Example sentences of "work for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I was so keen to work for the Labour Party , ’ he says . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mark West , 26 , of St James ' Close has been appointed to work for the British Embassy , in Ankara , Turkey . |
| 15 | The officer said people should lose their sectional interests , should learn to accept orders and to work for the common good . |
| 16 | In this tradition the state is perceived as the vehicle by which the unity of the nation should be achieved in order to work for the common good . |
| 17 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 18 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 19 | I do n't see how they can work for the Royal Family , either . |
| 20 | Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour . |
| 21 | But why should someone murder him decades later because he betrayed his country and worked for the Soviet Union ? |
| 22 | It is symbolic that a Babylonian text records a payment of oil to Jehoiakin , the son of the king of Judah , and to seven Greek carpenters who worked for the Babylonian court ( Ancient Near Eastern Texts , 2 ed. , p. 308 ) . |
| 23 | The principal members were a private secretary , Oliver Everett , who worked for the diplomatic service and was recalled from Madrid to set up her office ; and Anne Beckwith-Smith , a specialist in eighteenth-century English painting , who worked at Sotheby 's and was brought in as full-time lady-in-waiting . |
| 24 | Frank , who worked for the Coventry-based business for 10 years before retiring on medical grounds , is now disabled and the money is paying for a £2,127 electric wheelchair . |
| 25 | The court heard how Cook , who worked for the Baptist Church in Corporation Road , Darlington , locked the girl in a room . |
| 26 | The second Earl of Clarendon was involved in the Preston Plot of 1690 , as was Bishop Turner of Ely , whilst at various times Charles Leslie and George Hickes worked for the exiled Court . |
| 27 | Dursun , once a cleric , worked for the left-wing weekly Towards 2000 . |
| 28 | Counc tonight it was mentioned the actual the work of the Regional Health Authority and , again , I worked for the Regional Health Authority a long time ago . |
| 29 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |
| 30 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |