments who are unable or unwilling to work on a regular basis but who value the opportunity to take on occasional work outside normal hours , particularly in the pre-Christmas period ( the height of the banqueting season ) . |