Example sentences of "work [art] same [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I suppose it 's too much to expect a senior Queen 's Counsel to work the same hours as ordinary folk , ’ Bragg said grumpily .
2 But the features that make Mr President sexy do n't work the same trick when the man behind them is thought to be a vacuum cleaner salesman from Bolton .
3 Food colour pens work the same way as felt tips , but are non-toxic .
4 The proposed system works the same way as summer E grades , with a Roman numeral ( I-X etc ) encompassing the overall difficulty of the route including seriousness , protection , sustainedness and length , and an Arabic numeral ( 1–10 etc ) to reflect the technical difficulty of the hardest pitch or crux sequence .
5 But it works the same way as ordinary language .
6 Endesha Ida Mae Holland , the author of this veiled autobiography , is described in the programme as a popular lecturer and ‘ story-teller ’ : she works the same seam as Maya Angelou , Toni Morrison and Alice Walker ( whose spirit she fulsomely invokes , and whose book The Color Purple she implicitly recalls at every turn ) .
  Next page