Example sentences of "work for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One dealer left Harvard to work for a Continental outfit called European Equity Research . |
| 2 | The British LFS permits temporary workers to differentiate themselves between those engaged on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis and those contracted to work for a fixed period of time or to undertake a fixed task . |
| 3 | The Emperor deplored the bellicosity of language and continued to work for a peaceful settlement , using the King of the Belgians as an intermediary , at the same time maintaining close contact with the Spanish Ambassador in Paris . |
| 4 | I used to work for a young lady who loved roses , you see , and she had a lot in her garden . |
| 5 | She married a colleague who then left to work for a rival firm . |
| 6 | When the converted attained the faith they were no longer merely formal Christians and were predisposed to work for a righteous world . |
| 7 | New work patterns , such a partial shifts , mean that senior house officers are less likely to work for a single consultant and also make it more difficult for all junior doctors to attend teaching sessions at set times . |
| 8 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 9 | Employees require information to determine whether , in the first place , to work for a public sector agency and subsequently to determine when to press for salary increases or an enhancement of conditions of employment . |
| 10 | The voluntary non-statutory sector was able to extend provision because it could attract the services of people who would not be prepared to work for a public authority . |
| 11 | After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed . |
| 12 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 13 | It 's quite good to work for a big concern like that then really ? |
| 14 | What I did n't want was to work for a large organisation . |
| 15 | Increasingly , the tendency is to work for a large number of companies in rapid succession . |
| 16 | Getting these two sets of very different people to work for a common cause is n't always easy but , as well as you can , make sure both understand that : |
| 17 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best way to preserve the integrity of Croatia is to work for a permanent settlement after a lasting ceasefire , and that recognition is just one of the issues that has to be sorted out before there can be a successful conclusion ? |
| 19 | She worked in the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune for a while and later she went to Switzerland to work for the International Labour Office of the United Nations . |
| 20 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 21 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | That , in war and in peace , you will strive , with your prayers and with what material aid you can summon , to work for the sole weal of Scotia ? |
| 24 | Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie ! |
| 25 | It was fear of the Soviet military threat which led many US administrations to work for the political unification of Europe — a process in many ways inimical to their own interests — and to urge the United Kingdom to play her part . |
| 26 | It was to work for the complete organisation of all ship , dock and river workers in order to raise their wages and improve their working conditions . |
| 27 | Men are in voluntarily unemployed if , in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage , both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment . |
| 28 | ‘ I was so keen to work for the Labour Party , ’ he says . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | My sights were wide-ranging " I 'd like to work for the Daily Mirror or the Telegraph , " I informed my friends , as I sank a pint in the way I 'd seen the big-boys do at the time of the by-election . |