Example sentences of "[adj] to work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me say I believed that the wrongs of women were interconnected with and subsidiary to the wrongs of man ; that to work for the revolution was to work , indirectly , for women . |
| 2 | With such an Army Iran can resist Communist pressures and build the country into a showcase to so that other peoples can see that it is possible to work with the West and get more effective support than countries such as Egypt receive . " |
| 3 | Following this example through shows that , when solving small examples by hand , it is usually easier to work with the tree rather than the function P defining it . |
| 4 | You will find it much easier to work with the door removed and held firm in some form of vice . |
| 5 | Division : You can use a similar method for dividing by 50 because it is always easier to work with the number two . |
| 6 | Sir Kenneth 's rules were a bit daft in places and far too detailed to work without the risk of continual recourse to the courts . |
| 7 | Even in death he is willing to work at the vine ( the biblical symbol of the Chosen People ) , suggesting in ‘ Credo ’ that the work , however unlikely it appears , is going on ; ‘ the holy promised land ’ is being peopled : ‘ the feet of fierce or humble priests trample out the green ’ ; he among them , despite putative evidence to the contrary . |
| 8 | He tends to be less radical and confrontational than the most nationally prominent black politician , the Rev Jesse Jackson , and more willing to work with the establishment to achieve his goals . |
| 9 | Students have to be willing to work under the direction of the lecturer . |
| 10 | The village chiefs ask their people if they are willing to work on the water projects , and once agreed a project committee is set up carrying the authority of all involved . |
| 11 | Against this background of a wife who was willing to work on the market , the choice to work at home must involve a higher ( or at least as high a ) level of utility . |
| 12 | It was clear to the classical writers that there were tens of thousands of workers who were unemployed and who were prepared to work at the going ( real or money ) wage rate . |
| 13 | Environmentalist groups have criticised the plan , because it still allows some logging in ancient forests , but say they are prepared to work with the Administration to improve it . |
| 14 | Such bodies are set up outside government partly so that they can attract skilled personnel who might not be prepared to work for the core of government ; so that they can develop a high level of expertise in the area they are responsible for ; and so that they can develop policy in an atmosphere divorced from direct party political pressures . |
| 15 | He was used to working with crews who knew him and who , like his casts , were prepared to work round the clock to achieve the effects he desired . |
| 16 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 17 | You both need to do this to work at the principle of conciliation . |
| 18 | Allow this to work on the cooking residues for 20 minutes and then switch the combi-steamer onto the steam mode for 10-–15 minutes . |
| 19 | This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible . |
| 20 | ‘ No , you 're not , you 're exhausted , and you are n't fit to work at the moment . |
| 21 | It is not natural to work through the night shift , I 've worked it , there is no way of starting a week without your Er I 've slept a night before , somewhere at the weekend , when the day comes , but you 've got to go the next night to work . |
| 22 | Of course while this point may work in the tenant 's favour in a falling market , it is just as likely to work in the landlord 's favour in a rising market . |
| 23 | ‘ Subliminal ’ advertising , which was most publicly ‘ exposed ’ in Vance Packard 's The Hidden Persuaders , is advertising that is supposed to work below the threshold of consciousness : a message flashed for a fraction of a second on a cinema screen was , it was alleged , able to increase sales of popcorn very significantly , even though no one in the audience could have taken it in — or , indeed , remembered it . |
| 24 | How such market forces are supposed to work in the field of education is far from clear . |
| 25 | On a smaller scale I often find it better to work on the floor . |
| 26 | Although the book is claimed to be suitable for self-study , students would probably find it more useful to work through the material with a teacher . |
| 27 | also , I was able to work at the painting knowing I could obliterate any unwanted areas ; this gave me the freedom I needed . |
| 28 | This protects the public gaze from the true story and means that for a decade the authorities have been able to work on the assumption that what the eye does n't see the heart wo n't grieve over . |
| 29 | The British defence chiefs also felt able to work on the assumption that the USSR would not feel strong enough to risk war for several more years . |
| 30 | The two firms are said to have indicated to NEFMA they would be able to work on the basis of Ferranti using a Telefunken-made data processor in its ECR-90 radar , he said . |