Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trish and Brian were out at work . |
| 2 | Sadly , as much as we wanted to keep her , we were out at work all day , and lived in a flat without a garden . |
| 3 | They were out at work often till late evening , but gave us the run of the house and William had the chance to get on with some schoolwork . |
| 4 | A hundred and thirty one of those were people who were out to work or unoccupied . |
| 5 | But two budgets — 1979 , which included a doubling of the standard rate of VAT on many goods and services and 1981 , which was severely deflationary at a time when over two million were out of work — shocked a number of Cabinet ministers . |
| 6 | Mr Tony Blair , Labour 's employment spokesman , said the rate of increase in the jobless total appeared to have slowed , but he said more were out of work than in virtually every other European Community country . |
| 7 | Industrial unrest followed , culminating in the great hand-loom weavers ' strike of 1825 , when 5,000 weavers and countless thousands of allied workers were out of work for three months . |
| 8 | One by one they were closed , and again many people were out of work — unemployed . |
| 9 | Whereas before the War so many deaf men were out of work due to the reluctance of employers following the implementation of the National Insurance and Workmen 's Compensation Acts , they were now able to pick and choose their employment as employers clamoured for their services . |
| 10 | Jack had been to tea at Tina 's house several times already and he rather liked the estate 's atmosphere , which was friendly and rackety , despite the fact that most of the inhabitants were out of work . |
| 11 | In the aftermath of the First World War , many skilled British craftsmen were out of work . |
| 12 | They were also much more likely to be unemployed — whilst 30 per cent of the white 16 — 19 year olds were out of work , 46 per cent of the West Indians and 35 per cent of the Asians in the same age group were . |
| 13 | More people were out of work in 1986 than in the worst years of the 1930s and long-term or ‘ structural ’ unemployment is increasingly common . |
| 14 | The Commissioners , for example , visited the Bidston area of Birkenhead , which has a 48 per cent male unemployment rate : ‘ but within this [ area ] , there are parts of the Ford Estate … where we had evidence that 80 per cent were out of work ’ ( p. 199 ) . |
| 15 | It had been built in the depression of 1870 — when most villagers were out of work — by the Countess of Saracen , whose birthday was still celebrated , and a mass said for her soul in the local Church of St Peter . |
| 16 | The doctor refused to give her more sleeping tablets but scribbled a prescription for tranquillizers , which were increasingly prescribed for women like Clare , with symptoms of anxiety in stressful situations such as poverty , divorce , or bereavement ; women with marital problems and women who were out of work also found them helpful , although the pills did nothing to resolve the problem responsible for the initial anxiety . |
| 17 | Is it because they were out of work or what ? |
| 18 | Er well I were out of work and er municipal elections used to come in November . |
| 19 | All the pilots were different but they all had a common theme , giving people who were out of work something worthwhile to do with their time . |
| 20 | And then the camps you see , during the war , you see people were out of work during the war e before the war in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 21 | Fourteen years after the war there were almost three million unemployed , and in the North-East and South Wales at least one-third of all breadwinners were out of work and being steadily pushed onto the meagre relief provided by the Poor Law . |
| 22 | ‘ They were out of work and underprivileged and now they are working for cut rates . ’ |
| 23 | for an insulation company and we were on a Government funding and money ran out and it took us up to Christmas really and after Christmas we were out of work for four months |
| 24 | In early January , 71,000 out of 187,000 miners were back at work . |
| 25 | Soon the skilled steel workers and the coal miners were back at work and there was money in the valleys for traders , services and shop keepers . |
| 26 | It should be noted , however , that if one million of the three million were back at work and not receiving unemployment and/or supplementary benefits from the Exchequer , it would put less strain on the public purse and make it easier to meet the social security benefits for the expected one million over-85-year-olds . |
| 27 | In December the majority of the men were back at work , with lower wages , an eight-hour day , and with a substantial minority condemned to permanent unemployment . |
| 28 | The national strike started on 3 May , with less support in Nottinghamshire than many other fields ( Sunley , 1988 ) ; work continued unbroken at Blidworth and Clipstone , two of the newly-opened Dukeries pits , and by September some 70 per cent of the county 's miners were back at work ( Griffin , 1962 , p. 183 ) . |
| 29 | By 23 July 19,000 men were back at work and on 27 July the strike committee ordered an immediate resumption . |
| 30 | However , within 24 hours Congress approved and Bush signed legislation ordering an end to the strike , with the result that most railworkers were back at work on the morning of April 18 . |