Example sentences of "[adv] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ We only work to the laws which are enforced and are made by Parliament . ’ |
| 32 | Markets only work at the cost of perennial insecurity for producers . |
| 33 | So work at the digging . |
| 34 | As autumn slipped gradually into winter so work on the farm slowed down . |
| 35 | This obviously works in the favour of RUN FOR FREE , who already looked a worthy favourite judged on his 12-length demolition of stable companion Miinnehoma here three weeks ago . |
| 36 | well she was n't , she was according to her she , she was allowed to use pity , because she , she could , I said to Derek could have been so nice you and her , a little firm together working for the good of the two of you |
| 37 | Judging by the enthusiasm of the men , women and children who all work on the dam and piped-water project , he has made a start . |
| 38 | ROSALIND BRUNT , Tessa Perkins and Karen Jones , who all work in the Centre for Popular Culture at Sheffield City Polytechnic , talk about women both sides of the screen . |
| 39 | What emerges from these scantily recorded years is that by the time of the first minuted meeting , in January 1907 , and which was probably held in the manager 's office at the Henley branch of Reading bankers , J. and C. Simonds , much work towards the Club 's formation had already been accomplished . |
| 40 | Groups were created by political or material need , and once created , granted each other quasi-familial status ( complete , for literate societies , with swiftly constructed genealogies ; thus , the descendants of the prophet in Islam have down the ages offered much work for the imagination and ingenuity of the genealogical archivists ) . |
| 41 | Highlights have been the visit of Mr J. Scott Morgan with his book on the Bishop 's Castle Railway , and much work behind the scenes in connection with the proposed Museum . |
| 42 | I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think . |
| 43 | The model only works at the level of the textbook example , the single isolated sentence . |
| 44 | This at least allows you to make the best of poor job ; a package which only works at the screen resolution could be a fifth the quality , or worse . |
| 45 | However , the WPS only works with the HP LaserJet II or IIIs . |
| 46 | ‘ The Power only works near the Wyrmberg . |
| 47 | It only works in the direction in which it 's throwing the ions . |
| 48 | Packages like Omicron 's XIS and Multisoft Premier Plus offer multicurrency facilities in all of their accounting and distribution ledgers , whereas the Sage Sovereign general ledger only works in the user 's chosen base currency , although its sales and purchase ledgers are multicurrency . |
| 49 | In a couple of landscapes executed at Carrières Saint-Denis , where he had spent a week or so working in the company of Derain , late in the autumn of 1909 , Braque had already begun to transform the subtlety and observational quality of the Roche Guyon landscapes into tighter , more arbitrary compositions , reminiscent in the emphasis on the vertical and horizontal structure broken by forty-five degree diagonals ( and also in colour , which is once again darker and harsher ) of the Maisons à Estaque . |
| 50 | ‘ But that 's enough work for the evening , Watson . |
| 51 | Gradually other women finished the insides of their houses and came outside to work in the sunlight . |
| 52 | The most obvious conclusion to draw here once again goes back to women 's domestic role , and in particular their tendency not to work outside the home , or to work part time , or to work in isolation ( home working , cleaning and so on ) . |
| 53 | The women 's movement was maturing too , as it slowly swung back to the acceptability of some women choosing not to work outside the home . |
| 54 | But in Lyons v. Wilkins the Court of Appeal had decided against the officers of a trade union who , having ordered a strike against the plaintiffs and against S ( who made goods for the plaintiffs only ) , organized pickets to seek to persuade work-people not to work for the plaintiffs . |
| 55 | Protestors fighting plans to open a clinic for sex offenders have persuaded contractors not to work on the building . |
| 56 | He had opposed it along with the rest of the General Advisory Committee but it was no clear-cut moral stand : ‘ I never urged anyone not to work on the hydrogen bomb project , ’ he told the inquiry . |
| 57 | An example of the first type is found in Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 where the defendant was bound for seven years after employment not to work in the UK or Ireland in the sale or manufacture of pulley blocks , hand overhead runways , electric overhead runways or hand overhead travelling cranes . |
| 58 | The idea was that the pupils would just work through the sheets , working out the answers . |
| 59 | Which would in any case , cease , she thought , if she could no longer work for the Carsons . |
| 60 | For over two years the ILP had been moving towards a position where it could no longer work within the limitations of Parliamentary discipline and electoral necessity . |