Example sentences of "work [prep] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company also insisted that he learnt a bit about the business he would soon be running , sending him to work in the busy Birmingham store for a month . |
| 2 | It resulted in last year 's decision to close the European exploration headquarters in Glasgow with the transfer of key personnel to work from the main North Sea operational base in Aberdeen , a process which should be completed by the end of this year . |
| 3 | Already LLNL has tried it out on nerve gas surrogates such as dimethyl methyl phosphonate and methyl phosphonic acid , and it seems to work on the crucial C-P bonds . |
| 4 | He continues to work on the stalled Uruguay Round of GATT talks , and in his speech to the American Legion in August , he talked about more bilateral agreements with other parts of the world . |
| 5 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |
| 6 | It is a sentiment shared by many — and especially those who worked at the once-thriving Basingstoke office , now destined for the annals of feed industry history . |
| 7 | Dependents of one man who worked at the controversial Sellafield plant in Cumbria and died of lung cancer in 1989 received a ‘ quarter payment ’ of £15,243 . |
| 8 | George Messenger , a seventy-nine-year-old neighbour , worked at the nearby Snape Maltings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The vast majority worked in the old GWR Works taken over by British Rail after the war . |
| 11 | The ones who had worked on the previous Hayling dummy , including photographer Tom Picton and his daughter Zoe , had good reason to fear that Sutton , given a free hand , would get rid of them . |
| 12 | A labourer complained , " touching in particular the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor , not finding a house and providing labour or work for the said William Ashton to do in the parish " . |
| 13 | Farzad Bazoft , an Iranian-born freelance journalist with British residency rights working for the London-based Sunday newspaper the Observer , was hanged as a spy in Baghdad on March 15 . |
| 14 | We decided to offer our trainees two days a week in our training centre , working towards the general SVQ , plus three days ' practical training in a work placement , where they could be assessed for the SVQ . |
| 15 | What was it like working with the late John Huston ? |
| 16 | SIX stage-struck students from St Mary 's Sixth Form College , Middlesbrough , seized the chance of a lifetime this week when they were offered the opportunity of working with the Royal Shakespeare Company , says a recent school report . |
| 17 | Working in the Mid Wales Mental Hospital , Talgarth , was well as in a mental Resource Centre , Tessa is convinced that painting and drawing give the patients a rare sense of self-worth . |
| 18 | The versatility of gouache makes it an ideal medium for working in the rugged New Zealand landscape . |
| 19 | Jensen and Christiansen ( 1986 ) , working in the south-eastern USA , use a raster approach ( with a pixel resolution of 20 m² ; ) and Boolean overlay to ‘ weed out ’ particular sites , such as those which are poorly drained , environmentally sensitive or inaccessible ( see also Stewart 1987 ) . |
| 20 | Thousands of garimpeiro gold miners who have been ejected from the Yanomami reserve in Brazil are moving across the border into Venezuela , to join an estimated 5,000 already working in the so-called El Dorada triangle , seeking alluvial gold in the upper reaches of the Mazaruni and Cayuni rivers . |
| 21 | The geology of the Shetlands was revised and work on the Outer Hebrides is in progress . |
| 22 | At the Gleneagles Hotel , work on the new Jack Nicklaus designed Monarch championship golf course is nearing completion , ready for the official tee off in May 1993 . |
| 23 | On the other hand , Ted McCarty ( Gibson 's president , main designer and the man who did the most work on the nascent Les Paul ) has said that the decision to make the Custom definitely came after the introduction of the gold-top . |
| 24 | Those working on the eventual PowerPC version of the Apple Macintosh , as opposed to providing a Macintosh environment within an X Window under Unix , are thought to favour the emulation model at present . |
| 25 | Those working on the eventual PowerPC version of the Apple Macintosh , as opposed to providing a Macintosh environment within an X-Window under Unix , are thought to favour the emulation model at present . |
| 26 | We know your mother works at the Royal Victoria Hospital , they told him , we know where your sister works , and there are sectarian killings down there . |
| 27 | Among the thirty-eight pictures on show are portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough , work by the Liverpool-born George Stubbs and the recently acquired ‘ Portrait of Mr and Mrs Fleetwood ’ by Joseph Wright of Derby . |