Example sentences of "[verb] work for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1953 , the British National Conference on Social Work warned of the problems of abrupt retirement , while throughout the decade old people 's welfare committees acted to find work for the elderly . |
| 2 | The pressure to find work for the 2260 staff at ISPRA is intense because of a commitment by research ministers to keep on all of ISPRA 's nuclear scientists — even though their biggest project , Super-SARA , has been abandoned . |
| 3 | Voluntary contributions to the ‘ poor boxes ’ in the parish churches proved less and less adequate to maintain those in need , and from time to time a tax , or rate , was levied on all the property in the parish ; the proceeds were then used by the churchwardens and by ‘ overseers of the poor ’ to support the old , the sick and orphans , to provide work for the able-bodied poor , and accommodation for the homeless . |
| 4 | For individuals the centre offers the opportunity to develop personal skills and the possibility of submitting work for a higher degree or DBA of Brunel University , based on either full-time or part-time study and PhD or MPhil by full-time study . |
| 5 | For individuals the centre offers the opportunity to develop personal skills and the possibility of submitting work for a higher degree , DBA , PhD or MPhil of Brunel University . |
| 6 | They advocated a less sectarian approach to relations with the Labour Party , favouring work for a third Labour Government , rather than the virtually syndicalist policy being put forward by the ILP . |
| 7 | They may also know of people seeking work for a few hours or days per week , perhaps to help out with the garden , or heavier household tasks , or shopping . |
| 8 | The laboratory undertakes work for a wide range of external customers , this includes calibrations in the fields of , temperature , pressure , electrical and electronic measurements . |
| 9 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 10 | The office on G floor prepares work for the Conservation Workshop , and the level 7 office processes work for Sighthill Bindery . |
| 11 | Percy Wyndham Lewis [ q.v. ] visited Bomberg at his Tenter Buildings studio in 1912 , and in 1913 he travelled to Paris with ( Sir ) Jacob Epstein [ q.v. ] to select work for the Jewish section of an important exhibition of ‘ Twentieth Century Art ’ at the Whitechapel Art Gallery ( 1914 ) . |
| 12 | The first was William Purser who over twenty-five years had built up the Delta mission , originated work for the blind , organised teacher-training and supervised the small theological school of the diocese . |
| 13 | A new leaflet aimed at young people starting work for the first time has been produced by the Inland Revenue . |
| 14 | It had been thrilling at first to start work for a real knight and his lady and to live in this tall mansion with its halls and parlours , its tapestries and suits of armour . |
| 15 | About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings . |
| 16 | Those people who have the record sheets from last week , ten , ten people that are doing work for the British National Corpus . |
| 17 | I er , in fact , we , yeah , we just had a problem yesterday , we started work for the Royal Scotsman and erm well we started work for them , like last year and we 've been doing jobs |
| 18 | ‘ I really like and can recommend work for the Inland Revenue ’ . |
| 19 | Undertaking work for an overseas office |
| 20 | We will turn later to the question of finding work for the unemployed able-bodied . |
| 21 | Local children were very keen to get work for the long season at Blackpool . |
| 22 | This enabled some major figures to show work for the first time . |
| 23 | It was in their interests to make work for the dental profession and sell vitamin C , not to let it get about that simply by keeping their hands where they ought to be young people could have healthy teeth and gums for life . |