Example sentences of "[was/were] work for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were working for a pay of from 9d. a day to 2/6 . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough men Paul Brudenell , of Clynes Road , and Barry Ferguson were working for a firm of contractors at 2am yesterday when the incident happened . |
| 3 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 4 | They added that they were working for the government undercover and that they had enough evidence to ‘ make the charge stick ’ . |
| 5 | The first real headhunting firms — in the first phase of headhunting — insisted that they were working for the company , not the candidate , and the company was paying the bill . |
| 6 | just under one in five CASE students in employment were working for the employing organisation associated with their CASE award ; |
| 7 | Meanwhile Today wo n't comment because of legal proceedings … they add Neither the editor nor the managing editor of Today were working for the newspaper at the time of the original article on April 25th 1989 . |
| 8 | During the quarter ending December 1991 , 923 people were working for the council . |
| 9 | * Is your sickness due to an accident which happened while you were working for an employer ? |
| 10 | * Is your sickness due to a prescribed industrial disease caused by conditions at work , while you were working for an employer ? |
| 11 | If you and I were working for an organization which gave say half a million to charity , our , I mean correct me if I 'm wrong , but I , I 'm sure our temptation would be to say how can we promote this giving in the media in order , let's be honest about it , to make our , us look good , partly that would be it . |
| 12 | He were working for an erm Macro or something . |
| 13 | What I did n't want was to work for a large organisation . |
| 14 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 15 | Its immediate economic aim was to work for the reduction and eventual elimination of tariffs on most industrial goods among its members . |
| 16 | It was to work for the complete organisation of all ship , dock and river workers in order to raise their wages and improve their working conditions . |
| 17 | From the 1780s , the mill was worked for the production of both white and brown paper , passing through the hands of J. Stephens , W. Stephens and James Stevens . |
| 18 | Mr Heseltine was working for a 50:50 hybrid tax , split between property and head-tax . |
| 19 | IN 1989 I was working for a community video project called Women 's Media Resources . |
| 20 | I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course . |
| 21 | I remember a graphic example of this when I was working for a blessedly short period as a Russian interpreter in Berlin in 1946 . |
| 22 | By now Caroline had left the London college and was working for a glossy magazine in Cardiff . |
| 23 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 24 | The lower classes — if we talk about upper and middle how can we not talk about lower ? — served tea , beer , gin and stodgy food , cut as often as not into hamfisted wedges , fit to fill the belly not the hand , and , understanding that the band was working for a living , treated it with respect and decorum . |
| 25 | Frank was working for a large nursery and wanted to get into management when his eyesight started to fail . |
| 26 | Paul Ride was working for a catering company in Kuwait -- but was arrested and jailed earlier this year after apparently straying accross the border into Iraq . |
| 27 | He was working for an engineering firm and met Herbert in the course of business . |
| 28 | The new Public Appointments Unit set up in 1975 to revivify the List was run by Jonathan Charkham , a well-heeled nomad who had begun his career as a barrister , went into industry , and by the late eighties was working for the Bank of England . |
| 29 | She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge . |
| 30 | At the time Barnard was working for the National Computing Centre , a quasi-governmental organisation in Manchester . |