Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] work " in BNC.

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1 We can then proceed to apply them to the work on literacy that we have been examining .
2 Immediately beyond the church and school the road has a less steep section , and soon passes a small cheese dairy where , depending on circumstances of the season , there may be an opportunity to see something of the work that is typical of this type of country .
3 As Maitland , who was a contemporary of Dicey , recognized , one repercussion of the consequent growth in the quantity and complexity of government business was that there was ‘ a tendency … on the part of parliament to confine itself to the work of legislation , of framing general rules of law , and of entrusting the power of dealing with particular cases to the king 's ministers , to boards of commissioners , to courts of law ’ .
4 He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing .
5 A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals .
6 Each of these six departments had two or three clerks or junior clerks to assist them in the work .
7 And it well you 're meant to get fifteen pound are n't you , he 's meant to pay you for the work ?
8 On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work .
9 Even Franco , whose automatic reaction to labour unrest was usually to dismiss it as the work of communist agitators , was obliged by the arguments of the Minister of Labour to authorize a 23 per cent general wage increase .
10 In 1979 fourteen committees were set up to concern themselves with the work of specific ( or in some cases two specific ) government departments .
11 He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do .
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