Example sentences of "[noun] to work for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it dawned on her that she would have to earn her own living , she made up her mind to work for a diploma and then teach , and do some book-illustrating while she cast about for her real métier . |
| 2 | A lot of the members told me I was very good — I could pull clubs well and read greens — and I should try going to the Bing Crosby to work for a pro in the tournament . |
| 3 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 4 | SEOUL ( AFP ) — Pope John Paul II urged South Korea to work for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula peacefully and told the President , Roh Tae Woo , that the division symbolised suffering . |
| 5 | The need to work for a living is widely recognized , but the necessity to do so may have often been bitterly resented by many people over the years . |
| 6 | Finally , when they get back home once again they are ‘ in demand ’ , and it is in their nature to work for the family again and put their own wants or needs to the bottom of the pile ! |
| 7 | Once the usual carpetbaggers , liars and opportunists had been discounted , there was a heart-lifting common thread , a real desire to work for a paper promising to lift them out of the cynicism and virtual despair of the current newspaper scene . |
| 8 | For example , in attracting individuals to work for the firm , salary and other individual rewards are very important . |
| 9 | According to the Bangkok Post of Nov. 2 , more than 40 top-level officials , including Thongsouk Saisangkhi , had formed a Social Democrat Group to work for the introduction of a multi-party democracy . |
| 10 | And so the board agreed to send Oliver to work for the undertaker . |
| 11 | Two years ago Siu-ming left her job as a solicitor in Bath to work for the women 's workshop and train as a cabinetmaker at Brunel Technical College , on block release . |
| 12 | Plus , coming to Malta to work for a while had seemed the ideal opportunity , the perfect excuse quietly to check up on her mother , reassure herself that all was well … |
| 13 | Its authority to work for the removal of all barriers to the free movement of coal and steel rested on a wide array of actions , ranging from non-binding recommendations to binding decisions . |
| 14 | Fletcher moved to California to work for a US offshoot , International Motor Sales Inc . |
| 15 | Directly beneath the castle walls are the low , picturesque red roofs of the Italian quarter , where the masons and architects , artists and sculptors lodged when they first arrived from Italy to work for the kings of Bohemia . |
| 16 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ House ’ to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof : regrets that Her Majesty 's Government 's preoccupation with divisions in its own Party has meant that in the Inter-Governmental Conferences it has not taken the negotiating approach necessary to ensure that the United Kingdom exercises decisive influence on the future of the Community in ways which will help to advance the living and working standards of the people of this country in company with other peoples of Europe ; calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to work for an agreement at the European Council which ensures inclusion of the Social Charter , qualified majority voting on social and environmental matters , powers for the European Parliament to hold the Commission to account in ways that complement the role of national parliaments , decision-making at the level — local , regional , national or Community — where maximum democratic control is at all times exercised , foreign and security policy co-operation without the development of a European Community military role , widening of the Community as rapidly as practicable , co-operation to combat terrorism and other crime , and strengthened powers for ECOFIN as the politically responsible counterpart to any European Central Bank system ; and urges the Government to work to secure agreement to , and adopt policies for , high levels of employment , sustainable non-inflationary growth , balanced regional and national economic development and social cohesion , and for the fundamental reform of the CAP , in order to achieve real economic convergence in the years leading to economic and monetary union and a single currency as the essential foundation for those changes and to safeguard the long-term interests of the people of the United Kingdom . ' . |
| 17 | The first foreigner to work for the Treuhand is Barry Hylton Davies , a project manager with British construction company John Mowlem . |
| 18 | It was in this spirit that Bernard gave Jane , at eighteen , a professional 's Hasselblad camera and appointed her company photographer , the first of their children to work for the company . |
| 19 | This was the source of the basic duty to work for the preservation of social solidarity . |
| 20 | The important points which emerge from this case are that the employer will be able to rely on this part of the duty of fidelity if it can be shown that the employee works for a trade competitor in his spare time and : ( a ) knows of business secrets which may be of use to the competitor and/or ( b ) occupies a position which makes it expedient to recognise the existence of his duty to work for the employer alone . |
| 21 | Acquiring a good interview technique is as important for people employing one person to work directly for them as it is for those who will be taking on large numbers to work for a company . |
| 22 | Second , it is trying to persuade researchers that it is a good thing to work for the military . |
| 23 | Soviet spokesmen naturally used various arguments to encourage the neutralists to work for the dissolution of CENTO and SEATO , but Soviet leaders may have recognised already in the 1960s that these alliances were operating more effectively as political symbols than as military structures . |
| 24 | The functions , including in particular those to be carried out for the direct benefit of individual members of the public , such as social services , may require the borrowing of money and do require the recruiting and employment of many men and women to work for the council . |
| 25 | Next step was London to work for a shipping company and to play rugby for Blackheath . |
| 26 | Soviet and US experts , whose presence was thought to give momentum to the talks , were on hand to offer " technical " advice on the practicalities of a ceasefire [ for March agreement by the protagonists ' principal backers to work for a settlement to the civil war see p. 37365 ] . |
| 27 | But for an invitation from the Foreign Office to work for the World Bank in 1968 , his career could have been very different . |
| 28 | Richard was born in 1862 in Thwaite and when he was twenty years old or so he left Swaledale to work for a London publishing firm . |