Example sentences of "[Wh pn] work in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most people in Britain , the Medical Research Council 's study , published in February 1990 , revealing the strong possibility that fathers who worked in the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria had passed leukaemia to their children in their sperm , moved speculation out of the realms of the circumstantial into that of the confirmed . |
| 2 | While Robyn was hesitating , the office began to fill up with men wearing drab suits and dull ties and with the pasty complexions that seemed to be common to everybody who worked in the factory . |
| 3 | And tonight he was going to meet a magnificent girl called Jane Ashton who worked in the Y.M.C.A. canteen in the village of Chavigny . |
| 4 | The women who worked in the butchers ' section distinguished themselves the most during that very special battle . |
| 5 | Was n't that Cynthia , who worked in the deli ? |
| 6 | This protectiveness has been especially strong in Sian , as before we got here there was an ‘ incident ’ in which an Australian girl teaching at the Foreign Language Institute was attacked and injured ( a fractured scull ) by a son of one of the workers who worked in the Institute . |
| 7 | This could occasionally , in Green 's case , be augmented by smoke from the many charcoal burners who worked in the lakeland woods . |
| 8 | I was in a wine bar the other day and it was just before the opening of Stanstead , a few weeks before , and I met a chap in there who worked in the airport and we were just in conversation and he said , asked him what he did , and he said , ‘ I 'm basically on temporary contract preparing for the Queen coming to open the airport . ’ |
| 9 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 10 | To the anatomists who worked in the museum or the dissecting room , processes that could only be observed in the field were of little interest . |
| 11 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 12 | This problem faced by the teacher who sees himself as deliverer of prepacked information is admirably expressed by Caldwell Cook , who worked in the Perse School , Cambridge . |
| 13 | A more remarkable exception since he was not self-employed , was a Scots miner who worked in the pit until he was 75 , ‘ six days a week … |
| 14 | One was Morey Bernstein , who worked in the United States , and the other was Arnall Bloxham , who worked in Britain . |
| 15 | She picked her employees very carefully , and then she watched them equally cautiously ; there was little she did n't know about them , from the girls who worked in her houses , to the scullery maid who worked in the kitchen . |
| 16 | Given the Association 's fall in membership since the late 1940s , and given the views canvassed by some who worked in the field , exemplified by Bruce in The Highway , there were real fears that the WEA would lose its status as a Responsible Body . |
| 17 | Syl was trying with kindling glances and doubles entendres to enthral the girl who worked in the gallery . |
| 18 | Bill Hadley , who worked in the sales department alongside Clive would like to get in touch with him . |
| 19 | The girl who worked in the garden . |
| 20 | According to Mark Siegel , who worked in the Carter White House , With Reagan in the executive mansion the atmosphere was different ; members of congress were pleased to have their telephone calls returned ; where possible they were provided with assistance and they were carefully plyed with the ‘ small potatoes ’ of presidential patronage . |
| 21 | Half the children had parents who worked in the evening , anyway , and the other half left their children to decide for themselves . |
| 22 | ‘ But one morning , the old woman who worked in the house began to talk about Arthur . |
| 23 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 24 | A Mr J. Franklin from Beachampton , who worked in the Smithy , used to trap and bring rabbits to work every Monday morning when they were in season , for which he charged 2s 6d ( 12. ½p ) each . |
| 25 | Of those that did , the best is on the vaulted ceiling of what was a college chapel but is now a space occupied by a marble staircase , This is a Glory of Angels and was painted by the Neapolitan artist Giovan Battista Sassi who worked in the city during the early years of the eighteenth-century . |
| 26 | The old docks , part converted to smart new houses and flats for the Yuppies who worked in the City , but with areas still near-derelict , abandoned wharves and warehouses . |
| 27 | Well it 's interesting , actually , because I 've heard that before erm the piece that Audrey read out , and in fact erm someone in the City Council , a women in the City Council , put it on the front of her door and there was an outcry by many of the men who worked in the City Council . |
| 28 | The ones who knew , the men of his own class , the men who worked in the mills with him , they were unconvinced … |
| 29 | probably the men who worked in the cisterns used them as a means of travelling from one side of the cavern to the other . |
| 30 | ‘ Right here in Clonmacnoise , ’ the blonde ticket girl replied , and sent for a tall young man who worked in the grounds to show me her grave . |