Example sentences of "[adv] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed that it was necessary to combine the best in local community action and larger social concerns ; to bring the fragments of social and community action together , e.g. community groups , trade unions , women 's groups , etc. to work towards a vision of a new society based on a radical analysis of existing structures and the lessons and aspirations of the men and women attempting to create new structures at local level ; to stress objectives and content in education as well as methods and process . |
| 2 | He went on to work as a designer and translator for an Austrian publisher , where the manager , Otto Preminger ( later a celebrated film director ) introduced him to Max Reinhardt . |
| 3 | He went on to work in a hospital ship in the Mediterranean — a year which he later described as being one of the most enjoyable of his life . |
| 4 | She had encouraged him rather to work as a translator , this seemed to be a safer activity . |
| 5 | you ca n't settle down to work on a project even though it interests you |
| 6 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |
| 7 | Unless you are fortunate enough to work for a company that recognises this need , there are basically two options available for that initial promotion . |
| 8 | Although these are specialised positions , each team member needs to be flexible enough to work in a number of projects in different areas . |
| 9 | In the " proximity talks " the two leaders were brought together to work towards a framework agreement in line with UN Security Council Resolution 750 of April 1992 [ see p. 38873 ; for talks in June see p. 38980 ] . |
| 10 | The whole Wolfchild Red Indian routine can only work as a fantasy role if the music transcends the mundane and enables the listener to bliss out on that alone , and if the singer thinks he 's Geronimo , fine , after all we 're quite prepared to accept Black Francis as having some handle on space travel , David Bowie as an alien , Rock Messiah human being and Bono as a cowboy bluesman . |
| 11 | The exploitation of ethnicity may perhaps work as a form of primitive accumulation of cultural capital , but it does nothing to enlarge the audience or scope of such work , which is why most artists and writers of any stature have rejected this appellation , even if they have benefited indirectly from it . |
| 12 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 13 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 14 | Do not wait until it is clogged with fish waste and debris and therefore only working at a fraction of its efficiency . |
| 15 | Perhaps working in a place like this was n't such a bad idea after all . |
| 16 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 17 | Others find it best to work in a revision group . |
| 18 | We have seen the ways in which Sartre 's Critique shows how totalization can not work without a movement of self-transcendence , a repeated interpolation of an excess beyond the totality which paradoxically then means that the totality can no longer be a totality . |
| 19 | This paradigm does not work with a radio talk in the morning . |
| 20 | Either way , they would see no increase in their direct taxes under Labour , provided they do not work for a living . |
| 21 | Ron , of Gnosall , Staffs , who can not work as a gardener because of a back injury , will now get £81.88 a week . |
| 22 | I can not work as a scribe , and I am beginning to enjoy being free . |
| 23 | They would probably not work as a team again , and certainly it would be many months before the girl , on any pretext , work or vacation , was permitted to leave the country . |
| 24 | Managers who do not work as a team and provide support for each other and their staff can not hope to succeed at times of staff shortage . |
| 25 | But Cavalli did not work to a formula . |
| 26 | By June he had tried seven different prospective designers without finding one who could give him what he wanted , but was emphatic that he could not work at a distance with Hanns or other Johannesburg artists , ‘ so that 's that ’ . |
| 27 | MC do not work on a contingency fee basis . |
| 28 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |
| 29 | The two girls , it transpired , did not work in a cabaret but assisted at a gambling salon . |
| 30 | ‘ Do not work in a hurry … do nothing for nothing , and see that you get paid for everything . ’ |