Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , being human , Huy regretted that he was now committed to working with the policeman . |
| 2 | Status : West European council for the co-ordination of regional defence policy , committed to working with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) . |
| 3 | Ideologically you may be committed to working for the NHS . |
| 4 | Farmers still have the problem of overcoming the stigma which all too often young people attach to working on the land . |
| 5 | If ( hopefully ) a solution is reached , the approach you adopted for working through the conflict is discussed . |
| 6 | What do you feel about working in the more modern style of play after your classical work with Stratford ? |
| 7 | While an experienced teacher might start by working with the whole class , drawing the more reluctant children into the drama through the excitement of the drama itself , full of dramatic tension , rich in imagery , there 's much to be said for working in the classroom with small groups . |
| 8 | Perhaps you could start off by telling me how you came into working in the lock trade . |
| 9 | The long years he spent absorbed in working for the abolition of untouchability and for the reconciliation of Muslim and Hindu , and in innumerable projects of village uplift , testified not only to his genuine goodness but also to the strength of his desire to make India , in the eyes of its alien rulers as well as his own , worthy to be free . |
| 10 | On Oct. 22 , Gorbachev and the leaders of the seven republics and Azerbaijan appealed to Ukraine to participate in working on the draft union treaty . |
| 11 | In the UK this is done by working with the Department of the Environment , HM Customs and Excise and the police to identify illegal trade and by actively encouraging and helping these bodies to increase their efforts to control such trade . |
| 12 | What do you remember about working in the pit ? |
| 13 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 14 | The arrest in October 1990 of Klaus Kuron , a senior West German intelligence officer accused of working for the East German State Security Service ( Stasi ) [ see p. 37828 ] , resulted in the arrests of many others accused of spying [ see p. 37828 ] . |
| 15 | But she had a stroke of good fortune when she inherited Penelope Beaton as her art teacher , a woman who laid aside ‘ the nice tidy little shell paintings ’ favoured by her predecessor in favour of teaching her class the pleasures to be had from working with the wonders of unpredictable watercolour . |
| 16 | Some of my best friends are civil servants , but what the hell do civil servants know about working in the mining industry ? |
| 17 | However , it agreed to a demand that Gdlyan and Ivanov be dismissed from working in the Procuracy , and in a resolution it warned them that their parliamentary immunity from prosecution could yet be withdrawn if they persisted in making " groundless " statements attacking the country 's leaders . |
| 18 | Ideally , we should feel as comfortable working with logged GNP per capita or life expectancy cubed as we feel about working with the raw numbers . |
| 19 | I believe in working towards the soul and spirit and beauty of things . |
| 20 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 21 | Olive 's surplus energy was spent in working for the Red Cross Society and forming a Girl Guide and Scout troop . |
| 22 | But in years 4 and 5 , the years that in other schools would be devoted to working for the GCSE with continuously assessed course-work , and when the TVEI scheme would also be introduced , we are told nothing whatever about examinations , only that the pupils will not have a wide choice of subjects . |
| 23 | Speaking to venture capitalists , accountants or lawyers about business plans or any other aspect of a buy-out does not amount to working for the business and if done in working hours , may be a breach of service contract . |
| 24 | When an old path runs across a valley bottom , you might also improve your chances of good finds by working off the beaten track . |
| 25 | that was something people had asked for working for the media here |
| 26 | 1760 " The Meeting Appoints that Six days in harvest be Imployed in Working on the Roads of Islay , … |
| 27 | 1760 " The Meeting Appoints that Six days in harvest be Imployed in Working on the Roads of Islay , … |
| 28 | Black employment at stations continued to decline until working on the railway was seen as detracting from black dignity . |
| 29 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 30 | It has to be acknowledged that there is some potential risk attaching to this , particularly where the buyers are covenanting with the sellers , but such risk appears to be part of the price that conveyancers are prepared to pay for working within the commercial pressures in the modern conveyancing market . |