Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of the eighteenth century both pewter and pure tin — natural or silvered — were also being used , though the nobility appear to have remained loyal to brass , it being more convenient for the engraver to work , especially if one 's coat-of-arms was to appear on it . |
| 2 | For the scheme to work , it is necessary that the trigger point or detonation temperature for collapse of the non-fullerene cluster depends rather sensitively upon cluster size . |
| 3 | When Eglantine Jebb launched the Save The Children Fund in May nineteen nineteen , one of her aims was for the fund to work for its own extinction . |
| 4 | Herzberg , Mausner and Snyderman observe in their study of The Motivation to Work that the provision of better working conditions has the effect of reducing dissatisfaction but not the effect of producing satisfaction . |
| 5 | The greatest possible self-created order , he wrote , compatible of course with the freedom to work , which may mean very little order indeed or may mean a great deal of order , depending on the individual and the circumstances . |
| 6 | None of the four fields in the ‘ militant ’ group held a ballot ; in all four , the miners were prepared to strike following their local Executive 's call , and to remain on strike , in the great majority of cases , until the return to work a year later . |
| 7 | Conventional wisdom dictates that the experiences at school , in the transition to work , at work itself and in society generally , tend to imbue the black youth with a jaundiced view of the world ; recoiling from the ‘ pressures ’ , he retreats to a street-corner gang existence , detaching himself from society and cultivating a posture of indifference or even hostility towards the rest of society . |
| 8 | There is nothing in it for the participants except the opportunity to work for low or no wages . |
| 9 | People travel outside the village to work , so turning it into a dormitory village . |
| 10 | To repeat , these two ‘ able-bodied ’ cathartic needs are : ( 1 ) the ridding or disavowal of health , fitness and other physical/functional issues pertaining to the ability to work , and ( 2 ) the disavowal of the presence of death and mortality . |
| 11 | Many people travel from the islands to the city to work , and vice versa . |
| 12 | He stayed for five years — photographing cars and production lines — before being dismissed for habitual lateness ( he had dallied once too often taking pictures on the way to work ) . |
| 13 | On the way to work , we bump into Milena . |
| 14 | but she saw him on the way to work in town , had a bloody great barney with him on the market place on the way to work , just say , she was in there about ten minutes and burst into tears |
| 15 | it 's in the paper cos , a fellow on the way to work said it was and she , Graham got married in the May and er they get married in Cyprus but |
| 16 | going on the way to work . |
| 17 | Clarke , in a review of the literature on the transition to work , says that it tends to support the view that the ‘ majority of early leavers adjust fairly painlessly to working life ’ ( Clarke , 1980 , p. 10 ) . |