Example sentences of "to work in [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I left him as usual to work in peace all day , certain that his reproachful silence which accompanied our mealtimes would lift at night . |
| 2 | Another had always wanted to work in landscape gardening , not manufacturing . |
| 3 | They are going to have to compete for jobs , even in the UK , with their contemporaries who have trained elsewhere in Europe and who are competent to work in English . |
| 4 | John Hyland 's research suggests that teaching and testing in children 's home languages reveals a much greater understanding than is shown when asking them to work in English only . |
| 5 | John Major , the British prime minister , created a political storm recently when he seemed in a speech to be supporting the idea of workfare — requiring the unemployed to work in exchange for benefits . |
| 6 | They have been able to work in government service , even in the army , and there has been no need for work permits . |
| 7 | In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government . |
| 8 | I work in pastels quite a lot , but I tend to work in colour all the time rather than pencil or charcoal . |
| 9 | As I always like to work in colour even when sketching , the usual options came up , watercolours , watercolour pencils and soft pastels . |
| 10 | AS I ALWAYS LOOK TO WORK IN COLOUR EVEN WHEN SKETCHING , THE USUAL OPTIONS CAME UP , WATERCOLOURS , WATERCOLOUR PENCILS AND SOFT PENCILS . |
| 11 | Women who want to work in broadcasting , or who are required by their jobs to speak frequently in public , encounter strong prejudice against their ‘ shrill ’ or ‘ tinny ’ voices . |
| 12 | Because fewer farm workers ' sons are willing to work in agriculture the contrasts between the traditional and the modern , between the old dependency and the new independence , are imported into the families of those older workers who have remained on the land . |
| 13 | A woman wanting to work in construction will find it difficult to enter ‘ a man 's world ’ , and most employers will be taken aback to find a man attending for interview as a secretary or child-minder . |
| 14 | I used to work in construction in Chicago , but a few of us got blown off the skyscrapers . |
| 15 | Only Turkmen citizens would be allowed to work in state enterprises , and Russian would no longer be the official language for inter-ethnic communication . |
| 16 | But all were agreed that her insight into what it 's like to work in space was fascinating . |
| 17 | Although all my aids had to work in unison , I had to really concentrate on being able to work them independently of each other . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's usually a lot of tension on movie sets , but on these films it 's so easy to work in unison . |
| 19 | I 'd like to work in photography now instead of you know erm going to college and spending four years at college . |
| 20 | Three Blue Sisters have now been sent as Missionaries to work in North West Atlanta , USA . |
| 21 | When he returned to Africa to work in journalism it was to the Gold Coast he came in 1934 . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's why I prefer to work in black and white ; the eye sees in colour , so with mono film it takes craft and ability to construct a picture to which people can relate . |
| 23 | Faced with these problems , computer scientists began in the mid 1970s to experiment with using many processors in a single machine to work in parallel on a single problem . |
| 24 | SynOptics also announced that as part of its Asynchronous Transfer Mode strategy , it has entered a technology partnership with Sun Microsystems Inc , enabling the companies to work in parallel on Asynchronous Transfer Mode development . |
| 25 | The Foreign Ministers ' proposals were to be discussed at the June European Council summit " with a view to a decision on the holding of a second intergovernmental conference to work in parallel with the conference on economic and monetary union with a view to ratification by member states in the same timeframe " . |
| 26 | Brooklyn born , he gave up academia in the 70 's to work in theatre and write plays . |
| 27 | In the wake of his early film success , he rejected the idea of uprooting himself and moving to America as he wanted to work in theatre as well as films . |
| 28 | The following day Gould visited the Catamaran River area again , but by now he was running short of fresh collecting sites and desperate to get back to work in earnest . |
| 29 | The regular doctor was called , but he was forced to work in conjunction with ‘ Grannie Patin ’ , a self-appointed cure-all from Mapledurham . |
| 30 | We intend to work in conjunction with the Musée des Arts de la Mode . |