Example sentences of "working [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Craftsmen can be seen working the willows into traditional Baskets , Hurdles , Rose Arches , Bowers , Garden Seats and Summerhouses . |
2 | Working the tasks |
3 | While working the FAXgrabber icon appears at the bottom of the screen and little bracket symbols move from side to side underneath it to tell you that it is operating . |
4 | Working the weekend ? |
5 | She allowed herself about three minutes and then joined in the argument over Melissa while working the pushchair towards the door . |
6 | As for working the ebony , it blunts tools very rapidly and it is really best to use scrapers and stockscrapers when performing shaping operations , as they keep their edge and give a superb shiny finish , leaving little cleaning up but for a rub-over with 400 grit paper . |
7 | I should think it is working the way of bringing back the workhouse through having too much economy . ’ |
8 | Do they end up working the way we 've got to bloody work here on this tiny pension or the pension that they 've earned as an MP |
9 | The malt was working the colour back to her cheeks . |
10 | He was barely 20 years old and already working the nightclub circuit when he wed for the first time . |
11 | I have never made any secret of the fact that I believe that the future of Monktonhall lies in British Coal working the pit and we have said that from the start . |
12 | What is surprising about the Metro is its reluctance to being screaming and howling when you start working the engine hard . |
13 | Everything is covered ; living aboard , basic safety , handling ropes , working the engine , anchoring , plus mooring Mediterranean style , handling sails , reefing , and even sailing the yacht ! |
14 | Ma-in-law did n't like the idea of her being in Norfolk with the Whistler on the prowl , not with me working the hours I do . ’ |
15 | I 've never heard of anyone working the hours I worked but then again I was living there and that was my disadvantage . |
16 | If such advances are to be made and put into practice by the people working the land , then higher soil losses can be ‘ tolerated ’ . |
17 | Today we are in the vulnerable position of producing barely half our own food , with only 2½ per cent of our people directly concerned with working the land , and that percentage is still falling . |
18 | Kalchu was busy all the time , working the land from dawn to dusk . |
19 | Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods . |
20 | Because the countryside involves working the land , and that land has in a sense been here forever , there appears to be something eternal about rural life , its rhythms and patterns , that city life can never reproduce . |
21 | WORKING THE LAND |
22 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
23 | To a very large extent , Hound Tor represents the archetypal hamlet described by Harald Uhlig as representing the original west European type of settlement — what would be called a drubbel in Germany or claehan on the Celtic fringes — a hamlet inhabited by relatives , working the land together . |
24 | Well er grown in just in rotation you know working the land every five or six year rotation er and er you had not very much hay . |
25 | In 1979 we began pioneering the direct mail concept at constituency level with my wife Marlies at first typing and then working the word processor and computer . |
26 | In the absence of pressing problems he improvises his activities , working the case he wants to work . |
27 | ‘ It 's extraordinary , most people have dismissed her as a hype-merchant who 's just good at working the system , but then she delivers something like this . |
28 | Those who advance in this environment are men with an instinct for securing supplies , mobilising resources , finessing statistics , cultivating connections and ‘ working the system ’ . |
29 | A new lifestyle has developed , whereby the energy of many people on means-tested assistance is channelled into what is called ‘ working the system ’ . |
30 | A move such as raising the real value of national insurance benefits , and of child benefit in particular , will , I believe , begin to change the psychological attitude of claimants , by allowing the extraordinary effort and intelligence that is currently absorbed into ‘ working the system ’ to be channelled into transforming the status of many currently caught in means-tested assistance . |