Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [noun sg] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she asked what she should think again about , she was advised to train for office work . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 3 | The first was that the estimates of risk of death from cancer which are used to predict for radiation work — mainly from A-bomb victims — seem to be borne out by these early results . |
| 4 | But Coun Olwen Jones , in a letter to the council , supported the quarry company 's application so that it would have the flexibility to compete for contract work on the A55 . |
| 5 | In addition , the school is donating £900 to CAFOD for relief work in Ethiopia and Somalia and £450 to the Sylvia Wright Trust . |
| 6 | They 're protesting at the government 's proposals to allow private firms to tender for prison work . |
| 7 | As individual craftsmen neither had the desire nor the capital to pay for development work on machinery suitable for small-scale home-based use , factory-based manufacture would have become relatively more efficient over time as the technology was developed . |
| 8 | A MAJOR appeal for cash to pay for renovation work at a volunteer ambulance brigade 's crumbling headquarters is still £7,000 short of its £10,000 target . |
| 9 | The trouble is that charity work never ends and the same can be said for the constant need for money to pay for research work , buy new hospital machinery or vehicles for disabled youngsters . |
| 10 | The City Council bought the site from a scrap merchant , but it can no longer afford to pay for restoration work and Llanthony itself seems destined for the scrapheap . |