Example sentences of "[noun sg] work for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence .
2 Giving judgment in a case that has so far been heard in camera , Mr Justice Hoffmann ruled that Mr William Goodwin , a journalist working for The Engineer , must hand over his notes of a telephone conversation with his source .
3 A United States journalist working for the Tampa Tribune , Todd Smith , was kidnapped in the Upper Huallaga valley on Nov. 17 and subsequently found beaten and murdered in Uchiza , accused of being a US spy .
4 While Special Branch sent along junior officers to transcribe proceedings at NL meetings in 1939 , the most important information we have on its activities is that procured by an intelligence agent working for the Board of Deputies of British Jews .
5 Azef , the leader of its ‘ fighting organization ’ , was exposed as a double agent working for the Okhrana .
6 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 .
7 David Dorn , a nuclear physicist working for the Commission , was quoted in New York on Jan. 15 as saying that it was possible that Iraq possessed enough components for up to 10,000 gas centrifuges .
8 Brent magistrates have ruled that the case against Guinness Brewing Worldwide , its technical manager and a consultant working for the company following a fatal accident at Park Royal Brewery last year should be heard at the Crown Court .
9 where corporate information is revealed legitimately to an underwriter , accountant , lawyer , or consultant working for the corporation , these outsiders may become fiduciaries of the shareholders … [ they do not actively solicit or acquire inside information ] but rather they have entered into a special confidential relationship in the conduct of the business of the enterprise and are given access to information solely for corporate purposes .
10 Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted .
11 Sir , in June nineteen ninety two Mrs Brown er successfully obtained temporary work working for the Nottingham Community Hospice as a nursing auxiliary and the work was initially intended to be for a period of about three months .
12 Finally , when they get back home once again they are ‘ in demand ’ , and it is in their nature to work for the family again and put their own wants or needs to the bottom of the pile !
13 According to the Bangkok Post of Nov. 2 , more than 40 top-level officials , including Thongsouk Saisangkhi , had formed a Social Democrat Group to work for the introduction of a multi-party democracy .
14 She had long since realized her husband worked for the government , but he had never discussed it with her , much less told her he was a spy .
15 The Members of that Assembly worked for the good of everyone in Northern Ireland , regardless of religion or politics .
16 Mr Jefferson retired from his post as Naafi produce buyer in 1976 ; his wife worked for the railways during the war .
17 Lorna Wood , a promotion activist working for the industry , gave me the full shock-horror story : ‘ People knew raisins were good for them .
18 Its authority to work for the removal of all barriers to the free movement of coal and steel rested on a wide array of actions , ranging from non-binding recommendations to binding decisions .
19 Cook 's father worked for the Pennymans on the estate , and Cook spent part of his childhood here .
20 Mr Ensoll reflects : ‘ It has been a very varied career working for the Post Office for the last 33 years .
21 This new road will be constructed as advance works for the Musselburgh Bypass project and will be funded from savings in costs resulting from the closure of Mucklets Road .
22 I see erm it also misheard me here because I 'm involved in designing a television series as well on the construction industry also gives me some interesting data about the industry was it ten per cent of the nation 's workforce works for the construction industry which in an average year will turn over thirty five billion pounds
23 A tank known as the A.14 Model was designed in conjunction with the War Office and facilities were provided at Crewe Locomotive Works for the erection of a pilot model , completed in July 1939 .
24 The first foreigner to work for the Treuhand is Barry Hylton Davies , a project manager with British construction company John Mowlem .
25 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 .
26 ’ . Prior to the establishment of the modern police system , the control of this underclass was the responsibility of the army working for the monarch or government .
27 Built in 1891 by Manning Wardle ( works no. 1210 ) as class L , the 12″ 0 6 0ST spent the first 40 years of her life working for the Doncaster contractors , Logan and Hemingway where she was known as No. 10 .
28 This was the source of the basic duty to work for the preservation of social solidarity .
29 The important points which emerge from this case are that the employer will be able to rely on this part of the duty of fidelity if it can be shown that the employee works for a trade competitor in his spare time and : ( a ) knows of business secrets which may be of use to the competitor and/or ( b ) occupies a position which makes it expedient to recognise the existence of his duty to work for the employer alone .
30 Second , it is trying to persuade researchers that it is a good thing to work for the military .
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