Example sentences of "work for the [adj] [noun] " 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 | The Prussians were horrified to learn that in Pomerania and Danzig the surviving Polish nobility were reluctant to work for the new authorities and much preferred to lease out their estates to tenant farmers while they lived off the income in Warsaw . |
| 4 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I was so keen to work for the Labour Party , ’ he says . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | Mark West , 26 , of St James ' Close has been appointed to work for the British Embassy , in Ankara , Turkey . |
| 16 | The officer said people should lose their sectional interests , should learn to accept orders and to work for the common good . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 20 | I do n't see how they can work for the Royal Family , either . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But why should someone murder him decades later because he betrayed his country and worked for the Soviet Union ? |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The court heard how Cook , who worked for the Baptist Church in Corporation Road , Darlington , locked the girl in a room . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Dursun , once a cleric , worked for the left-wing weekly Towards 2000 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When I worked for the Daily Telegraph , the editor , Bill Deedes , would say that he never missed the letters column of the Guardian . |