Example sentences of "work [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , they would have had a stronger showing had not their former prime minister , Lothar de Maizière , stepped down before the election amid charges ( which he denies , and which an inquiry looks set to discuss ) that he used to work for the former East German secret police . |
| 2 | He 's come to this country to work for the former England star , Mike Burton , who runs a local sports agency . |
| 3 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 4 | Fourteen weeks ' full maternity pay for everyone and an end to the confusing restrictions on how long you have to work for the same company to qualify for your job back are just two of the expected improvements . |
| 5 | The best way to prepare for this is to work through the same processes as historians working with a wide range of documents . |
| 6 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 7 | The women go out to work in the same way as other women , but know that their main priority in life is to care for their families . |
| 8 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 9 | It would be easier to convince senior managers that Unix is a viable platform if all systems were seen to work in the same way , regardless of what was underneath . |
| 10 | However , the one thing that instantly distinguished PageMaker from the rest was the fact that it had been designed to work in the same way as a traditional paste-up table . |
| 11 | If he categorically refused to work in the same Laboratory as Lorrimer , one of them would have to go . |
| 12 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 13 | The human mind — which , from this viewpoint , is the brain — is said to work on the same plan as a computer , with operations being carried out on physical symbols . |
| 14 | And then there 're the classic multi-user applications , like sales order processing , where different users have to work on the same file at the same time . |
| 15 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 16 | Owen 's mind had begun to work on the same lines . |
| 17 | But I mean it was a hell of a way to work at the same time . |
| 18 | There was n't room for two good friends , let alone people who hardly knew each other , to work at the same time . |
| 19 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
| 20 | They are all , however , designed to work by the same physiological principles , and on this basis they have common components . |
| 21 | Whether the diversity depicted above is reflected in the presence of two tests , rational basis and rightness , or whether we should simply work through the former is largely a matter of semantics . |
| 22 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
| 23 | Health warnings on advertisements do not work for the same reason as health warnings on labels — they represent a token gesture which will have no material effect . |
| 24 | In one of its more far-sighted moves , the SRU had a pool of four coaches in the build-up to the 1991 World Cup , and one trusts that the union will work along the same lines this time . |
| 25 | We do n't all work in the same way to spread the good News . |
| 26 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
| 27 | Tried and tested application programming interfaces , data structures , formats and protocols , will usually work in the same way even if they are encapsulated within other architectures . |
| 28 | It could work in the same way as the present ‘ attendance allowance ’ , a payment made to severely disabled people which they can then choose how to spend on their care . |
| 29 | While we can see that horses are adept , sensitive and subtle communicators , human observers suffer from the disadvantage that our sense organs do not work in the same way as theirs . |
| 30 | The inner-city indicators were based largely on territorial assumptions , for example that people might have close relatives living in the same street or the next street , and that people would work in the same places as some of their close neighbours ( L. Milroy 1987 : 141–2 ) . |