Example sentences of "who work on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , the superintendents and foremen who worked on the factory floor , many having themselves been skilled machinists , sided with the operators and consequently nothing happened to change the balance of power .
2 The family of a murder victim have accepted a donation to a trust fund in their son 's name from detectives who worked on the case .
3 He may have been the ‘ Maister Vartu ’ who worked on the church of St Mary-at-Hill in London in 1502 , and the ‘ Vertu the mason ’ paid for a new window at St Anthony 's Hospital , Threadneedle Street , London .
4 Had he pressed on he might none the less have taken Newcastle , which contained many Jacobite sympathisers , but while he dallied , turning aside to Hexham , 15 miles [ 24 km ] west of the city , the Newcastle magistrates called out the militia and trained bands , mobilised a force of 700 tough keelmen , who worked on the lighters in the harbour , patched up the ancient city wall , though they lacked cannon to defend it , and bricked up the gates .
5 Graham Evans , of Blundellsands , was an apprentice who worked on the Spirit of Merseyside and later served aboard as bosun .
6 Large areas of the South and West remained untouched by the growth of the manufacturing industries , and in spite of the stimulating effect of the Napoleonic Wars upon certain sections of the economy , most of those who worked on the land steadily became poorer .
7 If it is hard to generalize about the pattern of farming , it is no easier to summarize the resources or standing of the men who worked on the land .
8 In theory , those who worked on the farms were capable of supporting themselves .
9 Design faults at the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania would make it impossible for operators to control a nuclear accident , according to engineers who worked on the plant 's construction .
10 Both end walls have paintings of 1710 by the Jesuit , Tausch , a copyist who worked on the cartoons of the Italian fresco painter , Andrea del Pozzo .
11 I did have a chin tuck , and the lady who worked on the book with me said , ‘ Now , Elizabeth , you know we 're going to be together for months and we have to be absolutely honest with each other .
12 There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project .
13 ‘ You 'd have to get hold of someone who worked on the project to tell you the details .
14 Reynolds said , ‘ You say that of all the people who worked on the project , none of them are still here ? ’
15 These are made by a gentleman called Adrian er erm who worked on the house as a as a labourer er but was so taken with it all he took to becoming a medieval furniture maker , has been ever since .
16 The gipsy , who worked on the farm ? ’ he cried .
17 When I er er were in the tool room at , Newark at the age of twenty one plus , you see , not twenty two er I was approached then by a shop steward who worked on the bench , was a fitter .
18 No , Mr Patel was very sorry , no , he had not seen the face of the man who worked on the car .
19 The aim was to give an impression of the atmosphere of the line and its district A particular point made was that the BCRS wishes to contact people who worked on the line or have other personal reminiscences of it .
20 It is estimated that there are around 9,000 women who work on the streets or in the bars of Olongapo as prostitutes or ’ hospitality workers ’ .
21 This study sets out to examine , albeit in a preliminary way , just how the rapid changes in the Scottish agricultural industry in the post-war years have affected those who work on the land .
22 But erm certainly with this style of hat was commonly worn I suppose to his and by the people who work on the land , certainly in this part of the world .
23 There has been no change in the total number of farmers and those in their families — 47,800 who work on the land .
24 When you start in public relations , you need to meet journalists who work on the newspapers : press receptions , product launches , pubs around Fleet Street , the Press Club — there are many ways to do this .
25 I think some stations might do that , but they only do it if , if it 's , if it 's not going to be detrimental to the turn out , in other words they , they have a system , erm for instance they have a duty crew over the weekend , so that at least some can take their families to the seaside if they wanted to , so six will remain around the house er er but they do have some system , but I think the majority of fire stations , there are twenty seven in Suffolk like that , who work on the system of getting there as quickly as they can , and that is the best competition to get there , to get the ride .
26 That no similar slogan has come from the car workers is important , and is tied up with the fact that ‘ the car plants for the car workers ’ makes no sense to the lads who work on the line .
27 Guatemala 's large seasonal migrant population , who work on the coffee and cotton plantations for part of the year , sometimes migrate over the border to the plantations in southern Mexico .
28 All the sounds of the valley end here in my room , and the women speak in front of me — of Hywel and Beuno and Elizabeth and me — and the men who work on the farm piss in the hedgerow in front of me because they all think I am dead .
29 Around 170 nuclear scientists , who work on the JET project at Culham in Oxfordshire , started the first of a series of one day strikes at midnight .
30 King , who works on the Earl of Leicester 's Holkham estate , picked up a four on the fourth end to go 7–1 ahead and increased his lead to 11–2 .
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