Example sentences of "[noun pl] work [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OSI enables all the different manufacturers to work to a common set of standards . |
| 2 | In the last five years there has been a clear commitment from the Nursery/First , Middle and Comprehensive schools to work in a co-operative and supportive way , resulting in a pyramid of schools developing coherence and continuity for young people in the area from the ages 3–16 . |
| 3 | This is thanks to work by a corrective action team set up in January last year to investigate high and variable losses of caustic soda to the drain . |
| 4 | Party of baboons with typewriters working for a million years would n't come up with anything wise . ’ |
| 5 | Oblong pods work in a similar way but with two — and sometimes three — AA cells in each compartment . |
| 6 | No , I believe them to be spies working for a rival power aware of my presence in London and suspicious of my intentions . |
| 7 | All organizations work on a carrot-and-stick policy . |
| 8 | Stoddard Templeton designers work with a wide range of colours , shading from the most delicate of pastels , through subtle neutrals , to the rich and glowing hues of scarlet , blue and gold . |
| 9 | He knew what happened to men and women whose notion of themselves had become degraded ; he 'd seen how traitors worked with a special spite , with a fury that was reserved for themselves as they twisted the knife in the wound . |
| 10 | Hence , molecular associations that give rise to large exothermicities are also associated with large adverse entropy changes , and the two effects work in a compensatory manner [ 6 ] . |
| 11 | Yesterday you mentioned that your contractors work to a pre-arranged schedule and it seems possible that they have accidentally omitted this stretch of Station Lane . |
| 12 | It was proposed that the shop stewards work on a brief response to Michael Taylor 's memo and present to SMT members before the meeting where decision would be taken . |
| 13 | In 1909 Trevor moved to Hampstead and for several years worked as a professional photographer . |
| 14 | Minkowski worked in a vigorous school of mathematicians whose traditions stretched back almost a century to Carl Gauss . |
| 15 | Supported by WACC , MAP Internacional is one of the few Protestant organisations working at a regional level on health issues . |
| 16 | I spent two and a half years working with a single comprehensive school looking at the change in that school from a system of streamed teaching to a system of mixed ability teaching . |
| 17 | I spent two and a half years working with a single comprehensive school , looking at the change in that school from a system of streamed teaching to a system of mixed ability teaching . |
| 18 | Most bands work on a guaranteed fee against a percentage . |
| 19 | According to the Labour Force Survey , the proportion of agency workers working on a temporary basis because they do not want permanent jobs is considerably higher than the average for all temporary workers and that the proportion of agency secretarial/office workers doing so is still higher ( see Table 5.1 ) . |
| 20 | Whilst only just over a fifth of all workers work on a part-time basis , well over a half of temporary workers do so . |
| 21 | Generally , the streetwise dealers work in a separate camp from the more educated types , and never the twain shall meet . |
| 22 | I suppose that many of the culprits work on a perverted logic of ‘ if it stops , then so will I ’ . |
| 23 | It also allows software producers to work within a common compatibility format . |
| 24 | In the Late Temple period , when Knossos dominated most of Crete , the temple potters worked in a different spirit , producing more formal , symmetrical and grandiose work . |
| 25 | In fact , the best stories work like a toppled pack of cards : you realise at the end why the man could n't have bought the pornography from the dodgy book-seller ( he was blind ) or why the couple should n't have wasted their savings on replacing the diamond necklace ( it was paste ) and think , Aha . |
| 26 | I wonder if Pemberton-Billing would be pleased if he could know that modern Laservision discs and Compact Digital Discs work on a similar principle , although starting in the middle and slowing down . |
| 27 | An industry breakdown , which is given in Table 2.3 , shows that in " other manufacturing " ( particularly the food and drink industry and printing ) the share of temporaries working on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis is even higher ( some 80 per cent ) . |
| 28 | So paragraphing may present some bilingual writers working in a second language with greater difficulties than writers whose experience is confined to the language and culture in which they are writing . |
| 29 | Try and make the licks work in a playing situation now : ie. jam with them ! |
| 30 | His rivals work at a quieter pitch , making art that is predominantly abstract . |