Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] work [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exploitation of ethnicity may perhaps work as a form of primitive accumulation of cultural capital , but it does nothing to enlarge the audience or scope of such work , which is why most artists and writers of any stature have rejected this appellation , even if they have benefited indirectly from it . |
| 2 | To achieve profound change , women must necessarily work within the existing structure . |
| 3 | Above the level of the very poor , notions of respectability acted as a curb on abusive or violent behaviour within the family and increasingly dictated that married women should not work outside the home . |
| 4 | Whether the diversity depicted above is reflected in the presence of two tests , rational basis and rightness , or whether we should simply work through the former is largely a matter of semantics . |
| 5 | There is no reason why the system should n't work with an IBM PC , as long as you have a SCSI card , a 24-bit colour card and monitor , an external removable 44Mb disk drive and appropriate software , such as Aldus Photostyler . |
| 6 | In West Germany , every residential facility has to have a residents ' committee by law — this may not work in every case , but it speaks of a different attitude to the residents themselves . |
| 7 | First , what works well during research may not work in the rough-and-tumble commercial world . |
| 8 | But like everything else they 'll only work with the cooperations of of the of the er motoring public . |
| 9 | One hundred erm maybe it 'll only work with the times , generally on scientific ones , they do n't use the percent |
| 10 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll never work for the government again . |
| 12 | If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction . |
| 13 | But I 'll tell you this , ’ she glared at him , her heart pounding , ‘ I 'd rather work around the clock to get the money back to my father in time than spend one minute longer than I have to with a selfish , bad-tempered misery who was obviously born an expert at everything . ’ |
| 14 | Well , I 'd rather work in a shop , among people . ’ |
| 15 | Cos I do n't wan na work in places like that , I 'd rather work in a quiet . |
| 16 | I 'd rather work in a place like that , where we can face problems and move them on and develop things carefully , than to work in some places in the country where things are so far off agenda , as it were , as to be impossible . |
| 17 | But Miss could only work for the doctors . |
| 18 | By June he had tried seven different prospective designers without finding one who could give him what he wanted , but was emphatic that he could not work at a distance with Hanns or other Johannesburg artists , ‘ so that 's that ’ . |
| 19 | Music hall had shown Eliot that the chorus of the Greek drama in whose primitive origins he had exhibited such interest , could still work on the modern stage . |
| 20 | She was built to keep the docks at Gloucester and Sharpness free from silt but could also work in the River Severn outside Sharpness Lock and on the west bank of the river at Lydney docks . |
| 21 | You could n't work with the lights you see |
| 22 | erm Yes , now if we get to about half way down there 's a plus in the margin , and the third line in the bracket below that plus , more or less on a level with a three dot , and a little bit below , it says , William , I think it 's Wilkinson , a minister , curate of St Ebbe 's Parish , ‘ his answer that he must attend the burials and christenings ’ , so obviously he could n't work on the fortifications . |
| 23 | She was a big , bosomy woman who could n't work without a box of biscuits on the desk beside her , and Sarella could hear her now , crunching her way through them . |
| 24 | but thing is there 's a lot lot of like Lee 's friends and that and they say well I could n't work in a shoe shop and I would n't work in a , and I say why ? |
| 25 | I could n't work in a car factory |
| 26 | You could n't work in the quarry , you could n't go through the gate in the quarry without being a union man , in the old days there . |
| 27 | Eighteen years later Jean Genet commented that he could see the revolution could n't work after a visit to the Odeon , occupied by students and workers . |
| 28 | At the same time , Nos. 1E , 2E and 3E , were taken out of service for a short time , to receive a small modification — they were fitted with spare sets of track brake equipment , so that they could subsequently work to the Crystal Palace . |
| 29 | I could never work with a man like that and I told him so . |
| 30 | The growth of private home-ownership and car-ownership , reduction in the number of voters dependent on council housing , expansion of self-employment ( up from 1.9 million to 3 million between 1979 and 1989 ) and of employment in the private sector , and a fall in the public-sector employment , may also work against the party . |