Example sentences of "[noun] work on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleese enlisted Royal patronage to work on the top-selling environment number . |
| 2 | Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government . |
| 3 | We had spent nine months working on the first one ! |
| 4 | The cultivation of a distinctive ‘ voice ’ becomes the primary means whereby journalists working on the same material and increasingly reliant on the same basic sources seek to make a name for themselves . |
| 5 | Gregory works on the technical side , liaising with the sound and lighting people and drawing up set lists . |
| 6 | One of the most significant pioneer works on the British Flora was Cybele Britannica ( Watson , 1847–1859 ) ( Cannon , 1978 ) . |
| 7 | But it is damage wrought on the international competitiveness of American firms that really gives pause for thought . |
| 8 | Still to come is the awful Ghost Dad , basically another attempt to get Bill Cosby 's TV act to work on the big screen ( Bill plays a workaholic dad who , once dead , gets to spend more time with his family ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Shannon worked on the same production . ’ |
| 10 | Often the change in relationship that occurs as the parents work on the initial problem areas will generalize to other times of the day as the parent gains confidence and authority . |
| 11 | Returning to the site to work on the current $38 million contract is project director Ray Hodgson and Charles Stewart , construction manager . |
| 12 | In Southampton seamen aboard the Olympic jumped the gun by walking off the liner on 9 June following a stoppage by coal bunkerers and trimmers working on the same ship some days earlier . |
| 13 | To some of the Wimpey International team working on the Arab Potash Expansion plant it is a trip down memory lane . |
| 14 | ILE will be key in ensuring applications work on the new hardware , as well as providing performance enhancements , according to Haines . |
| 15 | The social panic surrounding the emergence of the Teddy Boys formed part of a much wider structure of feeling in 1950s Britain that the social changes wrought on the postwar world were destroying the old ‘ British way of life ’ and the former civility of the British people , and the Teds were understood to be symptomatic of these social alterations . |
| 16 | In the Solomon Islands , BGS geologists worked on the final phase of a six year mapping and mineral-exploration programme . |
| 17 | Fowler Class 4F No. 4422 at Cheddleton working on the short running line out of the station to the yard on the North Staffordshire Railway . |
| 18 | Ruby 's forte was getting her own photograph in the newspapers as she ‘ arrived at the police station to advise officers working on the such-and-such case ’ ; she was a popular television chat show guest ; and she made a decent living from writing about psychometry . |
| 19 | Or it was for the production crew working on the new children 's series The Borrowers . |
| 20 | Modern EEGs work on the same principle as the sprung mirror galvanometer — i.e. they are capable of measuring very fast changes in potential difference between the electrodes , but are relatively insensitive to slow changes . |
| 21 | Class S works on the clear principle that the inputs to A2 must both be driven to the same potential regardless of the input voltage to AL , ie , a virtual earth . |
| 22 | There are 400 commitments to take forward in the next year — from proposals for new standards for indoor air quality to work on the major international agreements which we hope will be signed at the earth summit in Brazil in June 1992 . |
| 23 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 24 | The fertile combination of theory and practice was his own , however , and he stood at the head of a great group of people working on the new phenomena of electricity . |
| 25 | ‘ Real collaboration only happens when people working on the same scale want to share the results of their work or are willing to put money in a pool for an expensive project ’ said another official . |
| 26 | At a time ( 1944 ) when one 's acquaintances were casually saying ‘ I 'm off to the US to work on the atomic bomb ’ ( surely a gross breach of security ) I think Bernal was carefully insulated . |
| 27 | In 1842 Buddicom went to France to work on the Paris–Rouen railway , which opened in 1843 , and was subsequently extended to Le Havre . |
| 28 | Because rhetoric works on the uncertain relations between signifiers and signifieds , associative feminist psychologists can never produce complete , authoritative accounts of gendered subjectivity . |
| 29 | They linked in , for example , with Aboriginal community leaders working on the National Aboriginal Health Strategy and with the housing and transport sector during the development of the healthy environment targets . |
| 30 | In the design , all Version 8 integer registers have been extended to 64-bits and all register commands work on the full 64-bit register , with full hardware support for 64-bit arithmetic , including multiplication and division . |