Example sentences of "work [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alex Cockburn , later to work for Black Dwarf and 7 Days before decamping to the States and a 1970s career on Village Voice , provided a somewhat withdrawn interview with the New Statesman 's then right-wing socialist editor Paul Johnson . |
| 2 | I have set out our determination to work for that agreement and the principles on which the agreement will need to be based . |
| 3 | ‘ We recruit people who can identify with our high standards , all staff are recruited with the specific client in mind and continue to work for that client only . |
| 4 | They 've got together to form a barter scheme , using a special currency which allows them to work for each other without REAL money changing hands . |
| 5 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 6 | Here your training intensity is such that you are pushed to work for one minute , let alone the 20 required for aerobic training ! |
| 7 | Such a tax is seen as having lower disincentive effects than an income tax because it relates to past effort ; i.e. there is no disincentive effect to work for additional income that is to be consumed . |
| 8 | ‘ We began to work for this journey two years ago . |
| 9 | This was quite clearly not an agreement between the employer and the employee but had the effect of being an indirect restraint on any employee who wanted to work for another member of the trade association within the two year period . |
| 10 | Canan and her boss know exactly what to expect from each other : ‘ It 's far easier for me to work for another Turk because I can talk about pay rates and things like that more openly . |
| 11 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 12 | The court discussed the example of a solicitor 's clerk and said that in such a case it would be improper for him to work for another solicitor in his spare time . |
| 13 | No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training . |
| 14 | ‘ Members of this tribe were by no means ready to work for any European who asked them to ’ , wrote Elspeth Huxley ; ‘ They were very particular and only entered the service of men whom they liked . ’ |
| 15 | 1.1 Duty not to compete within the duration of the employment contract This aspect of the duty of fidelity requires the employee not to work for any person who is or who might be in competition with his employer during the working day . |
| 16 | Both sides appeared keen to work for some kind of reconciliation , although how much of their willingness to co-operate was purely political was never made clear . |
| 17 | Soon it became clear that Sarah was seriously ill with rheumatic fever and would not be able to work for some time , and another girl , Hetty , was engaged temporarily . |
| 18 | Phone call from our School Nurse to let us know that the School Doctor , who had to cancel medicals because of illness , is out of hospital but will not be back to work for some time . |
| 19 | The trade unions fear that wage demands may have to be lowered because of the refugees ' greater flexibility and readiness to work for less money . |
| 20 | A similar agreement between Nicaragua , Panama and the USA was signed on June 27 , binding all three countries to work for freer trade and to consult regularly with one another on trade issues . |
| 21 | In the early 1930's , both the Buckau and the Barbara had their rotors taken off and they went back to work as ordinary motor vessels . |
| 22 | We are extremely fortunate that has agreed to continue to work as part-time Secretary to the Society and she will be there to deal personally with any Q.T 's queries etc on those days . |
| 23 | The teacher explains that he will be asking the class to work as one group . |
| 24 | Others relied on informal feedback such as , ‘ many of our house officers want to return here to work as senior house officers . ’ |
| 25 | Oh , by the way , you 've got to work through this video . |
| 26 | The reader is invited to work through this example ; we avoid repetitive labour by the use of hindsight . |
| 27 | The German middle classes and the German Catholics in particular knew that the Prussian Poles were no great threat to the state , yet in spite of their protests , the Junker-dominated Government found it essential to work through crude Völkisch opinion to maintain itself and divert the impending revolution . |
| 28 | In accordance with legislation in force at the time of adoption of the Savings Related Share Option Scheme in 1990 the Rules provide that employees may exercise their options on reaching state pension age , even if they continue to work after that date . |
| 29 | Reform of the United Nations so as to work towards greater representativeness , accountability and independence . |
| 30 | However , strong competition from quality-minded foreign competitors forces manufacturers to work towards absolute quality and to realize that quality and cost are complementary — raising quality decreases cost . |