Example sentences of "[noun sg] work on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission created a subcommission of members in Paris with Friedel as chairman to work on the document . |
| 2 | This demonstrated the importance of family factors in determining the occupational choice of rural school-leavers — nearly 42 per cent of the respondents stated that they had been influenced by their family in their decision to work on the land . |
| 3 | Why is Mrs O'Rea able to say that they do not need to hire labour to work on the farm ? |
| 4 | The line 's electrical department worked on the faults and the signals were back in use before the first train next day . |
| 5 | The psychologist worked on the assumption that Dawn should prepare herself for a life of dependency on others , so he did not try to motivate her towards self-sufficiency . |
| 6 | Microsoft has also demonstrated voice mail working on the system — if you ca n't be bothered to type a message in , just record it instead ! |
| 7 | The therapy works on the system that energy is present throughout the body : there are places where it gathers or is near the surface of the skin . |
| 8 | The therapy works on the principle that like cures like . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The mind works on the body in strange ways ; an intense experience , a powerful dream . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At each stage , the programme works on the structure of your hair , helping it to look as healthy as nature intended . |
| 13 | In 1799 , together with business partners , he opened the St. Rollox Chemical Works on the north side of Glasgow to manufacture his bleaching powders . |
| 14 | The rest were moved to Sutton depôt to work on the West Croydon — Sutton service . |
| 15 | By 1969 Victor had suggested that Neville wrote a book ; it was to be Playpower , and the foursome went to stay in a Devon country house where the Australian worked on the manuscript . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's the local guy made good who we are now trying to get to , ’ says Ian Sharpe , a Barclays secondee working on the Newcastle Initiative ( NI ) , a task force set up in 1988 to promote the city 's renaissance . |
| 17 | Man will voluntarily integrate his own goals with those of the organization if management works on the assumption not that people dislike work , prefer being directed rather than taking the initiative and respond only to material rewards or threats and sanctions ; but that they have needs for autonomy and independence which must be satisfied through structures of authority that allow self-motivation and self-control . |
| 18 | A stack works on the principle of ‘ last in first out ’ ( LIFO ) . |
| 19 | The stirring is automatic , the cutting is done by machine and the milling is done by a machine working on the principle of a giant food processor . |
| 20 | Already , when she had been making the tea , the first exhibit of the day had arrived , brought in no doubt by a detective constable working on the case . |
| 21 | There are dozens of specialist works on the subject of agricultural history , and many more dealing with purely local matters . |
| 22 | Seb still contrived to spend a couple of hours with Carrie every Sunday evening to work on the farm 's ledgers , carefully noting down each item of expenditure and the profit made . |
| 23 | set up a vision group to work on the direction of future ecumenical interaction in communication ; |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | by the station , her husband worked on the railway there . |
| 26 | 85% of the population worked on the land . |
| 27 | Certainly the careful structuring and methodical scrupulosity of his vernacular works on the development of spiritual life betoken an academic training . |
| 28 | Mrs Hamilton 's husband works on the oil rig . |
| 29 | The team working on the Elton project says it 's had definite results — increasing some children 's concentration and that they join in more than before . |
| 30 | We are looking for someone to join an international team working on the identification and cloning of antifungal proteins from plants . |