Example sentences of "[noun pl] to work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ In cases of multiple debt , we reckon on 12 hours to work through the inquiry , ’ she added .
2 He then goes on to criticise Labour for suggesting that priority spending on education and training can help overcome the difficulties of the balance of payments deficit — because such investment programmes take generations to work through the system .
3 It is unrealistic in these times to work on the assumption that profit sharing ratios , once fixed , are sacrosanct only ever to be changed when the number of partners changes .
4 The reason behind SIP is , according to POSC president , Dan Turner , that ‘ for every dollar that companies spend on software , they spend $1.50 to $2.00 more to get their programmes to work with the rest of their systems .
5 It included funding to employ 414,000 teenagers to work in the summer of 1992 in jobs administered through the Department of Labour .
6 I am pleased to be able to tell my hon. Friend that the new structures and management priorities of the health service led the health authority to appoint a new ophthalmology consultant last week to provide extra sessions to work through the waiting list .
7 In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ .
8 The inadequacies of this egalitarian approach lead some lesbian psychologists to work outside the Division of the Psychology of Women and the AWP , in feminist and lesbian feminist organizations which grant sexuality more significance .
9 For example , in attracting individuals to work for the firm , salary and other individual rewards are very important .
10 An essential part of developing an effective multicultural curriculum will be the willingness of individuals to work within the field whilst being prepared to recognise that the mistakes they make will be the lessons for future teachers .
11 So , with none of his rearguard involved internationally , Howard Wilkinson , who has constantly highlighted the shortcomings of a congested fixture list , had the luxury of 11 free days to work on the problem .
12 Jack Rothera , an ex-Navy man , had wished from his boyhood days to work on the railway .
13 To her surprise , they agreed that she could continue to work for PW three days a week , leaving her two days to work on the business .
14 The sane constable rapidly learnt to withstand the pressure from his seniors to work by the book .
15 The 13th reform were believed to be sufficient to allow locos to work over the bridge and it is understood that 37/4 's will not be allowed over .
16 But Jane Sloan , of Cornwall SSD , feel more money needs to be made available as ‘ we have n't got enough money to get the resources to work with the problem .
17 ‘ During their time here , the boys go once a week for two whole terms to work with the community — with the elderly or in special schools , or in our nursery .
18 Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool .
19 Under the contract , Auspace will provide specialist space scientists to work on the instrument package with the team at Mount Stromlo .
20 The year has brought its usual crop of visiting scholars to work on the College Archives and the Library 's Special Collections .
21 Scarborough need one or two experienced players to work alongside the line-up of enthusiastic YTS players McHale has fielded recently , said the chairman .
22 In her Juilliard classes , she advised her pupils to work within the rubato available to the conductor .
23 It was in this spirit that Bernard gave Jane , at eighteen , a professional 's Hasselblad camera and appointed her company photographer , the first of their children to work for the company .
24 Most families in a village like this expect their children to work on the farm when they get older , but in this case it was different .
25 1983 ) caused children to work outside the parent 's sphere of authority , rendering children 's behaviour and working circumstances a target for state as well as family control .
26 Soviet spokesmen naturally used various arguments to encourage the neutralists to work for the dissolution of CENTO and SEATO , but Soviet leaders may have recognised already in the 1960s that these alliances were operating more effectively as political symbols than as military structures .
27 ‘ Of course , we could put the forensic boys to work in the drawing-room and on the van ; we could repeat the operation in Jordan 's kitchen , at Mary Penrose 's and Laura Passmore 's … ’
28 What Muslim men do n't like is for their women to work outside the home , potentially in the company of strange men .
29 The SLL was opposed to women 's suffrage as a bourgeois demand , but fully supported the right of women to work outside the home .
30 Of the three broad proposals considered , this would encourage women to work on the market .
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