Example sentences of "[modal v] work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should work towards the production of a style manual for general use in stationery , signs , displays and ephemeral publications , and use a modified form of the ‘ Sibbaldia ’ logo on official stationery , livery on protective clothing , official vehicles and in other appropriate places . |
| 2 | This very continuity should work to the advantage of the regular US Tour competitors . |
| 3 | Furthermore , all three activities could and should work to the advantage of environmental conservation by encouraging people into new landscapes and thus heightening their environmental awareness so that they themselves become part of the environmental protection movement . |
| 4 | The governors have power to decide the school 's complement — that is , how many people should work at the school and at what level . |
| 5 | This done , you should work around the area you guess to be the confines of the warren system . |
| 6 | This will normally mean that they must work for the company full-time . |
| 7 | He 'd been helping his wife to , she must work for the council and he 'd been helping her and he said er the matron at Comfort House had asked and he , and he 'd noticed Jim 's name on when he delivered ours so he knew where they could , he 'd take them . |
| 8 | The latter , stripped of their powers to assume parental rights or to demand notice of a child 's removal from ‘ accommodation ’ , must work on the basis of negotiation and voluntary agreement . |
| 9 | Out of this fraught legal and financial tangle the bureau worker must work with the client to create order and stability . |
| 10 | The others must work outside the project . |
| 11 | And if in Amantani there is a season without rain , he also must work in the leather trade in Lima for three or four months to support his family . |
| 12 | On the other hand , successful communication must work within the framework of the receiver 's existing knowledge ; it must not make too many demands . |
| 13 | Enforcing rules when caught between opposing public constituencies causes difficulties for agencies which must work within the framework of an ostensibly activist legal mandate . |
| 14 | That might work with the philosophe who put together the doctrine in the first place but it is unlikely to work with a follower who is able to live with all sons of inconsistencies so long as a few slogans can be repeated again and again . |
| 15 | They might work in the graduate school of a good American university , where a variety of methods already abounds . |
| 16 | If I do n't work during the week for a day , then I 'll work at the weekend . |
| 17 | If I do n't work during the week for a day , then I 'll work at the weekend . |
| 18 | And usually you 'll work with the angle that you 've been given rather |
| 19 | This kind of procedure may work with the majority but the marvellous thing about human beings is that there are always some not subdued . |
| 20 | In the case of an article written by five authors , for example , the availability of one extra slot may work to the advantage of a colleague whose goodwill is valued but whose involvement with the project had been only marginal ; such circumstances may help create a dip in the number of articles with five authors ( figs 2 and 4 ) which further accentuates the peak at six authors . |
| 21 | In other words , the system of competitive vote bidding acts like a ratchet encouraging ever more government services at the same time as it penalises a government prepared to take " tough " decisions that may hit particular interests in the short run even though these decisions may work to the advantage of all in the longer run . |
| 22 | The only area where this may work to the buyer 's detriment is in the area of the product lifetime . |
| 23 | In the case of a tenant 's notice a requirement that rent be apportioned may work to the prejudice of the landlord since he will need time to arrange a reletting. ( c ) Circumstances of exercise It is rare nowadays for the landlord to have an unrestricted power to determine a lease . |
| 24 | Tighter control of the bureaucracy by one group of politicians may work to the disadvantage of others . |
| 25 | Commercially , such a rent review clause may work to the disadvantage of either party . |
| 26 | Second , the information requirements are considerable and the time taken assembling data may work against the efficiency that the organisation is trying to achieve . |
| 27 | What toys the daily reading of such a book may work in the will of a young gentleman , or a young maid … wise men can judge and honest men do pity . |
| 28 | Of course while this point may work in the tenant 's favour in a falling market , it is just as likely to work in the landlord 's favour in a rising market . |
| 29 | He 'd asked if he could work on the girl , but Frick had refused . |
| 30 | But it was as much a legal body as a spiritual one , although occasionally this could work for the individual 's unexpected benefit as in the laws relating to sanctuary or ‘ abjuring the realm ’ . |