Example sentences of "[noun sg] work [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line 's electrical department worked on the faults and the signals were back in use before the first train next day . |
| 2 | A director of one licensed dealer rang up a former employee working for a stockbrokers , addressing him as follows : " You took our clients with you , you little shit . |
| 3 | Many consider this check a waste of time , but experience has shown that — provided you have studied effectively — the sub-conscious mind works on the problems after you have read them through . |
| 4 | For the classic Ulster pear-shaped woman , step aerobics works on the areas you 'd rather not think about , that is hips , thighs and bum . |
| 5 | In the autumn of 1955 , some six months after he had been in Berlin , Blake approached his superiors with the suggestion that he should pretend to become an agent working for the Russians . |
| 6 | Yet the government can not easily undo the damage wrought by the courts . |
| 7 | They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level . |
| 8 | What we do at the end of the year we have n't quite worked out , but we are very much committed to sharing child care and professional space if you like , but we are very privileged in that academic work allows one the flexibility to work in the hours that you find convenient and so on and allows you the flexibility to make this kind of family arrangement . |
| 9 | She catalogues some of the services guests now take for granted , and which require electronic equipment working behind the scenes . |
| 10 | To encourage developers to write more modular software that can take advantage of systems that support Threads — a Thread can be any part of an application or programme that is not dependent on the result or outcome of another ( that can be treated as a task in its own right ) — Posix has a committee working on a Threads application programming interface standard . |
| 11 | Adaptation as a concept was perfectly acceptable to the nineteenth-century naturalist — they had , after all , had plenty of opportunity to observe the changes that an English climate wrought on the coats and plumage , as well as the size , of live birds and animals brought from hot countries . |
| 12 | Now that two of you are married and a couple of you are starting families , does the band work as a lads ' escape ? |
| 13 | ‘ I took a job working on the roads at Knaresborough , ’ he recalls , laughing again . |
| 14 | Food comes pretty much free with the husband 's job working in the fields for the team . |
| 15 | After a short period working with a girls ' club in Lambeth ( an LMH settlement ) , she became involved in the non-militant suffrage movement . |
| 16 | But he took off his jacket and went round the back to work with the sawyers who were cutting joists to a length . |
| 17 | Mr Jefferson retired from his post as Naafi produce buyer in 1976 ; his wife worked for the railways during the war . |
| 18 | His wife worked on the railways during the war and had her own fruit and general goods shop for 14 years . |
| 19 | Both series share a common conclusion in the belief in the inevitability of the Last Judgement for which the creativity of the Trinity works through the sacraments of the Church to ensure that man can rise with Christ to " that blis that euermore lastes " . |
| 20 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 21 | That sounds like something that they might have at the end of term or something done by an adult working in a steelworks . |
| 22 | A young giant working on the flower-beds along the drive straightened his long , lithe back to watch the car go by , without curiosity though with fixed , methodical attention , his senses turned outwards for relaxation while he took a breather . |
| 23 | He want out at half-seven and told Sarah he was going to the yard to work on the books . ’ |
| 24 | Some leaders spoke out against the new trend ; in a paper on preaching delivered at a Free Church Council meeting the quixotic Joseph Parker defended congregational applause during a sermon because it encouraged the preacher and allowed the Holy Spirit to work through the listeners . |
| 25 | The way of working therefore should be to negotiate long term visitors with regions on the present ‘ bidding ’ system as this gave enough space to work through the Coordinators with the opportunity of a regional strategy for using the visitor . |
| 26 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 27 | Now the FA plan to take the players pool under their umbrella , retaining Smith because of his success working with the players since the 1986 World Cup finals . |
| 28 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |
| 29 | Before the formation of the Labour Party it had been represented by the Independent Labour Party and the Social Democratic Federation working within the unions for the formation of a party representing labour . |
| 30 | The Welsh campaign was actively supported by Don Arnott , a retired nuclear scientist who had spent most of his life working on the uses of radioactivity in medicine . |