Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population . |
| 2 | Past the farm where the short-term prisoners work under the guard of rifles and dogs , past the fields where beet and potato sprout from the long-used soil . |
| 3 | ‘ In cases of multiple debt , we reckon on 12 hours to work through the inquiry , ’ she added . |
| 4 | Some researchers working on the removal and examination of fertilized cells have been able to reject those which were clearly mongoloid , only replacing those known to be able to produce normal infants . |
| 5 | Some journalists work for the paper read by the people who run the country ( The Times ) . |
| 6 | Some journalists work for the paper read by the people who think they run the country ( The Telegraph ) . |
| 7 | Some journalists work for the paper read by the people who want to run the country ( The Mail/The Express ) . |
| 8 | Some journalists work for the paper whose readers do n't care who runs the country so long as the girl on page three is well endowed ( The Sun ) . |
| 9 | And some journalists work for the paper read by the people who think this country should be run by another country ( The Morning Star ) . |
| 10 | Lithographic duplicators work on the principle that oil and water do not mix . |
| 11 | hopefully to a large degree there will be money coming inwards to the Local Authority , the Local Highway Authority in the future , the compliments of the inspection of public utilities works on the acceptance thereof , er so there will be sort of additional income to help erm finance any additional starting resources and required to , erm |
| 12 | Pummel flabby thighs working from the knees towards your hips . |
| 13 | By October , BP will have 12 rigs working in the southern sector which will keep the Yarmouth base busy ! |
| 14 | On leaving school , she spent a few years working in the British Transport Police . |
| 15 | Some Palestinians worked with the resistance ; one woman was tortured and killed for luring Iraqi officers into places where hit-teams could attack them . |
| 16 | So , with none of his rearguard involved internationally , Howard Wilkinson , who has constantly highlighted the shortcomings of a congested fixture list , had the luxury of 11 free days to work on the problem . |
| 17 | Another way of measuring external reliability is to compare the scores obtained by different testers working with the same group of children . |
| 18 | The inadequacies of this egalitarian approach lead some lesbian psychologists to work outside the Division of the Psychology of Women and the AWP , in feminist and lesbian feminist organizations which grant sexuality more significance . |
| 19 | ‘ I spent 12 years working in the NHS and I did n't come into politics to privatise it . ’ |
| 20 | The UK had no direct representation in Tripoli , although two British officials worked at the Italian embassy to represent British interests . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He ducked down the back stairs — glad , for once , that there were so few lights working along the landings — as his visitors strode towards the front . |
| 23 | Yet it is interesting to read another speech , reluctantly dropped very late in the play 's completion , which both showed Christianity in some ways working with the savage world , and looked back with a different point of view to the earlier worship of a human god in the unpublished ‘ Exequy ’ poem in the Waste Land manuscripts . |
| 24 | I got involved with agencies who specialise in placing children who were difficult to place , be it handicapped , black or of the wrong age , and that led to my doing a lot of work taking photographs for a magazine published by the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering and various publicity and public relations work for the Catholic Children 's Society . |
| 25 | For the near future public relations work in the consumer field is apt to continue to be the major area for in-take of new employees . |
| 26 | There are about 300 undergraduates working in the School and some 45 research students . |
| 27 | The other Nobel prizes for 1991 were announced by the relevant Swedish academies between Oct. 3 and Oct. 16 : ( i ) Literature — Nadine Gordimer , the South African novelist whose " magnificent epic writing " had as its central theme the consequences of apartheid ; ( ii ) Medicine — Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann , German scientists working on the function of single ion channels in cell physiology ; ( iii ) Economics — Ronald Coase , the veteran UK-born member of the Chicago school and theorist of transaction costs and property rights , relevant to how buyers and sellers are brought together in the free market ; ( iv ) Physics — Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , the French scientist , for his work on applying the study of order and behavioural similarities in molecules to a range of complex materials ; and ( v ) Chemistry — Richard R. Ernst , the Swiss researcher , for contributions to high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) spectroscopy . |
| 28 | Some Latin American social scientists working on the topic have suggested a two-stage process , in which the penetration of capitalism initially leads to an increase in wage-earning workers , but this is followed by a stage of the intensification of capitalism , characterised by deproletarianisation and semi-proletarianisation ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) . |
| 29 | Now he was ready to see daily miracles wrought by the relics of St Stephen , recently discovered and brought to Africa , and to make use of them in his pastoral work among his congregations . |
| 30 | 140 civilians work at the base and those who ca n't be transferred to other defence jobs will be made redundant . |