Example sentences of "to work [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His civil status also means he can choose whether or not he wants to work during his sentence . |
| 2 | An issue that typically divides them — and caused the largest opposition group , the Democratic Party , to split at its congress last month — is whether to compromise with the Communists or to work for their complete removal . |
| 3 | They may moan about it every Monday morning , they may agitate for shorter hours and longer holidays , but they need to work for their self-respect . ’ |
| 4 | Improvements to animal welfare and the environment can only come about if they are perceived by us to have added value , and this means that the animals must continue to work for their living and we must accept the short-term economic consequences of working towards explainable , more humane , agriculture . |
| 5 | They are put to work for their hands , not for their minds or imaginations . |
| 6 | But their kids were n't expected to work for their love , it was n't seen as a return for services rendered . |
| 7 | The British introduced a system of taxation in Africa which forced the Africans to work for their colonizers simply to pay their taxes . |
| 8 | Aidan Canavan , chairman of the Dairy Farm Project — set up with aid from the International Fund for Ireland — said : ‘ The centre is one of the examples where success can be achieved by people getting together to work for their community in a non-sectarian way . |
| 9 | Where heavy demand or deficiencies existed , small-scale traders such as mechanics , carpenters and plumbers would be allowed to work for their own profit . |
| 10 | The original intention that the poor could be put to work for their own support , or even show the country a profit , was one which developed out of the Elizabethan founding idea of the " parish stock " . |
| 11 | Suggestions of obligating the unemployed to work for their benefits are quite in keeping for a Government which has done virtually everything else it can to ensure that millions of Britons will work for derisory incomes . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think people should have to work for their dole money , although some sort of ‘ workfare ’ programme might help some people in terms of references or whatever . ’ |
| 13 | Give them just enough food for them to be able to work for their keep . |
| 14 | I feel very sorry for people who have to work for their living now , I really do . |
| 15 | I said that 's just down bloody road from where I , where I live like cos er I used to work for their rival , G E C well they were A E R when I worked for them . |
| 16 | Since people were unable to exist outside society they were required , as a matter of prudence , to work for its preservation . |
| 17 | A significant outcome of the visit was the announcement on May 23 that Walesa , in support of the campaign by Israeli officials to overturn the 1975 UN resolution equating Zionism with racism [ see pp. 27487-88 ] , had asked UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to work for its cancellation . |
| 18 | Another canteen worker in the same village told me she does a shift from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. , returns home to work for her family , then she 's back at the pit from 7.30 p.m. until 10.45 p.m . |
| 19 | She deserted her artist 's studio in Chelsea to work for her mother 's Women 's Social and Political Union when it transferred from Manchester to London in 1905 and became honorary secretary . |
| 20 | Anyway what is wrong with that land of sunshine Australia , that you want to leave it , is it because you have to work for your living there ? ( quoted from Tatchell , Battle , 72 ) |
| 21 | So , if the business in which you work is expanding , but an associated employer 's business slims down and a long-serving employee of that other business is transferred to work for your company , resulting in your dismissal , you may be redundant . |
| 22 | In 1950 , he was Swiss sculls champion and finished third in the European championships before moving to Manila to work for his family 's private multinational company , Eduard Keller Ltd , for four years . |
| 23 | He prepared to work for his father in the building trade , or even go back to college . |
| 24 | He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced . |
| 25 | The Bible becomes his bastion against moral powerlessness , too , by reminding him constantly of the divine power that is available to overcome his weakness ( for " God is at work in you , both to will and to work for his good pleasure " ) . |
| 26 | When I am so self-centred that I would not dream of asking the Spirit for his strength , preferring to go my own way , I am encouraged to recall that ‘ God is at work in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure ’ ( Phil . |
| 27 | The programme is simple but certainly not easy and most of all it is individual : nobody can give recovery to anyone else , each recovering person has to work for his or her own recovery . |
| 28 | ‘ Unlike my father , who had to work for his money , my mother was born into a very wealthy family . |
| 29 | From his home in Worcester , Phil Ride says he 'll keep up pressure on the British Government to work for his brother 's release . |
| 30 | Subsequently , she worked for finance director Derek Henson until his retirement last year and continued to work for his successor Rosemary Thorne . |