Example sentences of "was work for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its immediate economic aim was to work for the reduction and eventual elimination of tariffs on most industrial goods among its members . |
| 2 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 3 | From the 1780s , the mill was worked for the production of both white and brown paper , passing through the hands of J. Stephens , W. Stephens and James Stevens . |
| 4 | Stella , unwilling to change his design and substitute a different and cheaper material , was working for the museum on a ‘ sale or return ’ basis and has agreed not to charge the museum . |
| 5 | ‘ So why did Urquhart keep telling me Mills probably was working for the Russians ? ’ |
| 6 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 7 | ‘ All he told me was that he was working for the Sovbloc desk at Six , and they were looking for a deserter , but he did n't even have Blagg 's name . |
| 8 | She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge . |
| 9 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |
| 10 | Hayling had been excluded from becoming a Founder first because of his job policing the project for the GLC grant , and then because he was working for the company . |
| 11 | I was working for the company er , in Leicester , called making cotton lisles for twelve years , fifteen years ago . |
| 12 | While he was working for the K.K.K. , he sent the pips to frighten those three men . |
| 13 | The elder son was working for the father as usual . |
| 14 | Mills was probably murdered because he was working for the KGB . |
| 15 | The new Public Appointments Unit set up in 1975 to revivify the List was run by Jonathan Charkham , a well-heeled nomad who had begun his career as a barrister , went into industry , and by the late eighties was working for the Bank of England . |
| 16 | At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to . |
| 17 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |