Example sentences of "[vb pp] to work [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Advanced Micro says a number of its personnel will be assigned to work on a full-time basis at Hewlett-Packard 's Deer Creek Research and Development Facility in Palo Alto , California over the next two years , although some tasks associated with the project will be handled at Advanced Micro 's Submicron Development Centre in Sunnyvale . |
2 | In Gever 's Application [ 1970 ] , data processing apparatus was arranged to work in a certain way associated with punched cards inserted into it . |
3 | When the converted attained the faith they were no longer merely formal Christians and were predisposed to work for a righteous world . |
4 | ‘ A woman whose response to Chernobyl is that only thirty-one people were killed , who can dismiss as unimportant one of the world 's greatest nuclear disasters which put thousands in hospital , exposed a hundred thousand or more to dangerous radioactivity , devastated vast areas of land , and may result in deaths from cancer amounting to fifty thousand over the next fifty years , is totally unsuitable to be trusted to work in an atomic power station . |
5 | SideKick 's telephone dialer is designed to work with a Hayes-compatible modem and can be set to operate in either tone or pulse mode . |
6 | However , the one thing that instantly distinguished PageMaker from the rest was the fact that it had been designed to work in the same way as a traditional paste-up table . |
7 | It would be easier to convince senior managers that Unix is a viable platform if all systems were seen to work in the same way , regardless of what was underneath . |
8 | However , if the reason for the closure is that your employer has transferred his business to someone else , there may be no dismissal because you have been automatically transferred to work for the new owner ( see below ) . |
9 | The human mind — which , from this viewpoint , is the brain — is said to work on the same plan as a computer , with operations being carried out on physical symbols . |
10 | One of the characteristics of many of the people who are drawn to work in the social services is a strong commitment to those services . |
11 | 5-Aminosalicylic acid ( 5-ASA ) is the active ingredient of sulphasalazine in ulcerative colitis , and is thought to work by a local mechanism . |
12 | To make money in engineering contracting you have got to work at the blue chip end of the market , people who want a top class value-for-money service and are prepared to pay a reasonable price for it . |
13 | In this way , communication is enhanced in written and oral modes to develop the expertise needed to work in an international office environment . |
14 | In 1958 she was invited to work for the Gulbenkian Foundation where , as Director of Music she initiated an ambitious programme of activities , including the formation of the Gulbenkian orchestra , choir and ballet company . |
15 | The third set of attitudes relate to those who are known to my Asian colleagues as the ‘ muesli missionaries ’ ( as in ‘ Miranda had an unhappy love affair/acne/a need to save the world , so she has gone to work with the ethnic minorities ’ . ) |
16 | Quitting after a fracas he had gone to work as a literary agent and had prospered . |
17 | A recently qualified medical student from St. Mary 's , C. G. Paine , who had been taught by Fleming and who had gone to work in the Royal Infirmary at Sheffield , obtained a sample of the mould from his former teacher and carried out some clinical experiments with it . |
18 | If employees are asked to work in a different location on a temporary basis it is unlikely that they will need to move home . |
19 | Induction has been observed to work on a large number of occasions . |
20 | Mark West , 26 , of St James ' Close has been appointed to work for the British Embassy , in Ankara , Turkey . |
21 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
22 | For a while he was seconded to work with the Dutch Section of SOE but in May 1944 during the preparations for the Normandy landings , Blake was posted to naval headquarters at Portsmouth as an interpreter with Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ) . |
23 | In recent years , research at Oxford has focused on how the planning system has been put to work in the past decade . |
24 | 15.37 ( i ) Pupils working towards level 6 should be encouraged to work in a wider range of situations in which their individual contributions are given greater emphasis . |
25 | In the USA a lawyer is allowed to work on a contingent fee system . |
26 | For example , many people at the Royal Brompton and National Heart hospital tell me that some of the special health authorities should be allowed to win new patients and the money that comes with them by being allowed to work in the internal market . |
27 | Most of the titles have continued to work on a similar principle , whereby the title and image work towards a paradoxical suggestive propriety . |
28 | In fact my whole being was permeated by the leaden-armed pervading weakness one feels when forced to work in the small hours . |
29 | Vietnam had withdrawn from the organization in 1985 [ see p. 34651 ] following allegations first made in 1981 that thousands of Vietnamese had been sent to work in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to earn money for the repayment of Vietnamese government debts [ see pp. 31592-93 ; 32675 ] . |
30 | I am aware of agency nurses who have turned up at a hospital expecting to work on a ward caring for elderly people , only to be sent to work in the intensive care unit . |