Example sentences of "to work the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that lead was mined by the Brigantes because after the battle of Stanwick and the defeat of Venutius in AD 74 by the Ninth Spanish Legion under Petilius Cerialis , many of the defeated warriors were taken as slaves to work the lead-mines at Hurst in Swaledale and Greenhow Hill in Wharfedale , where lead pigs bearing Roman markings , probably stolen by native workers , have been unearthed from their hiding places . |
| 2 | Some of the smaller cars were delivered to work the Crystal Palace route as soon as possible . |
| 3 | When the matter under discussion has been aired , the final element in this strategy is to agree to work the issue through together . |
| 4 | But ‘ No , ’ he repeated , just that , and left her to work the rest of it out . |
| 5 | I have to work the rest of the day and not finish at two o'clock |
| 6 | BLACK Five No. 44932 , originally programmed to work the Fort William-Mallaig service until November , but was returned prematurely to the Midland Railway Centre for repairs . |
| 7 | It is impossible for me to work the way I want to work when she is on the stage . ’ |
| 8 | to work the way he the other ones . |
| 9 | Sylvia agreed to work the streets for him on the understanding he would find out what she wanted to know . |
| 10 | I advertised for male compositors [ to work the machines ] and got no reply . |
| 11 | Now , possibly alerted by advisers from outside ( such as C. M. Bowerman , from the London Society of Compositors , chairman of the NPKTF , and member of parliament , who attended the negotiations during 1910 ) , the committee of the ETS on behalf of its members , came into line with compositors everywhere else in claiming the right to work the machines . " |
| 12 | A simple piece of apparatus ( fig.8 ) is required to work the bevel accurately and with a good finish . |
| 13 | The following morning , she caught the first flight out of Lisbon on one of the old KLM Dutch airliners , which had escaped the clutches of the Nazis to work the Portugal-England route . |
| 14 | to work the price out . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The other is dominated by workers with few skills , other than their willingness to work the hours required by their employers . |
| 17 | You know that I have to work the land down there . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They would need children to work the land when they became old . |
| 21 | If nobody wants to work the land — well go round by the villa . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They even sent us some French and Belgians , people like that , to work the land . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We were born to work the land , this land where we were born and raised our children ’ |
| 27 | In general landowners were expected to work the land and to increase productivity , but not to upset the ecological balance . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If they do n't , then he says the countryside will be stripped of it 's most important resource — people to work the land . |
| 30 | well you can get so far , but then I work the brackets out and you do n't always have to work the brackets out |