Example sentences of "[prep] work with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He said that the key to tackling this employment deficit lay in the bottom-up approach of working with individual , indigenous firms , rather than the old top-down formula of picking winners and targeting particular sectors .
2 The physical difficulty of working with oceanic animals has limited cetacean study in the past , and much of the information available on whales over the last few centuries has , ironically , come from the whaling industry .
3 The first three groups have some experience of working with each other , aware of the various imperatives in the fight to manage records well .
4 In a reply to Openshaw 's strictures Webber ( 1980 ) , however , reiterated the difficulty of working with such vast data sets and with new complex statistical procedures involving dozens of variables , and claimed that the classification was as far advanced as any could be , bearing in mind the constraints of public policy and the realities of time and cost .
5 The wall panel ‘ Eruption ’ is made from fibreglass and rockwool ( a loft insulation fibre , composed of crushed glass ) ; ‘ the horror of working with such a dangerous and literally painful material was part of the piece ’ .
6 Internationalisation — Company Programmes have developed an understanding of working with multicultural groups and the differing managerial styles and practice around the world .
7 It was confused , slow to change — a factor amplified by the fact that there was no party conference between October 1937 and May 1939 — and deliberately hostile to the idea of working with other anti-fascist groups .
8 The reason he wanted desperately to get into the company was that Ninette de Valois , to whom he had already spoken about his choreographic ambitions , had told him that experience of working with other choreographers and dancing their ballets was essential to learn his craft .
9 My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons .
10 It requires lots of experience of working with other people in varied situations .
11 It is a matter of scale ; of working with like-minded , self-employed farmers and craftsmen rather than of subservience to faceless officials and giant firms .
12 After nine years of working with elderly people over 65 and coming across cases of physical abuse without a definition or context , she carried out a study between 1988 and 1989 .
13 participants ' present knowledge about and experience of working with bilingual students
14 JACs and juvenile employment committees also made use of COS methodology and volunteers , who brought with them experience of working with young people .
15 He made a point of working with modern materials such as cast iron and linoleum .
16 We have n't that much experience of working with thirteen to fourteen year olds , so we have been collaborating closely with the teachers in devising what could go into each lecture .
17 Portage is a method of working with pre-school children whose development is delayed : parents teach their children at home under the guidance of a Portage worker who visits the family once a week .
18 It may indeed be that for some teachers there really is no possibility of working with real integrity , and consequently no possibility of deriving any deep satisfaction from what they do .
19 These observations usefully demonstrate the hazards of working with fewer than 10 tokens ; the ideal appears to be around 30 , but if this can not be attained a figure as much as possible in excess of 10 is a sensible goal .
20 Lesbian and gay activists learned from the GLC experience about the benefits and dangers of working with local councils ; heterosexual members of the Labour Party and councillors became less afraid of lesbian and gay issues ; lesbian and gay rights increasingly became part of the package offered by the new social-movement oriented , urban Left .
21 In what follows I will not be proposing solutions so much as ways of working with these problems in relation to the study of crime and its correction .
22 Members of the Consultative Forum were asked to nominate people with experience of developing , using and evaluating staff development materials to take part in trial testing and the workshops were run by SCOTVEC Field Officers who had no previous experience of working with these materials .
23 ‘ I DID N'T think that Chester would have a homeless problem ’ , is a comment we hear quite often , says Father Tim Dowling , Father Guardian of St Francis 's Church and Honorary Secretary of Chester Aid to the Homeless , CATH , as it is known for short , is a registered charity , which this year notches up 20 years of working with homeless people .
24 They relate to such key issues as : the long-standing debate about specialist and generic modes of working ; the advocacy of teams based in small neighbourhood patches and the assertion that such teams are the best way of working with informal networks and non-statutory agencies ; the official enthusiasm for ‘ mobilizing resources ’ and casting social services in an enabling role : and the advocacy of a demarcation between ‘ purchaser ’ and provider roles .
25 The Oxford team has it 's own history of working with notable finds like Lindow man , preserved for 2000 years in a peat bog in Cheshire .
26 Meanwhile , seasons were short and widely spaced , the dancers were limited in ability , and in John 's rather impatient view there were no real designers except for Hanns : ‘ I 'm sick of working with would-be 's ’ , he wrote .
27 The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal .
28 My own way of working with this is to make players practise with the left hand only .
29 Her normal pattern of working with this type of activity is for everyone to undertake the same task .
30 Why were lesbians angered when we questioned the sense of working with gay men in order to counter gay oppression ?
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