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 | 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 . " |
14 | This nanny worked in the big brewery down Manchester Road , capping the bottles and loading them into wooden crates . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The vast majority worked in the old GWR Works taken over by British Rail after the war . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Also , strikes are responsible for an almost negligible amount of lost time compared with total hours worked by the employed population . |
20 | The hours worked in the early cotton mills varied . |
21 | And women worked in that department , whereas the men worked at the huge broadloom |
22 | But there was a bland expression worked into the prune-like face . |
23 | Dad worked at the local car factory . |
24 | By July 1914 it covered 2.3 m. workmen ( almost no women worked in the insured occupations ) of whom 63 per cent were skilled . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Out of D.S. Chambers and Michael Baxandall and some Italian scholars Robinson measures up Pound 's ideas about the right relation between artist and patron against what we know of how patronage in fact worked in the ducal fiefs of Renaissance Italy ; and when he deals with the closeness of Pound 's views on this and related matters to Ruskin 's ideas ( a theme common to all these essayists ) , Robinson dares to broach the too long forbidden topic of the poet 's antagonism — inertly received , so some would say , rather than considered — to Christian faith and Christian ethics . |
27 | His son worked in the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation here , till an English lad , totally unqualified , came and was immediately employed above him . |