Example sentences of "[adv] work on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | McIlvanney went on to work on the Scotsman as a news reporter and feature writer , though with his passion for football and boxing , the attraction towards sports was inevitable . |
| 2 | Oliphant , who was also knighted , went on to work on the atomic bomb , and subsequently returned to his native South Australia , where he became Governor . |
| 3 | Normally , unless you have one of these keys , you would have to call the water company 's engineers if you wanted the mains turned off for any reason — perhaps to work on the mains stopcock inside the house . |
| 4 | Soon she would get down to work on the garden ; it would be something to do at the weekends . |
| 5 | I started to fix the tongue and groove boarding , and with a few boards in place , felt confident enough to work on the roof . |
| 6 | Towards 2000 will see members of FYT Regional groups and committees meet together to work on the needs of marginalised young people in the last decade of this century . |
| 7 | With the help of the ESRC , the Yorkshire Dales National Park hope to transform countryside interpretation into an active and creative means of bringing landowners , policymakers and the public together to work on the best way to manage one of the great scenic treasures of northern England , yet maintain a healthy rural economy . |
| 8 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 9 | we do n't all work on the clone do we ? |
| 10 | As the Welsh policy says , the internal market can only work on the basis of a high level of integration of technology . |
| 11 | At first , she only worked on the household duties , especially the cooking . |
| 12 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 13 | The Met , Signals and Switchboard girls all worked on the same ground floor , next to each other , and at the end of the corridor were the girls in the Intelligence office , although they did n't mix with us so much . |
| 14 | As autumn slipped gradually into winter so work on the farm slowed down . |
| 15 | Judging by the enthusiasm of the men , women and children who all work on the dam and piped-water project , he has made a start . |
| 16 | I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think . |
| 17 | For example , the chief in Figure 5.15 has control over the whole machine , whereas the draughtsman only works on the fine detail of a specific part . |
| 18 | And then there was the second tier of the cake , something a little bit different , something a little bit more special for the seventy fifth year but still perhaps working on the tried and tested . |
| 19 | Scotland will hold a public practice at Murrayfield today , though part of it will likely be in camera — when the forwards head indoors to work on the hydraulic scrummaging machine . |
| 20 | He had opposed it along with the rest of the General Advisory Committee but it was no clear-cut moral stand : ‘ I never urged anyone not to work on the hydrogen bomb project , ’ he told the inquiry . |
| 21 | Protestors fighting plans to open a clinic for sex offenders have persuaded contractors not to work on the building . |
| 22 | All this suggests that gentle pressure will not work on the press . |
| 23 | When a crime is reported to the police they do not work on the assumption that anyone could have done it . |
| 24 | They read Drude 's plant geography and decided to do a similar study , but soon found that the European techniques did not work on the almost featureless prairie . |
| 25 | The Department has taken away the earnings-related supplement , and have got rid of death and maternity grant and income support for 16 and 17-year-olds who would not work on the Tory Government 's slave labour schemes . |
| 26 | They normally worked on the Mitcham route , but had to run over most of the Sutton route to reach the depôt . |
| 27 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |
| 28 | All it is it 's plugged in in in the hall and it is just a box a little box about this big and we just er it 's just worked on the different |
| 29 | While in use on the Croydon system , these cars normally worked on the Thornton Heath — Purley service and like 46–55 were probably too large for the Penge or Addiscombe services . |
| 30 | From then on , Nos. 1–17 normally worked on the Penge route , 18 and 20 were the Thornton Heath route spares and No. 19 a general spare . |