Example sentences of "[noun] work [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His care for disabled children spans work at the orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry , Alder Hey Hospital , Liverpool , and through Riding for the Disabled . |
| 2 | The fact that a wide number of manufacturers work to the same pattern means that the caterer who is topping up need not return to the same source for the top-up . |
| 3 | Top-down ( concept-driven ) parsers work in the opposite way . |
| 4 | Often the change in relationship that occurs as the parents work on the initial problem areas will generalize to other times of the day as the parent gains confidence and authority . |
| 5 | Team scores are compared to introduce some rivalry ( which usually means that participants work into the early hours later in the course ) , and critiques prepared on how their performance might be improved through reference to Grid styles . |
| 6 | ILE will be key in ensuring applications work on the new hardware , as well as providing performance enhancements , according to Haines . |
| 7 | Most often known to us as witch doctors or medicine men , it has now been realised that their accumulated knowledge and experience of which natural substances work in the rapid healing of wounds , or alleviation of pain , is a major resource which modern science can use to good effect in producing ‘ new ’ drugs . |
| 8 | Modern EEGs work on the same principle as the sprung mirror galvanometer — i.e. they are capable of measuring very fast changes in potential difference between the electrodes , but are relatively insensitive to slow changes . |
| 9 | We now come to the second part of our programme , according to our agenda , which has the broad heading , Achiev N C V O Achievements and Intentions , and it 's obviously a natural follow-on from the I er , A G M which we have just completed , at which council received the annual report of N C V O's work for the past year , and its use of the resources which are available to it to carry out that work . |
| 10 | I got involved with agencies who specialise in placing children who were difficult to place , be it handicapped , black or of the wrong age , and that led to my doing a lot of work taking photographs for a magazine published by the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering and various publicity and public relations work for the Catholic Children 's Society . |
| 11 | Fifteen serving staff work in the main refectory with four waitresses in the staff dining room . |
| 12 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 13 | It has been alleged that the assumption that only fiscal considerations are important ‘ makes the voting by feet hypothesis somewhat unrealistic , except in a setting where people work in the inner city and may choose among the suburbs for residence ’ ( Musgrave and Musgrave 1989 , p. 453 ) . |
| 14 | Although we know much about how genes work at the microscopic level , less is known about all the intermediate processes through which genes find expression in phenotypic characters at the macroscopic level of the whole animal . |
| 15 | These bodies insist that their members work to the highest standards set out in the relevant Codes of Practice and strongly recommend that their surveyors are qualified by becoming a Certified Timber Infestation Surveyor ( CTIS ) and Certificated Remedial Damp-proofing Surveyor ( CRDS ) . |
| 16 | on more than one occasion … senior ranking officers have made no bones about the fact that they attribute many of the problems of contemporary police work to the pernicious influence of the media and sociology ! |
| 17 | From each you can get a good idea of what police work in the respective countries is really like . |
| 18 | The Connecticut engineering company does a small amount of sensitive nuclear-weapons work for the American government . |