Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After evaluation , the child 's key worker draws up a ‘ renurturing ’ programme to promote attachment or work on grief or identity . |
| 2 | Most members of the elite accepted the contrast or worked for gradual reform . |
| 3 | As I walked out of another final-year class at fox Primary , the pupils were building complex models out of balsawood or working on the theories of gearing with big pieces of plastic Meccano . |
| 4 | a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment . |
| 5 | You may not have heard of the journalist or author concerned but that does not mean that they are not engaged on a bona fide testing programme or working on a first-class magazine feature . |
| 6 | Was he , as I originally suspected in Salamanca , an FBI agent or working for the CIA ? ft was a mystery I had no longer any wish to clear up . |
| 7 | Being in a band is as valid as anything like getting an apprenticeship or working in a furniture factory , which were the options open to me . |
| 8 | A labourer complained , " touching in particular the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor , not finding a house and providing labour or work for the said William Ashton to do in the parish " . |
| 9 | Is there a Somerville accountant living or working in London who might be able to give her time and expertise to this task ? |
| 10 | there is a basic four-chord harmonic sequence , used as a structural underpinning for much of the piece ; in a conventional rock song this might well have been deployed as a rift or worked into predictable phrase-structure patterns . |
| 11 | Teachers in higher education are bound to have a close understanding of much of the current thinking and work in their intellectual field . |
| 12 | Latest accounts — including liabilities , valuation of stock and work in progress , provision for taxation and deferred taxation and liability to capital gains tax if assets are disposed of at their balance sheet values . |
| 13 | Quality and age of stock and work in progress . |
| 14 | Where , for the purposes of the Completion Balance sheet , a conflict arises between the valuation of items of stock and work in progress under a ) or b ) above , the lower valuation shall prevail . |
| 15 | Stock and work in progress shall exclude any element of profit and should reflect only those items counted at the formal stocktake undertaken and observed by the Auditors and the Purchaser 's Accountants on 31 December , 1990 . |
| 16 | assuming that each item comprised in the Stock and work in progress could be sold in the ordinary course of business and allowing for estimated costs required to complete the items and for estimated selling costs on that assumption ; and |
| 17 | Where the Auditors and Purchaser 's Accountants disagree as to the valuation of an item and , where the disputed element of the valuation is less than [ £1,000 ] for an individual item , or the aggregate value of all disputed elements of valuation within the stock and work in progress are less than [ £10,000 ] both parties shall agree to accept the Auditors ' valuation . |
| 18 | The purchaser will be able to deduct before tax the acquisition cost of trading stock and work in progress . |
| 19 | Trading stock and work in progress |
| 20 | They decided to scale down the experiment and worked with a thinner piece of palladium , an 8 cm × 8 cm × 0.2 cm sheet rolled into a cylindrical shape , and also lowered the current to less than 0.2 amps instead of the 1.5 amp current that blew up the block . |
| 21 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 22 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 23 | ‘ All I want to do now is concentrate on football and work for the success of a great little club . ’ |
| 24 | Running the club and working on the house gets a bit much sometimes . ’ |
| 25 | President Babangida of Nigeria , assuming the chair of the organization for the coming year in succession to Ugandan President Museveni , said that his major tasks would be " to dismantle apartheid , restore peace in the troubled parts of the continent and work towards the smooth take-off of the African Economic Community ( AEC ) " . |
| 26 | One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City . |
| 27 | With the outbreak of World War II she gave up her research and worked in the Cambridge offices of the YMCA and WVS , and also in Addenbrooke 's Hospital library ( 1940–3 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ The basic characterisation of David Sumner represented an enormous amount of research and work on Dustin 's part , and I think it showed on the screen , ’ commented Goodman . |
| 29 | It offers an interconnected system of over 10,000 screens providing information on study and work in the 12 European Community member states , all controlled by a simple point-and-click system . |
| 30 | In this , she was encouraged by Shelley Saxon , a former manager with Honey Perriam , who had set up a consultancy practice and worked from an office in the same building . |