Example sentences of "[noun sg] work on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | by the station , her husband worked on the railway there . |
| 32 | 85% of the population worked on the land . |
| 33 | Certainly the careful structuring and methodical scrupulosity of his vernacular works on the development of spiritual life betoken an academic training . |
| 34 | Mrs Hamilton 's husband works on the oil rig . |
| 35 | The first indication that the fourth upsilon did indeed decay into B mesons came when the team working on the detector known as CLEO discovered energetic electrons and muons , presumably from the decays of B mesons ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 776 ) . |
| 36 | We are looking for someone to join an international team working on the identification and cloning of antifungal proteins from plants . |
| 37 | To some of the Wimpey International team working on the Arab Potash Expansion plant it is a trip down memory lane . |
| 38 | The team working on the Elton project says it 's had definite results — increasing some children 's concentration and that they join in more than before . |
| 39 | Unlike a petrol engine with a throttle , or accelerator , to vary the amount of fuel and air being sucked into the engine , diesel works on the principle that air in a cylinder will , if it is compressed , heat enough to ignite fuel without the use of a spark plug . |
| 40 | During the extensive repair works on the building following this incident , Richard Baxter preached in St.Bride 's at the other end of Fleet Street . |
| 41 | Is that erm quite a dangerous job working on the , on the building sites ? |
| 42 | ‘ I took a job working on the roads at Knaresborough , ’ he recalls , laughing again . |
| 43 | This was an actual 15-megaton bomb working on the principle of fission-fusion-fission and exploded on Bikini Atoll , on 1 March , 1954 . |
| 44 | In 1828 he became the partner of his friend and younger rival , James Muspratt [ q.v. ] , who had emigrated to Lancashire in 1822 , in building a Leblanc-process soda works on the St Helens canal . |
| 45 | His wife worked on the railways during the war and had her own fruit and general goods shop for 14 years . |
| 46 | It usually involves , surgeons working simultaneously ; one working in the abdomen removing the colon and performing a colostomy and the other working on the perineum removing the rectum and anus . |
| 47 | It is now the responsibility of the person working on the DC to decide whether to continue with the DC or to abort it . |
| 48 | Both the expense and the wide-ranging subject matter in this book mean that few people will buy it , but it should be in the library of any organisation working on the platinum group metals . |
| 49 | Or it was for the production crew working on the new children 's series The Borrowers . |
| 50 | There are 400 commitments to take forward in the next year — from proposals for new standards for indoor air quality to work on the major international agreements which we hope will be signed at the earth summit in Brazil in June 1992 . |
| 51 | Applications are invited for the post of Research Assistant to work on the structure , function and assembly of the nuclear envelope . |
| 52 | 0-4-0T Cadbury Number 2 was the first steam locomotive to work on the Severn Valley Railway 's Kidderminster Station Coal Yard Branch Line . |
| 53 | Government and Parliament will have a stronger role to work on the consumer 's behalf . |
| 54 | My father worked on the railway and in my conscious life he was a supervisor , he was called an inspector , Inspector . |
| 55 | Stoke area was chosen I suppose because my father worked on the railway and you either worked on the railway or if you lived over Stoke , it was well known for that . |
| 56 | During the days , while the Captain worked on the ship , Frankenstein wrote down his story , and each evening he read what he had written to the Captain . |
| 57 | We were a large family of seven and my father worked on the railway and he only had two pounds a week , but we could make three pounds and ten shillings just at the weekend by working the clubs . |
| 58 | Ian Elmore and John Whitwich , from Walsall , were horrified to see dozens of specimen tench and big carp struggling in just ten inches of water when they visited engineering works on the Park Hall stetch of the Rushall Canal near Walsall . |
| 59 | The real cost of river mismanagement can begin with engineering works on the watercourse itself . |
| 60 | The civil engineering works on the Heywood line are being designed by the respective Engineering Departments of Bury and Rochdale Councils . |