Example sentences of "working for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | working for a community organization . |
| 2 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 3 | In order to provide ‘ permanent ’ help , many agencies operate a rota system with the carers working for a period of one or two weeks or a month , and then changing over in a planned way with another carer . |
| 4 | He also stressed that the personal satisfaction in working for a small firm was as important as the financial contribution the sector made to the economy . |
| 5 | JACQUES DELORS , President of the European Commission , told West Germany that its hopes for reunification would best be served by working for a more federal Community , implying that this might one day embrace East Germany . |
| 6 | If the builder is employed by an architect or contractor working for a client ( known as a supervised contract ) the upper limit for cover is being increased to £125,000 . |
| 7 | Shelford , part of Mark McCormack 's International Management Group which handles the interests of many of the world 's top sporting celebrities , has bypassed the laws on amateurism by working for a company whose main activity is the promotion of the All Blacks captain . |
| 8 | ‘ Debbie could certainly be capable of working for a hairdresser in some capacity , ’ says Fergus Stewart , a lecturer at the Central Manchester College of Technology where Mrs Finni had Debbie briefly enrolled this spring after her local branch of the Amnesia Association suggested a visit . |
| 9 | Prince has been elevated by success to a level beyond that of a musician working for a living . |
| 10 | In common with most teenagers , David took a couple of part-time jobs , one riding around on a pushbike with a basket on the front for a butcher , and another working for a record shop owned by Vic Furlong . |
| 11 | Between 1938 and 1945 she performed in Manchuria , working for a Japanese propaganda outfit , the Manchuria Cinema Association . |
| 12 | Mr Heseltine was working for a 50:50 hybrid tax , split between property and head-tax . |
| 13 | Here am I , working for a glamorous journalist in a huge house in Richmond , looking after her brat of a daughter ( four-year-old Charlotte , who has her good moments but is mostly involved in a longstanding game of wear-the-au-pair-to-a-frazzle ) , when my mother needs me just as much to look after her daughter , but does n't have a big house and ca n't afford to pay . |
| 14 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 15 | The enterprising Campbell Freight Agencies ' company was formed in May 1979 when Alan decided to go out on his own after working for a multi-National freight firm . |
| 16 | By noon , he could hardly stand , let alone tramp over the moor , and he stumbled about , muttering away in Gaelic , complaining about working for a bunch of foreigners who had usurped his rightful King . |
| 17 | IN 1989 I was working for a community video project called Women 's Media Resources . |
| 18 | In 1831 , Scott was introduced to a ‘ Mr Wallen , a well-known surveyor ’ who advised him to complete his architectural training by working for a builder . |
| 19 | or individuals possibly working for a higher degree , have gathered information and analysed it . |
| 20 | A new paperback edition of Maeve Kelly 's first novel — an urgent , provocative story of a woman 's escape from the claustrophobia of provincial family life and her baptism of fire into the feminist movement , working for a battered women 's refuge . |
| 21 | After working for a while in Capetown and Orange Free State to acquire funds , Macleod bought a wagon and eighteen oxen , and set out with his elder brother to trade with the tribesmen around Kimberley . |
| 22 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 23 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 24 | As one lecturer put it , ‘ I do n't want one of my students working for a first to have the achievement marred because it was ‘ only a 1.2 ’ . ’ |
| 25 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 26 | He dresses up as a woman to play a nanny working for a yuppie in Mrs Doutfire . |
| 27 | … a dreadful distress prevailing and consequent depression … the people are working for a very pittance — 5000 persons on the poor book in Frome — very inadequately relieved … |
| 28 | But in any event , those in corporate finance , whether working for a bank , an accountancy firm , or an M&A boutique , talk of the excitement and the rush of adrenalin when a deal is near to completion , and the need for secrecy adds to the buzz . |
| 29 | A British undercover agent in one of David Cornwell 's [ John le Carré 's ] novels is so exasperated by platitudes by a superior that he exploded within himself that it was like working for a bloody clergyman . |
| 30 | ‘ You know , Hank , if you really want to write for a living you should go to London and Edinburgh , go to Europe , too — perhaps try working for a newspaper or magazine . |