Example sentences of "to work [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the matter under discussion has been aired , the final element in this strategy is to agree to work the issue through together . |
| 2 | But ‘ No , ’ he repeated , just that , and left her to work the rest of it out . |
| 3 | I have to work the rest of the day and not finish at two o'clock |
| 4 | It is impossible for me to work the way I want to work when she is on the stage . ’ |
| 5 | to work the way he the other ones . |
| 6 | A simple piece of apparatus ( fig.8 ) is required to work the bevel accurately and with a good finish . |
| 7 | to work the price out . |
| 8 | In the Southern Pennine Orefield , Laporte Industries Ltd continued to work the Sallet Hole fluorite mine and began exploitation of a lower-grade , replacement style of mineralisation in the Bradwell area . |
| 9 | You know that I have to work the land down there . |
| 10 | Whereas all the other farmsteads had either lusty young sons to work the land and tend the animals to improve their living standards , or were able to afford to hire in permanent labour , the Hauxwells were supporting four elderly relatives at one stage , had no sons ( Hannah was an only child ) and were finally dealt a cruel blow when Hannah 's father became mortally ill . |
| 11 | The young people , in particular , as they become better educated are reluctant to work the land — which is very hard work for a low income . |
| 12 | They would need children to work the land when they became old . |
| 13 | If nobody wants to work the land — well go round by the villa . |
| 14 | Labour was no longer as efficient as machinery and new systems of agricultural organisation and , as a result , the peasantry ( who had owned or had common rights to work the land in their villages ) were gradually forced off the land to become wage labourers . |
| 15 | Their lands were now being occupied by poorer people , their former servants , who had not the means , nor , to judge from McQueen 's words , the energies or capacities to work the land properly ; by such measures were they witnessing the reduction of the great Scottish holdings . |
| 16 | They even sent us some French and Belgians , people like that , to work the land . |
| 17 | There would be an extra pair of hands to tend the sheep , to trade , to work the land , or go to school then work in the city and send money home . |
| 18 | We were born to work the land , this land where we were born and raised our children ’ |
| 19 | In general landowners were expected to work the land and to increase productivity , but not to upset the ecological balance . |
| 20 | However , much will depend upon the circumstances so that profits à prendre can not be considered as a contract for the sale of goods being simply a privilege to work the land in question . |
| 21 | If they do n't , then he says the countryside will be stripped of it 's most important resource — people to work the land . |
| 22 | So for the trick to work the parent must always be perfectly safe . |
| 23 | She started to work the cream into the skin around her eyes , staring straight ahead at her reflection as she did it . |
| 24 | They 've no beasts to work the powder mill , but men could do it , if they are n't too weak . |
| 25 | Around 12 million Africans were captured and transported to work the cotton fields and tobacco and sugar plantations of the Caribbean and North America . |
| 26 | I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot . |
| 27 | Once I remember having to work the switchboard when one of the girls was away on holiday — awful — I kept cutting people off . |
| 28 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 29 | There was an inquiry about this in 1867 , when Richard Colwell was said to have left wheat at the mill for three weeks , while waiting for enough water to work the mill . |
| 30 | The band were involved in a car accident and while they had thought that there were no casualties , their sound man subsequently suffered from dizzy spells and was unable to work the night of the gig . |