Example sentences of "[prep] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After working as a journalist on local press in her native USA , Dr Hess then spent time in the Philippines working as a missionary for the United Methodist Church ( UMC ) .
2 In addition Andrew Burt has returned to the team after working as an Education Officer in Hanover House .
3 After working for a while in Capetown and Orange Free State to acquire funds , Macleod bought a wagon and eighteen oxen , and set out with his elder brother to trade with the tribesmen around Kimberley .
4 After working for a building company for two months , she was offered a permanent secretarial position there and decided to accept it because the firm was willing to be flexible about unpaid time off .
5 After working on a couple of local papers for a number of years , Tony and a number of colleagues launched a weekly newspaper , following this was a spell at the Santa Fe daily .
6 However , Kolbe relented when Griess approached him again in 1856 after working in a tar distillery in Offenbach , and took him back .
7 A HEALTH authority last night named the doctor who died from AIDS after working in a group practice and in hospitals .
8 A HEALTH authority last night officially named the doctor who died from AIDS after working in a group practice and in hospitals .
9 Ward ( 1979 ) noted with alarm the signs of what he called ‘ Frontier man 's fright ’ whereby after working in an area for some time without apparent response from professional colleagues in related disciplines there is a tendency to desert it just as its true worth is to be recognized by others :
10 ‘ Debbie could certainly be capable of working for a hairdresser in some capacity , ’ says Fergus Stewart , a lecturer at the Central Manchester College of Technology where Mrs Finni had Debbie briefly enrolled this spring after her local branch of the Amnesia Association suggested a visit .
11 The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year .
12 But what of the personal pressures of working for an artist like Bryan Adams … ?
13 ‘ After many years of working for an employer .
14 So I am used to that process of working as a team and to delegating responsibility to the team and then of course monitoring and checking the results of the team .
15 First it was necessary for participants to recognise how little they understood of each others ' work , and then to begin to formulate ways of working as a team .
16 And the other aspect is one of working as a team .
17 After nearly eight years of working as an editor of the NI , I have facts embedded in my brain and figures coming out of my ears .
18 Although she was a feminist , her primary motivation for joining NoS was the challenge of working on a tabloid .
19 Talking to Pierre as we fished off the coast of Brittany had first given me the idea of working on a trawler .
20 One of the great advantages of working on a drama project , rather than on single , self-contained lessons , is that one can not only choose the duration but also the location of the drama lesson ; the work becomes integrative .
21 The camera is a high performance , auto focus SLR , capable of working at a depth of 100m without a housing — twice the depth of the current Nikonos V.
22 The camera is a high performance , auto focus SLR , capable of working at a depth of 100m without a housing — twice the depth of the current Nikonos V.
23 While on the subject of working at a depot we only find out about ‘ offers ’ either through the Journal , press or during shopping time so savings are also possibly lost when staff who work in the stores can take advantage of multi-buys etc on a regular basis .
24 The advantage of working with a software house to design your own package is that the end product is tailor-made .
25 does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided .
26 The process will still remain an essentially entrepreneurial one , but instead of working with a group of ‘ pure ’ entrepreneurs , we could simply recognize an entrepreneurial aspect to the activities of each market participant .
27 I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’
28 Obviously , the researcher will have some pre-defined ideas of what he or she is going to look at , but usually the experience of working with an organisation or group will suggest new possibilities , new questions to be asked and pursued .
29 The short average duration of all spells of working with an agency is also consistent with the picture of a large number of persons working on this basis for very brief periods only .
30 Good-quality listening is one of the best ways of working towards a solution for a problem .
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