Example sentences of "[vb mod] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the case of a tenant 's notice a requirement that rent be apportioned may work to the prejudice of the landlord since he will need time to arrange a reletting. ( c ) Circumstances of exercise It is rare nowadays for the landlord to have an unrestricted power to determine a lease . |
| 32 | Tighter control of the bureaucracy by one group of politicians may work to the disadvantage of others . |
| 33 | Commercially , such a rent review clause may work to the disadvantage of either party . |
| 34 | Second , the information requirements are considerable and the time taken assembling data may work against the efficiency that the organisation is trying to achieve . |
| 35 | What toys the daily reading of such a book may work in the will of a young gentleman , or a young maid … wise men can judge and honest men do pity . |
| 36 | Of course while this point may work in the tenant 's favour in a falling market , it is just as likely to work in the landlord 's favour in a rising market . |
| 37 | Well these were the hottest place that you could work at the ovens of dough in the bread ovens . |
| 38 | They just do n't actually have that information , a lot of small local groups , and I think maybe the C B S could work with the Engineers department in future years and try to get to those groups , because I 'm sure a lot of them , actually if they were given the opportunity in time to get in , that , that you might have a lot of people applying for flag and whatever than you do now . |
| 39 | He 'd asked if he could work on the girl , but Frick had refused . |
| 40 | ‘ I could work during the holidays . ’ |
| 41 | But it was as much a legal body as a spiritual one , although occasionally this could work for the individual 's unexpected benefit as in the laws relating to sanctuary or ‘ abjuring the realm ’ . |
| 42 | One great difficulty in the event was that the picture of the man of science as an open-minded searcher after truth does not fit all of them ; indeed it is hard to see how anybody could work in the kind of vacuum envisaged by some of those who invoke a Baconian inductive method . |
| 43 | As early as 1973 , community service orders had been introduced so that offenders could work in the community for up to 240 hours . |
| 44 | He could work from the model here , a great improvement on the parsonage . |
| 45 | " I 'd work on the assumption that he was n't put in before high water , " Sergeant Burgess said . |
| 46 | From there we 'd work on the sound to develop it , maybe even including different amplifiers . |
| 47 | ‘ At first , I was n't at all sure they 'd work in the cottage . |
| 48 | She 'd work from the photographs later : one of them was chunky , the full lines of his mouth emphasised by the trim of his moustache and beard . |
| 49 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 50 | ‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 52 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |
| 53 | Cos , you used to work for the castronery had to pay you see , not the firm . |
| 54 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 55 | There is a bar by the roadside , further on , and I 'll enquire there , as I think the landlady used to work for the Harvey-Beaumonts . |
| 56 | Harry , who used to work for the coal board , cites Graham Gooch as his favourite cricketer . |
| 57 | We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority . |
| 58 | K. M. When I used to work on the dockside , it was a hive of activity , all the horses and the steam-engines parked along the street . |
| 59 | You 've got to make sure that you 're in good health , and you 're a er hale and hearty individual , so if you 're from a long lived family , erm I once er made a mistake on er delivering one of these courses and er I think erm erm there 's an elderly lady used to work on the course , do you remember Miss , Miss ? |
| 60 | And we realized on reflection , had Freda have not volunteered early enough , another lady who used to work at the station played , u plays for Nigel when he does his gigs . |