Example sentences of "[adv] work [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed that it was necessary to combine the best in local community action and larger social concerns ; to bring the fragments of social and community action together , e.g. community groups , trade unions , women 's groups , etc. to work towards a vision of a new society based on a radical analysis of existing structures and the lessons and aspirations of the men and women attempting to create new structures at local level ; to stress objectives and content in education as well as methods and process . |
| 2 | She had encouraged him rather to work as a translator , this seemed to be a safer activity . |
| 3 | Unless you are fortunate enough to work for a company that recognises this need , there are basically two options available for that initial promotion . |
| 4 | Although these are specialised positions , each team member needs to be flexible enough to work in a number of projects in different areas . |
| 5 | In the " proximity talks " the two leaders were brought together to work towards a framework agreement in line with UN Security Council Resolution 750 of April 1992 [ see p. 38873 ; for talks in June see p. 38980 ] . |
| 6 | The whole Wolfchild Red Indian routine can only work as a fantasy role if the music transcends the mundane and enables the listener to bliss out on that alone , and if the singer thinks he 's Geronimo , fine , after all we 're quite prepared to accept Black Francis as having some handle on space travel , David Bowie as an alien , Rock Messiah human being and Bono as a cowboy bluesman . |
| 7 | The exploitation of ethnicity may perhaps work as a form of primitive accumulation of cultural capital , but it does nothing to enlarge the audience or scope of such work , which is why most artists and writers of any stature have rejected this appellation , even if they have benefited indirectly from it . |
| 8 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 9 | Ron Letts , who was 50 , and had only worked as a security guard for two years , was run down outside a wharehouse near Milton Keynes . |
| 10 | Do not wait until it is clogged with fish waste and debris and therefore only working at a fraction of its efficiency . |
| 11 | Perhaps working in a place like this was n't such a bad idea after all . |
| 12 | Others find it best to work in a revision group . |
| 13 | It still survives , and has retained vestiges of its water wheels , but is no longer worked as a mill , having become a restaurant . |
| 14 | Elizabeth Stewart , post-graduate chemistry student , recalls that Sir Robert Robinson under whom she was to work was away working for a government department and his students rarely saw him : ‘ We never knew when he would do a lab round , and often it would be at the lunch hour , when I was out ’ . |
| 15 | If you already work in a shop — or have done shop work in the past you may find that some of the procedures described here are done differently where you work . |
| 16 | If you already work in a shop , ask your supervisor/ manager if you can interview some of the customers . |
| 17 | ( If you already work in a shop , draw a plan of the area where your shop is located . |
| 18 | and and they paid the fees and so on whereas er anywhere else you just work for a firm of estate agents and they pay whether they pay you and the qualifications up to you you go off and do it and you know |
| 19 | You just work on a plan where that i at the er at the beginning of the day you 're , you 're given your people to watch . |
| 20 | ‘ Working for industry makes you intensely more accountable than just working for a university ever does . |
| 21 | In general , designers no longer work with a heap of transistors and a hot soldering iron . |
| 22 | When I first started , I was not exactly working toward a goal , but having fun collecting with Basil Taylor 's assistance . |
| 23 | If you are already working as a nurse tutor at a college , please approach your principal for further details on how to apply . |
| 24 | He was already working as a freelance cartoonist and his work appeared in a number of magazines . |
| 25 | Well , I 'd rather work in a shop , among people . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd rather work in a place like that , where we can face problems and move them on and develop things carefully , than to work in some places in the country where things are so far off agenda , as it were , as to be impossible . |
| 27 | At 14 , Hurston left home to work as a housemaid , then went back to school and on to university , where she studied literature and later anthropology . |
| 28 | I once worked with a teacher who was called out six times in an hour to deal with comparatively trivial problems ( certainly trivial compared with the slaying of the Minotaur ) . |
| 29 | I once worked on a magazine about the law , called , imaginatively , Law Magazine . |
| 30 | Corporal Staples once worked as a receptionist . |