Example sentences of "work for a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that the Committee will be asked to work for a decision by Easter . |
| 2 | On the majority view the defendant was actually left free to work for a subsidiary of GUS which was not involved in the mail order business in the United Kingdom even though that would have been in clear breach of the restriction . |
| 3 | confirming their readiness to reinforce security , in particular by adopting effective arms control , disarmament and confidence-building measures ; their willingness not to regard each another as adversaries but to work for a relationship of trust and co-operation ; and accordingly their readiness to consider positively the setting up of appropriate institutional arrangements within the framework of the CSCE ; |
| 4 | erm I 'm very sad to be leaving Oxford , I 've very much enjoyed working here , and it 's been good to work for a council with such a high commitment to H I V , and to fighting Aids , and erm I very much the support I 've had from the committee and I hope it will continue erm in this way . |
| 5 | The talks produced agreement in principle on Feb. 3 to work for a ceasefire by Feb. 15 and for the release by March 1 of all hostages taken by rival Azerbaijani and Armenian militias , and to establish permanent relations between the two organizations . |
| 6 | I also wanted to work for a firm with work under the legal aid scheme . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was important to involve our employees and one of the interesting factors to emerge was that 88.8 per cent of them said they would be proud to work for a company with an environmental policy . ’ |
| 8 | Many had to work for a year under the threat of the axe and even those who survived continue to live in a climate of insecurity , not knowing when the next rationalisation programme is likely to be introduced . |
| 9 | She had planned to work for a year in England then take a post-graduate certificate in education at London University before going home to do her officer training in Australia . |
| 10 | Soviet and US experts , whose presence was thought to give momentum to the talks , were on hand to offer " technical " advice on the practicalities of a ceasefire [ for March agreement by the protagonists ' principal backers to work for a settlement to the civil war see p. 37365 ] . |
| 11 | A lot of the members told me I was very good — I could pull clubs well and read greens — and I should try going to the Bing Crosby to work for a pro in the tournament . |
| 12 | She would have to work for a month for that . |
| 13 | The University does work for a variety of large companies , such as Rolls Royce , I C I , Shell , B P . |
| 14 | She recalled a promise made by Mr Major when he became Prime Minister : that he would work for a nation at ease with itself . |
| 15 | Slipping between the pages of a magazine may work for a sachet of shampoo or for a soup mix , but the product can very easily slip out again and the end purchaser may not receive the sample . |
| 16 | But what upset her particularly was the last sentence : ‘ I should go and work for a week in one of my shops but — though I could even sleep on the factory floor — I ca n't understand people working in shops . ’ |
| 17 | It 'll work for a lot of them . |
| 18 | He said : it gives me hope for the future of the planet that people can work for a solution to poverty and problems and can enjoy life at the same time . |
| 19 | The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall . |
| 20 | When James left school he worked for a while with his father . |
| 21 | So do major prints by Sam Francis ( who lived and worked for a while in Japan ) . |
| 22 | She worked for a while in a shop , then she began to have trouble with her eyes and took in work at home . |
| 23 | ‘ I remember being fascinated by the story when I worked for a while in the Royal Library . |
| 24 | Considerable evidence suggests that Fromanteel and Huygens worked in close co-operation , and Fromanteel 's son John worked for a while in The Hague in 1657 under Salomon Coster , who had sole licence to construct Huygens 's pendulum clocks there . |
| 25 | The list of British craft union leaders of this period is filled with men who worked for a spell in the United States or somewhere else overseas , as they might have worked for a spell in Newcastle or Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 26 | He worked for a firm in the area of London , and that company began to negotiate with one of our Ministries for the sale of their products to the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | The death by drowning of a girl who worked for a Minister of the Crown and who died after dining at the restaurant where the Minister 's wife was also dining , whether or not he himself was present , would normally have justified at least a brief paragraph in one of the national papers . |
| 28 | ‘ He comes from Achiltibuie , and worked for a bit at the hydroponics there . |
| 29 | Many middle.class women students have gone to the FMLN camps from the cities to work as doctors , nurses or in information and educational services , Ana worked for a year in the Frente Paracentral Anastasio Aquino , one of the controlled zones in the centre of the country , with the team in charge of information and political education . |
| 30 | Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , worked for a solution in telephone calls with East German , Czechoslovak and Polish leaders , they said . |