Example sentences of "[v-ing] to work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in an effort to reach an accommodation with women trade unionists , the NUSEC rejected the traditional nineteenth-century feminist opposition to protective legislation , pledging to work for the extension of such legislation to men rather than opposing it for women . |
| 2 | Among the prime movers of La Rete , was Leoluca Orlando , who as DC mayor of Palermo had taken vigorous measures against the Mafia , but had alienated his own party hierarchy by refusing to work with the PSI and forming instead an alliance with the PCI and Greens . |
| 3 | Other areas of concern for women working or wanting to work outside the home were identified . |
| 4 | Zobel said that there had been no approaches from Japanese companies wanting to work in the OMI . |
| 5 | Internationally , the industry is seeking to work with the World Health Organisation , the European Commission and other regional authorities to develop practical alcohol policies . |
| 6 | The main reason for ceasing to work for the project was that the project itself had no suitable work to offer . |
| 7 | You know , you might have three or four lads that 's going to work in the family all , like , watching films |
| 8 | Ideally , of course , there should be the choice , especially for islanders having to work on the mainland who want to come home for the weekend . |
| 9 | William had not been happy at having to work through the night and at weekends and the tasks he had had to perform were not always pleasant . |
| 10 | Thousands of babies are born with some form of birth defect and most have immediately to go into incubators with doctors and nurses having to work round the clock to give them intensive care . |
| 11 | What is new is that we have moved from too few qualified nurses coming to work in the operating theatres , to not enough people entering nursing . |
| 12 | By then we were also starting to work on the group . |
| 13 | In his statement of claim the plaintiff admitted that since termination of the contract he had by reason of continuing to work within the insurance industry acted in such a way that , if the contract were still subsisting , he would have been in breach of clause 9A . |
| 14 | Staff at the emergency centre at Aberconwy Borough Council 's HQ in Conwy are continuing to work round the clock . |
| 15 | Learning to work with the glass at last , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) . |
| 16 | It is hoping to work on the upgrading of the West Coast main line and London 's CrossRail link , as well as the Channel Tunnel link . |
| 17 | Young people hoping to work in the bereavement business were being invited to talk to staff at the North Eastern Co-op , in Benwell , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 18 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 19 | She was planning to work in the garden with Dickon every day , to make it beautiful for the summer . |