Example sentences of "[noun] worked [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most of the non-militant fields , on the other hand , ballots were held , support for the strike was low , and the majority of miners worked through the entire period of the dispute . |
| 2 | Yet because Siferwas worked outside the main centres of manuscript production , his influence was less than his achievement merited . |
| 3 | Even where secrecy was not ordered from above , the squabbling Soviet bureaucracy worked against the efficient collection and distribution of data . |
| 4 | ( c ) Divide the cost of the payroll between the current month and the next month 's costs , pro rata to the exact number of days worked in the respective months . |
| 5 | For Excess time payments — the amount is calculated by multiplying the number of days worked by the daily rate in the excess hours column . |
| 6 | For Excess travelling payments — the amount is calculated by multiplying the number of days worked by the daily rate in the expenses column . |
| 7 | The UK had no direct representation in Tripoli , although two British officials worked at the Italian embassy to represent British interests . |
| 8 | The equivalent of 48.9 maximum part time consultants worked in the inner London hospitals , sharing 53 orthopaedic trainees ( 1.08 per consultant ) ; this compared with 30.5 maximum part time consultants sharing 22 career trainees , outside London . |
| 9 | In the Solomon Islands , BGS geologists worked on the final phase of a six year mapping and mineral-exploration programme . |
| 10 | Employing communication media to achieve those goals , Puskat staff worked with the local community to develop a one-page community newspaper . |
| 11 | In 1987 31 per cent of the female workforce worked in the public sector as compared with 21 per cent of males . |
| 12 | Having several sons in the trade worked to the general benefit of the family business which could thereby offer a wider range of services . |
| 13 | It was felt that married servants — especially if both servants worked in the same house — tended to be more stable , and have a stabilising effect on the younger , unattached members of staff . " |
| 14 | The head of the Soviet nuclear weapons programme , Viktor Mikhailov , had said in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda on Jan. 31 that slightly over 100,000 people worked in the nuclear weapons programme , including 10,000-15,000 who had secret information and 2,000-3,000 who had important information on " sophisticated technologies . " |
| 15 | This nanny worked in the big brewery down Manchester Road , capping the bottles and loading them into wooden crates . |
| 16 | His account of how government worked in the ninth century is plausible , not least because it squares with what we can infer from Dhuoda and Nithard , despite the differences in their aims and standpoints . |
| 17 | Indeed , the Treasury worked skilfully to maintain its separateness by ensuring that CEPS worked to the financial year ( April to April ) whilst the Economic Section prepared its Survey on a calendar year basis . |
| 18 | The vast majority worked in the old GWR Works taken over by British Rail after the war . |
| 19 | Reduction of the hours worked for the full-time employees and not for the part-time employees would result in a financial advantage for the full-time employees . |
| 20 | As a result , if the working week is shortened for full-time employees , the hours worked by the part-time employees must be reduced proportionally . |
| 21 | Also , strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population . |
| 22 | The hours worked in the early cotton mills varied . |
| 23 | The striking feature of the activities at which children worked for a high proportion of the time was involvement with other people ; conversely , most of the activities at which children worked for the lowest proportion of time writing , reading , drawing/painting — involved no other people and could have been carried out most effectively in isolation . |
| 24 | And women worked in that department , whereas the men worked at the huge broadloom |
| 25 | But there was a bland expression worked into the prune-like face . |
| 26 | Dad worked at the local car factory . |
| 27 | In this calculation , I assumed that if two women worked in the same office and had the same surname ( provided it was not a very common one ) but different Christian names , then they were sisters . |
| 28 | By July 1914 it covered 2.3 m. workmen ( almost no women worked in the insured occupations ) of whom 63 per cent were skilled . |
| 29 | The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen . |
| 30 | What is usually glossed over is the fact that , in the process , democracy came to be " liberalised " in that its radical and egalitarian ideals were softened so that , in practice , democratic politics worked within the prevailing system of power in economy and society . |