Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] work the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Livsey : Will the Secretary of State note that British Coal Opencast has decided again to try for permission to work the Bryn Henllys site in my constituency , after an inspector turned down that application about a year ago ? |
| 2 | For desk work the pupils should be in a place from which they can most clearly and easily see any demonstration or illustration work that is being shown . |
| 3 | The one pipe pumped it full , the other — you were always scared it stuck , some sort of ballcock worked the thing — splashed it out . |
| 4 | LONDON 'S landmark statue Eros is back in Piccadilly Circus after five months of restoration work The statue , which will be 100 years old next month , was damaged by drunken revellers two years ago . |
| 5 | An acquaintance who is well-informed as to the intentions of the Liberals writes to me that they propose to make a big plan of public works the centre of their election programme . |
| 6 | But for some forms of still life , for example , and for colour work the photographer will be working with plates , which are expensive in themselves . |
| 7 | In routine work the field man must display himself as competent in other , subtler ways , showing himself to be on top of his job . |
| 8 | Marx argues in many places , but most clearly in the Preface to the Critique of Political Economy , that the source of the destruction of the capitalist system would come from the fact that the social system which itself had been created in order to work the factories and markets of capitalism would become increasingly incompatible with the technological requirements of these factories and markets , and that ultimately this incompatibility would lead to revolution . |
| 9 | The second argues that by concentrating on specialist work the generalist nature of the CAB upon which it was founded is disappearing . |
| 10 | For draft work the dot matrix printer is popular . |