Example sentences of "work [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will not , though , be able to work off the remaining seven games until he joins a new club . |
| 2 | Frenzied attempts to work off the festive flab can lead to muscle and tendon injuries as people try to do too much too quickly . |
| 3 | It is this bracing action which allows the legs to work during the forward swing . |
| 4 | When you plan your programme , start with the social and personal free time for shopping or relaxation that the participants ought to have to encourage their brains to work during the meaty sessions . |
| 5 | For example , a worker who is unaware that exposure to high levels of benzene , as happens in some chemical plants , might cause cancer will be willing to work for a lower wage than she would if this information were widely available . |
| 6 | One dealer left Harvard to work for a Continental outfit called European Equity Research . |
| 7 | The British LFS permits temporary workers to differentiate themselves between those engaged on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis and those contracted to work for a fixed period of time or to undertake a fixed task . |
| 8 | The Emperor deplored the bellicosity of language and continued to work for a peaceful settlement , using the King of the Belgians as an intermediary , at the same time maintaining close contact with the Spanish Ambassador in Paris . |
| 9 | I used to work for a young lady who loved roses , you see , and she had a lot in her garden . |
| 10 | She married a colleague who then left to work for a rival firm . |
| 11 | When the converted attained the faith they were no longer merely formal Christians and were predisposed to work for a righteous world . |
| 12 | I used to work for a certain er c er creamery there . |
| 13 | It is a sense of revulsion at injustice and poverty and denied opportunity , whether at home or abroad , which impels people to work for a better world , to become , as in our case , democratic socialists . |
| 14 | Revulsion at injustice , poverty and denied opportunity , he says , impels people to work for a better world . |
| 15 | The two meetings on which I have reported to the House have shown our determination to work for a safer world and a new partnership with Russia in the cause of peace . |
| 16 | Patricia , 17 , goes to a sweatshop in Rio to work for a less than minimum wage . |
| 17 | New work patterns , such a partial shifts , mean that senior house officers are less likely to work for a single consultant and also make it more difficult for all junior doctors to attend teaching sessions at set times . |
| 18 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 19 | Employees require information to determine whether , in the first place , to work for a public sector agency and subsequently to determine when to press for salary increases or an enhancement of conditions of employment . |
| 20 | The voluntary non-statutory sector was able to extend provision because it could attract the services of people who would not be prepared to work for a public authority . |
| 21 | After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed . |
| 22 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 23 | It 's quite good to work for a big concern like that then really ? |
| 24 | What I did n't want was to work for a large organisation . |
| 25 | Increasingly , the tendency is to work for a large number of companies in rapid succession . |
| 26 | It became the Chancellor 's habit to interrupt his morning procession to work for a few minutes of Cabinet Room conversation with the Prime Minister . |
| 27 | ‘ You wo n't be going back to work for a few days , I 'm afraid , Francisco . ’ |
| 28 | Many firms offer training two years in advance but they tend to be the larger organisations and if you wish to work for a smaller firm or , for example , a local authority , you often need to apply nearer the time . |
| 29 | Getting these two sets of very different people to work for a common cause is n't always easy but , as well as you can , make sure both understand that : |
| 30 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |