Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [adj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 3 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 4 | Keeping up the good work , they are now holding meetings and demonstrations every six weeks to motivate young people coming into the industry . |
| 5 | In sardonic undertones , the guide- lines suggest ‘ the part-timer is unlikely to be happy given just the undesirable work that no one else wants to do ’ and ‘ should not be made to feel obliged to work extra hours . ’ |
| 6 | Do carry on the good work , in September with encouragement to all new people in your class , and in January with the renewal of your own membership . |
| 7 | ‘ In the past , I 've used researchers to dig around in libraries , but I 've always done all the hard work myself , and certainly all the major interviews . |
| 8 | Here 's a selection : Mrs F. from near Darlington writes : ‘ I would like to have Jane Fonda 's thighs and tum because she 's done all the hard work . |
| 9 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
| 10 | Liverpool 's third came from Phil Boersma near the end , after Kevin Keegan had done all the hard work . |
| 11 | Moving on from the , the dredger back to when you were a stevedore you used to sort out the different work for the , for the men , where did you used to congregate first thing in the morning ? |
| 12 | If these enhancements and/or modifications are recognized to be universally applicable , will carry out the necessary work and will bear the cost of this . |
| 13 | Please do keep up the good work . |
| 14 | However , Wanderers are true amateurs on the field and will no doubt battle until they give up , so let's hope Athletico can keep up the good work and send them home with three lost points and the Samaritans ’ telephone number . |
| 15 | I 'll try and keep up the good work . ’ |
| 16 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |
| 17 | Eventually a time of fish will be landed so the intricate work of life moves itself into the most unlikely corners of our power stations . |
| 18 | The evolution of huge but cheap storage capacities in computers , accessible instantaneously , could and probably will revolutionise both the professional work and financial management methods of surveying firms in the years to come . |
| 19 | Agreements or understandings could cover price-fixing and/or sharing out the available work without resorting to competition ( which would have resulted in lower prices ) . |
| 20 | Volunteers should be able to carry out the minimal work involved , though some dioceses seem curiously reluctant to accept offers of help of this kind . |
| 21 | The long period of housing the stock meant that the farmer was able to carry out the necessary work in the mornings and evenings . |
| 22 | The employer , or the architect on his behalf , for certain sections of a contract may provide a list , in or attached to the contract bills , of at least three sub-contractors from which the builder must select one able and willing to carry out the respective work . |
| 23 | Within each specialised task there were some miners more willing and more able than others to carry out the specialised work . |
| 24 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
| 25 | This is the reason that the ‘ equal-value amendment ’ was passed , which means that a woman seeking equal pay can compare herself with a man doing work of similar value , and not the more stringent condition of a man who is actually doing exactly the same work . |
| 26 | What a lack of self-confidence this implies : the present wants both to patronise the past by adjudicating on its political acceptability , and also to be flattered by it , to be patted on the back and told to keep up the good work . |
| 27 | We hope you find the current issue still of interest and we plan to keep up the good work during the coming year seeking out happenings/events/ stories to retell for you , but as it is your newspaper do contact us with your own ideas and suggestions at any time . |
| 28 | That kind of thing irked her , as did the difference in pay between women and men for doing practically the same work . |
| 29 | Outside London , there has also been a trend towards larger practices seeking to soak up the commercial work which remains in the provincial cities of England and Wales . |
| 30 | This book is designed to help you cut out the hard work , and instead redirect your energies into formulating a worthwhile , personally relevant and practical route into the kind of nursing which appeals to you or suits you best at this particular stage in your career . |