Example sentences of "[modal v] work for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Dr. Lorrimer — he 's the Principal Scientific Officer in charge of the Biology Department — says that I ought to work for an A-level subject and try for a job as an Assistant Scientific Officer . |
| 2 | Occasionally I even recommend a bank if you should work for a bank you can get the job done for practically nothing I understand and it might be worthwhile . |
| 3 | I should work for the B B C should n't I as a news reporter |
| 4 | In the 20 negotiating days that remain before Maastricht , the Prime Minister must work for a treaty that will serve the best interests of Britain , and in doing so serve the wider interests of the Community . |
| 5 | This will normally mean that they must work for the company full-time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So that 'll work for every triangle . |
| 8 | It 'll work for a lot of them . |
| 9 | That may work for a lottery system where the buyer buys the fun of expectation but it does not — or should not — apply to opportunities . |
| 10 | Slipping between the pages of a magazine may work for a sachet of shampoo or for a soup mix , but the product can very easily slip out again and the end purchaser may not receive the sample . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | I used to work for a furniture and I always had the King 's Lynn I think was always easier |
| 13 | And Ray er Mr from Nottingham says , I used to work for a circus , I 'm an animal lover and all the animals I saw were treated very well . |
| 14 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 15 | Karen Hamilton used to work for a community video workshop on the Isle of Dogs and is now a freelance director . |
| 16 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 17 | ‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |
| 20 | Cos , you used to work for the castronery had to pay you see , not the firm . |
| 21 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 22 | There is a bar by the roadside , further on , and I 'll enquire there , as I think the landlady used to work for the Harvey-Beaumonts . |
| 23 | Harry , who used to work for the coal board , cites Graham Gooch as his favourite cricketer . |
| 24 | We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority . |
| 25 | He used to work for an outfit in the City called Even Rudergrams , but about a year ago the market fell right out of the bottom of the stripping kissogram girl ( or boy ) business , and the company packed up and moved into something else . |
| 26 | She recalled a promise made by Mr Major when he became Prime Minister : that he would work for a nation at ease with itself . |
| 27 | PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — The Czechoslovak dissident playwright Vaclav Havel said he had received a message from Poland 's Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , that he would work for the release of two Czechoslovak human rights campaigners , Jan Carnogursky and Miroslav Kusy . |
| 28 | Poland and the Soviet Union would work for the transformation of the existing bloc alliances into a new system of collective European security . |
| 29 | It was agreed that the Georgian and Russian governments , together with the government of the North Ossetian autonomous republic ( inside the Russian Federation ) , would work for the resettlement of the tens of thousands of refugees displaced from South Ossetia by the conflict , and for the " restoration of the lawful local government bodies " . |
| 30 | During the election campaign the PCCh , which was not legalized , had announced on Nov. 9 , 1989 , that it would work for the victory of the presidential opposition candidate ; the former secretary-general of the PCCh , Luis Corvalán , who had returned to Chile on Oct. 12 after 13 years in exile , had made a similar declaration . |