Example sentences of "out [prep] work [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He had often been out of work during the boy ‘ s early years in the west of Sheffield ‘ where the city meanders in a smokey , greasy straggle of workshops into Rotherham ’ .
2 And then the camps you see , during the war , you see people were out of work during the war e before the war in Rhos-y-Bol .
3 You can still use the linker , so long as there are some needles out of work between the needles holding the second shoulder ( and the neckline ) and the needles of the shoulder being cast off .
4 The proposal is to guarantee a place on ET , or any other training , education , pre-employment course , for those who have been out of work over a set period of time .
5 The left , in its turn , is appalled that people who are thrown out of work through no fault of their own should then be required to undertake slave labour to qualify for the benefits that are due to them .
6 Pensioners who have given a lifetime 's service to the nation should not be asked to pay for a T V licence , and those out of work through no fault of their own , except for a government policy .
7 There have been long spells out of work through a mixture of choice and lack of good stuff : ‘ I do n't think there are that many things that one wants to do . ’
8 Unemployment means a period commencing after the effective date of insurance during which the Insured Borrower is out of work as a result of redundancy as defined in the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 or any amendment thereto , dismissal where the contract under which the Insured Borrower is employed is terminated by the employer , or the financial insolvency of the business of the Insured Borrower 's employer or the business of the Insured Borrower' .
9 in respect of employed persons , out of work as a result of redundancy as defined in the Employment Protection ( Consolidated ) Act 1978 , as amended , dismissal where the contract under which the Insured Customer is employed is terminated by the Employer , or the declared bankruptcy or liquidation of the business of the Insured Customer 's employer .
10 Toshack was out of work at the time , so I passed on the offer .
11 Seasonally adjusted figures released yesterday put the number out of work at 2,971,100 — 22,000 down .
12 In the North another 200 people lost their jobs , taking the number out of work to 153,800 an unemployment rate of 11.1pc , the highest in mainland Britain .
13 UNEMPLOYMENT increased by 40,200 last month to reach its highest total for four years The increase took the number out of work to 2,647,300 figures immediately seized on by Labour and Lib-Dems and used to attack the Tory jobs record .
14 Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away .
15 CONTROVERSIAL regulations come into force today requiring people out of work for more than 13 weeks to accept low-paid jobs or risk losing their benefit .
16 The Government forecasts that the number of people out of work for more than two years will fall from 550,000 in April 1989 to 325,000 by April 1991 .
17 Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years .
18 We will aim to guarantee everyone out of work for six months or more a place on either a high quality training programme or on a work programme with a strong element of training .
19 Industrial unrest followed , culminating in the great hand-loom weavers ' strike of 1825 , when 5,000 weavers and countless thousands of allied workers were out of work for three months .
20 Just over 4 in 10 ( 42% ) dependent children in 1987 lived in a household where the head had been out of work for two or more years .
21 MORE than one in five of the 2,329 young people seeking jobs and training in Hampshire have been out of work for more than six months .
22 ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . )
23 But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) .
24 But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) .
25 Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October .
26 Coventry boss Bobby Gould said : ‘ We had a 17-year-old Irishman , an 18-year-old Zimbabwean , a postman who was out of work for 18 months and an on-loan forward .
27 905,000 out of work for a year
28 At a time when structural unemployment means that many — particularly the young — will be out of work for long periods of time , the old individualistic idea that ‘ all we need is a bit of enterprise and motivation ’ seems to get stronger the more inappropriate it becomes .
29 Her husband has been out of work for three years , but her life as the breadwinner was quite unlike his .
30 He has been out of work for years .
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