Example sentences of "[num] [noun] work [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because scientific needs often overlap the sharp boundaries drawn for good commercial reasons , such combined resources are not necessarily confined to C&P. thus , a further 500 researchers work for ICI Films and ICI Advanced Materials alongside C&P personnel at the Wilton Technical Centre , which is mainly concerned with materials . |
| 2 | Between 1862 and 1867 Hardy worked in London for the ecclesiastical architect A. W. Blomfield , but returned to his old employer in Dorchester in July 1867 . |
| 3 | Sr McLaughlin spent 22 years working in Africa — 10 of them in Zimbabwe . |
| 4 | At start up there are 30 people working at KITEC , all bar three were recruited from outside the company . |
| 5 | 15.33 Pupils working towards level 4 should , where possible , be given the opportunity to work in single sex and mixed groups of various size , with and without direct teacher supervision . |
| 6 | 15.41 Pupils working towards level 10 should learn that attitudes to Standard English and to non-standard varieties , eg as expressed in letters to newspapers , can be based on stereotypes and prescriptive judgement . |
| 7 | Harley did n't sit around totally idle ; there were some one-off specials — Hammersmith Odeon and Camden Palace — and of course he was six months working on Andrew Lloyd Webber 's ‘ Phantom Of The Opera ’ … |
| 8 | As one might expect , West Germany has inherited the ability to maintain vast dossiers on people within its borders and , bearing in mind that some 8,000 spies working for East Germany and Russia are said to be operating in West Germany , there is certainly plenty for them to do . |
| 9 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 10 | Mr Aimetti — who studied economics at Turin , spent some years teaching maths , six years working in banking , a similar period at SKF ( the ballbearing manufacturer ) and joined Iveco in 1978 sums up their position as ‘ complete autonomy — but we are always under control ’ . |
| 11 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 12 | The new machines are expected to come in above the ES/9000s and to dispense with water cooling , while being configurable with up to 100 processors working in parallel . |
| 13 | The National Rivers Authority is to close a loophole under which the 12,000 sewage works in England and Wales can cause highly toxic pollution of rivers without fear of prosecution . |
| 14 | I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise . |
| 15 | In the UK 1406 women work for Ciba-Geigy — 23 per cent of the total workforce . |
| 16 | There were 209 employees working for UNACO , thirty of those being crack field agents siphoned off from police and intelligence agencies around the world . |
| 17 | Currently , 350 experts working in specialist groups are preparing 300 new monographs , while continuing updating existing texts . |
| 18 | At the height of their popularity in New York , there were three lines working in Broadway . |
| 19 | The workforce took salary cuts , the three directors work without salary for three months and one skilled employee was made redundant . |
| 20 | Imbert , who has known Moore 's daughter Mary since 1985 , has spent three years working in collaboration with her to organise the exhibition which , in its latter phases , has employed a team of forty people . |
| 21 | It is staffed by a dozen officers working in shifts but supposed eventually to have three times as many . |
| 22 | There are now more than 4,500 people working within Homebase . |
| 23 | As the hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) has pointed out , about a quarter of offshore workers are employed by the major companies , while the remaining three quarters work for contractors . |
| 24 | 16.41 Pupils working towards levels 8 to 10 should be reading from a wide range of literature written for adults . |
| 25 | IT hopes to persuade its 80 VARs to work through Technology in future , though insists there will be ‘ no arm twisting ’ . |
| 26 | She spent 18 years working for director of statistics and computers , Mr Ramm , and was then secretary to Len Payne , director of distribution . |
| 27 | He spent 18 years working for Ford , ending up as manager of its Dearborn assembly plant . |
| 28 | In fourteen years working with sheep , farmer Gwyn Davies has never seen such a whopping lamb before : |
| 29 | On the other hand India , which had 170,000 nationals working in Kuwait and several thousands in Iraq , limited its response to an acceptance of the need to comply with mandatory sanctions , an expression of regret at Iraq 's action and a call for the withdrawal of troops . |
| 30 | PA has over 1600 consultants working with UK and continental European industry . |