Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Careers Officers work closely with young people to ensure that they are aware of their skills , aptitudes and interests , so that they can make positive and productive decisions about applying for work . |
| 2 | Having impounded these two sets for the time , we give our full attention to such influences as the inducements which good fishing wages will offer to sailors to stay in their fishing homes for a year or two , instead of applying for work on a ship . |
| 3 | Pepper explained in an interview , ‘ When I came to the hotel I was sort of looking for work . |
| 4 | A man who is made redundant may feel unable to tell his wife what has happened and keep up the pretence of leaving for work every day . |
| 5 | Her younger brother John 's early death and the missionary fervour aroused by the death of David Livingstone [ q.v. ] in 1873 , spurred Mary into applying for work further afield . |
| 6 | Other women did not want to adopt the ‘ unemployed ’ label associated with registering for work or did not want confirmation of their unemployed status . |
| 7 | Via registering for work with a nurse ‘ bank ’ in the NHS or in the independent sector . |
| 8 | It has to be accepted that , in the short run , it is difficult to raise the skills , and therefore the value of the output of marginal workers ( marginal in the sense of their position in competing for work ) . |
| 9 | Thirdly , official labour market intermediaries in the job centres are an important source of information about employment prospects and a crucial part of the process of discouraging older workers from searching for work and , indirectly , of encouraging them to take early retirement . |
| 10 | Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all . |
| 11 | A few days later when Tess came back from looking for work , the children came running out and danced round her . |
| 12 | For example , the purchaser may object to the practices used by the vendor in accounting for work in progress and obsolete stock . |
| 13 | Nurses are invited to make it known that for one reason or another they may encounter difficulties in attending for work as scheduled . |
| 14 | ‘ But it is foolish to ignore this important element in preparing for work . ’ |
| 15 | This is particularly useful if done before leaving for work on hot days . |
| 16 | There is , however , plenty of evidence from contemporaries , as well as from historians , that not all husbands were drunken brutes and that many would willingly take a hand at quietening the baby for an hour or two after a long working day , or take tea up to their wives before leaving for work . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sorry about your father , ’ Ross had told her one morning before leaving for work . |
| 18 | What is the difference between Learning for Work and Training for Work ? |
| 19 | Sue : Can we talk now about Learning for Work ? |
| 20 | The services offered are often generic and when it comes to competing for work from the SSD , ‘ being a Jack of all trades does n't fit easily into the contracting culture ’ . |
| 21 | Starts on Learning for Work |
| 22 | he said , you bloody have n't , he says , you 're gon na look for work . |
| 23 | He says , you 're gon na look for work . |