Example sentences of "[prep] work the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These protect the timber from insects and rots but they also help to account for the high cost of working the best tropical woods because the silica blunts tools very quickly and the splinters of greenheart are poisonous . |
| 2 | I will sometimes arrange to discuss things on three successive Mondays , for example , or three successive months perhaps , because you never have to take a quick decision in a business , and out of the talking with people who respond to your way of working the right answer very often comes — the decisions mostly take themselves . |
| 3 | The test for this comes when someone , or some group , is offered a pay rise ( in real terms ) and the choice either of working the same number of hours and taking home the extra money or of maintaining their real income but reducing the hours worked . |
| 4 | A clause inserted by Lord Muncaster reserved for himself the right " at any time during the said 21 yrs " , if he so wished , to become a " partner of ¼ in the concern " by paying a " full part of the expenses from the commencement thereof of working the same … " |
| 5 | But was n't this kind of work the best that Krenek could do ? |
| 6 | The success of Hammer encouraged other companies into working the same seam . |
| 7 | Correspondingly , Alcoholics Anonymous emphasizes that the choice of understanding and action involved in working the suggested twelve step programme of recovery will have definite beneficial emotional consequences as well as the obvious physiological improvements resulting from abstinence . |
| 8 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 9 | They 're not too worried about getting up for work the next day . |
| 10 | Other plans in the pipeline at that time included two new cutters , longer and beamier than Venturous , capable of high speeds and suitable for working the stormy waters of the north . |
| 11 | From there the vans would be collected by the ex-Great Central Railway Fish Dock tankers ( a little outside cylinder 0 — 6 — 0 side tank locomotive of a short-wheel base design for working the tight curves on the docks ) and pushed up the fish jetty for loading with fish for despatch to such places as Leicester and Banbury as part of the express fish train service offered by the railway . |
| 12 | This then inevitably means that by the early spring it is worth working the same ground a second time . |
| 13 | In recovery , the anger has to be acknowledged and then dealt with constructively through working the 12 Steps . |
| 14 | By working the hard material between one 's fingers , the transition from glass to rubber will be felt as the sample warms up . |