Example sentences of "[unc] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A particularly vexing category was the " turnover " : the apprentice who had served most of his time but was not yet a journeyman , and who was snapped up by employers to do a man 's work at a boy 's pay . |
| 2 | Last weekend White publicly criticised Boaz 's work at a conference on locomotion in Berkeley , California , organised by the Institute of Human Origins . |
| 3 | There are two exhibitions of Graham Sutherland 's work as a printmaker . |
| 4 | Indeed Krashen 's work as a whole reveals very little in the way of appraisal as I have defined the concept : ideas are hurried through the processes of interpretation and evaluation and made operational as rapidly as possible . |
| 5 | Finally , the view of style as manner : I mean by ‘ manner ’ the way in which a text , or an author 's work as a whole , or the work of a group of writers , or even a period of literature , may be distinguished by typical patterns of language-use , a repeated preference , for instance , for a certain kind of construction or a certain class of word . |
| 6 | In practice , you might , for instance : ( a ) Broaden your essay 's conclusions , so that they could in principle be applied to other books , or an author 's work as a whole . |
| 7 | Again , Jeremiah was doing the Lord 's work as a servant ; in the passage we heard a few moments ago , he expressed his dismay at the manner in which he was being treated by the people . |
| 8 | I expect that I shall think of the term 's work as a preparation for the second teaching practice . |
| 9 | When even the milkmen and the postmen are not on the streets , he sets off for his daily three hour run , then swims for an hour before finally starting his day 's work as a leather goods salesman . |
| 10 | When in 1918 the party needed a social programme for negotiations with Lloyd George , it was to the work of the USRC that they turned ; in 1922 Griffith-Boscawen was able as Minister of Health to do some of the things he had attempted in 1912 ; much of Neville Chamberlain 's work as a reformer of the Poor Law was presaged by a USRC report of 1913 written by Hills . |
| 11 | This amplification , orchestrated by Giuseppe Pavanello and Giandomenico Romanelli , has produced an extraordinary opportunity to see Canova 's work as a sculptor in the round . |
| 12 | Taken together with his absences for reasons of health , Ewing 's work as a bishop was not successful . |
| 13 | Flowers and plants are very much a part of Tricia 's work as a designer of beautiful fabrics and wallcoverings and over the years her job and her hobby have become complementary to one another . |
| 14 | The same issue featured Bradley Martin — as Hopkins tended to byline himself when writing on drugs — noting the News of the World 's ‘ sensational splurge on drugs and the pop world ’ , the harmful effect the attack had had on Nuttall 's work as a teacher , and Miles 's self-proclaimed lack of enthusiasm for LSD . |
| 15 | Two small tank locomotives were being prepared for the weekend 's work amidst a scene of almost dereliction . |
| 16 | That 's not a bad day 's work for a lad , I 'd say . ’ |
| 17 | Part of this is Patrick Dainty 's work on a technology called remote plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition ( RPECVD ) . |
| 18 | At all times it was possible to listen in on interviews and to monitor the interviewer 's work on a control screen . |
| 19 | Blood flows within the town ; Raymond 's work on a collection of the President 's speeches , which could restore him to favour , languishes . |
| 20 | This was a development which of course took place in Picasso 's work over a period of many months . |
| 21 | When was the last time you saw a show of William Blake 's work in a gallery ? |
| 22 | houses in them days , if you worked on a p work on a place , you had to live on a place , you see , if you got the sack you had to get out of 'em . |
| 23 | In a related field , the profession 's Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau recently published the results of several years ' work on a study of claim rates under permanent health insurance contracts . |
| 24 | The woman who let Britain slide into the worst depression since the 30s was paid £250,000 last week for just three days ' work on a lecture tour . |
| 25 | The dummy took three weeks ' work by a team of volunteers , mostly part-time and helping when they could . |
| 26 | The Green Form scheme will provide two hours ' work by a solicitor on a case ( more with an extension ) , but the solicitor can not recover the cost of appearing before a tribunal to argue a case under this component of legal aid . |