Example sentences of "[noun sg] works [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The therapy works on the system that energy is present throughout the body : there are places where it gathers or is near the surface of the skin . |
| 2 | The therapy works on the principle that like cures like . |
| 3 | The local government lawyer works at the centre of the organisation using professional skills in support of the chief executive , the management team and the departments that provide the services for the public . |
| 4 | What if an employee works during the Maternity Pay Period ( MPP ) ? |
| 5 | Many consider this check a waste of time , but experience has shown that — provided you have studied effectively — the sub-conscious mind works on the problems after you have read them through . |
| 6 | The mind works on the body in strange ways ; an intense experience , a powerful dream . |
| 7 | For the classic Ulster pear-shaped woman , step aerobics works on the areas you 'd rather not think about , that is hips , thighs and bum . |
| 8 | At each stage , the programme works on the structure of your hair , helping it to look as healthy as nature intended . |
| 9 | In 1799 , together with business partners , he opened the St. Rollox Chemical Works on the north side of Glasgow to manufacture his bleaching powders . |
| 10 | While planning the gig , the agent works with the promoter and looks at the event 's costs . |
| 11 | The practitioner works as the officer of the organisation to test for entitlement to its services , perhaps using functional assessment methods . |
| 12 | Man will voluntarily integrate his own goals with those of the organization if management works on the assumption not that people dislike work , prefer being directed rather than taking the initiative and respond only to material rewards or threats and sanctions ; but that they have needs for autonomy and independence which must be satisfied through structures of authority that allow self-motivation and self-control . |
| 13 | Finally , in sentence ( 4 ) the parallel between Eliot and Fitzgerald is drawn explicitly , and the way the motif works in the novel is explained , so completing a miniature demonstration of what was promised in the paragraph 's opening , topic sentence . |
| 14 | A stack works on the principle of ‘ last in first out ’ ( LIFO ) . |
| 15 | An immersion heater works like the element in an electric kettle . |
| 16 | There are dozens of specialist works on the subject of agricultural history , and many more dealing with purely local matters . |
| 17 | Certainly the careful structuring and methodical scrupulosity of his vernacular works on the development of spiritual life betoken an academic training . |
| 18 | In order to control the degree of complexity involved , LIFESPAN insists that quality approval works from the bottom up ; in other words , a package which is contained in another package must be approved before the containing package can be approved . |
| 19 | Mrs Hamilton 's husband works on the oil rig . |
| 20 | Unlike a petrol engine with a throttle , or accelerator , to vary the amount of fuel and air being sucked into the engine , diesel works on the principle that air in a cylinder will , if it is compressed , heat enough to ignite fuel without the use of a spark plug . |
| 21 | During the extensive repair works on the building following this incident , Richard Baxter preached in St.Bride 's at the other end of Fleet Street . |
| 22 | In 1828 he became the partner of his friend and younger rival , James Muspratt [ q.v. ] , who had emigrated to Lancashire in 1822 , in building a Leblanc-process soda works on the St Helens canal . |
| 23 | Le Quement claims that all this is only possible by having a single drivetrain and wheel size specification but the limitation works to the car 's advantage . |
| 24 | The commission wants Britain to build sewage works at the seaside to treat bacteria before it is pumped into the sea . |
| 25 | Farms in the South-West region and sewage works in the North-West and Midlands were among the main offenders . |
| 26 | Mr Ian Cook , who travelled to the hearing with Mr Ted Hughes , the Poet Laureate , had argued that South West Water had polluted his three-quarter-mile stretch of fishing at Cowley , above Exeter , with discharges from sewage works in the summer of 1990 . |
| 27 | The BVDG is currently lobbying in Bonn and Brussels over taxation issues affecting the art market : the uncertainty of preferential tax treatment of art works by the EC in 1993 , and the German wealth tax ( Vermögenssteuer ) now levied on collections worth over DM 20,000 . |
| 28 | A report to Thursday 's recreation committee says art works in the Myles Meehan Gallery have been damaged over the past months to the tune of over £3,500 . |
| 29 | Members of Darlington recreation committee yesterday heard how more than £3,500 worth of damage had been caused to art works in the Myles Meehan Gallery over the past few months . |
| 30 | This American computer-produced service works from the principle that people with similar research interests who write articles cite the research of other people in their references . |