Example sentences of "[Wh pn] worked [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 2 | Moggridge Associates ' designer Martin Darbyshire , who worked on a small fax machine for a Scandinavian manufacturer , endorses the view that the appeal of fax still lies in what it can do , not what it looks like . |
| 3 | Just then , Donna , who worked on the front desk , came trotting across the lawn towards them . |
| 4 | The possible movement of a mosaicist from this region to Trier is also a conventional explanation ( if a partial one ) of the eventual fate of the mosaicists who worked on the finest and final pavement , at Woodchester : in the Palastplatz in Trier a panel similar to one of the geometric panels of the ambulatory of the Woodchester Orpheus was found ( Parlasca 1959 , pI . |
| 5 | We wish those who worked on the interim advisory committee well and we look forward to the next phase in the determination of teachers ' pay which is the work of the pay review body under the chairmanship of Sir Graham Day . |
| 6 | That is a throw-back to my days as a junior reporter when I used to play with another junior who worked on the rival weekly , the North Devon Journal Herald His name was David Vine , later to become the BBC 's commentator on snooker and winter sports . |
| 7 | The owner , Christian Brisset told us that there was a journalist in Cherbourg who had written five books on the history of the town during the war — Paul Ingouf — who worked on the local newspaper La Presse de la Manche , was an historian and kept extensive records . |
| 8 | She had to be able to liaise with the local authorities , professionals in the social services , and people with specialist knowledge who worked on the Advisory Boards . |
| 9 | The Carlton Girls , one of the many Tiller troupes who worked on the exhausting cine-variety circuits |
| 10 | The Conservatives , after flirting with the idea of a Labour style ‘ shadow ’ agency of volunteers , is back with Saatchi , but a Saatchi where many of the key personnel who worked on the Tory account in previous years ( notably Michael Dobbs , the agency 's former deputy chairman and once a Tory Central Office staffer himself ) have departed . |
| 11 | A postmortem examination at Middlesbrough General Hospital carried out by Home Office pathologist Dr James Sunter revealed that Mr McEvoy , who worked for a local bus company , died of a gunshot wound . |
| 12 | Neurosurgeons have already operated on Michael , who worked for a local builders ' merchant , and a team of specialists are keeping a round-the-clock watch on his condition . |
| 13 | The principal members were a private secretary , Oliver Everett , who worked for the diplomatic service and was recalled from Madrid to set up her office ; and Anne Beckwith-Smith , a specialist in eighteenth-century English painting , who worked at Sotheby 's and was brought in as full-time lady-in-waiting . |
| 14 | The court heard how Cook , who worked for the Baptist Church in Corporation Road , Darlington , locked the girl in a room . |
| 15 | It is symbolic that a Babylonian text records a payment of oil to Jehoiakin , the son of the king of Judah , and to seven Greek carpenters who worked for the Babylonian court ( Ancient Near Eastern Texts , 2 ed. , p. 308 ) . |
| 16 | Frank , who worked for the Coventry-based business for 10 years before retiring on medical grounds , is now disabled and the money is paying for a £2,127 electric wheelchair . |
| 17 | The journalists who worked for the popular newspapers were only concerned to please their readers , and the truth was irrelevant . |
| 18 | The other was her secret lover , smooth , Australian-born lawyer Phillip Levy , who worked for the same newspaper . |
| 19 | The Institute of Environmental Assessment ( IEA ) was set up by Dr Tim Coles , who worked for the National Rivers Authority , to act as an impartial and independent watchdog and to raise the standard of environmental impact assessments and statements , which — under European law — must be submitted to planning authorities with planning applications . |
| 20 | Tom , who worked for the British Caprotti poppet valve-gear manufacturers , Associated Locomotive Equipment Ltd , was instrumental , not only in the original design of 71000 , but also in the rebuilt carried out by the Trust . |
| 21 | Sheila Baughan , who worked at a local school , was found holding a telephone . |
| 22 | Dependents of one man who worked at the controversial Sellafield plant in Cumbria and died of lung cancer in 1989 received a ‘ quarter payment ’ of £15,243 . |
| 23 | One notes S. A. Waksman ( 1888–1973 ) , who worked at the Agricultural Experimental Station of the State University of New Jersey . |
| 24 | It is a sentiment shared by many — and especially those who worked at the once-thriving Basingstoke office , now destined for the annals of feed industry history . |
| 25 | But now she raised her eyes and did look , differently , at Alice , the housemate of a Council official who worked at the main office for this area . |
| 26 | The last recorded miller was Duncan Preston , who worked during the 1880s and '90s . |
| 27 | We will always be grateful to the doctors and nurses who worked during the festive season , as well as all year round . |
| 28 | Most of the mothers were nurses who worked in a civilian hospital , but were part-time reservists in the US Army and were posted to Saudi Arabia at short notice in the run-up to the war . |
| 29 | Its wealth depended on the scientists who worked in a large lab behind the administrative block . |
| 30 | The major was also writing to Emma and a mother-of-three who worked in a northern factory . |