Example sentences of "work in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I personally felt a great affinity with the people of the highlands and islands , although I know this was not so with many of our officers who preferred to work in the south . |
| 2 | ‘ Mark used to work in the newspaper industry , but he got kicked out when they brought in all the new technology you hear about . |
| 3 | It is a fact of life , however , that membership by graduation is not mandatory before being able to work in the credit management profession , unlike accountants and others . |
| 4 | Then , there was nothing else to be done except get back to work in the cutting room at Paramount where he was working around the clock on The Two Jakes , for which the world of movie entertainment was waiting with bated breath ; because even though all of the above makes fascinating reading for everyone intrigued by Hollywood 's pop royalty , especially one so colourful and mercurial as Nicholson , it is the mere trivia , the overcoat of gloss and glitz , that hides the real Jack Nicholson … |
| 5 | Each year , when shooting , stalking and fishing guests departed , estate employees were called to the great house to work in the armoury , which had one of the finest collections of antique weapons in Scotland : claymores , dirks , shields , spears and guns . |
| 6 | What is new is that we have moved from too few qualified nurses coming to work in the operating theatres , to not enough people entering nursing . |
| 7 | In fact it is likely that they have chosen to work in the CAB because this is what they want to do . |
| 8 | ‘ Inmates want to work in the kitchen because it means they can be out of their cells for most of the day and can have a bit of extra food , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Together they choose the best plate to display the food , then Linda gets to work in the kitchen preparing the food for photography with a little help from Cheryl Baker . |
| 10 | He found an opportunity to work in the biochemistry laboratory at Cambridge , and then came to Florey . |
| 11 | Derek has trained and retrained to work in the construction industry , electronics , civil engineering and offshore construction but still can not find a job . |
| 12 | Zobel said that there had been no approaches from Japanese companies wanting to work in the OMI . |
| 13 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |
| 14 | The attitudes of women to work in the home are very likely to be related to other attitudes they hold — such as those to paid employment , to marriage , to child-socialization , to leisure activities and so on . |
| 15 | In fact , the uncertain times of Terris ' appearances have had such an effect on workmen that the Maintenance Department do not allow their staff to work in the station through the night in case the ghost interferes with their potentially dangerous work . |
| 16 | After yesterday 's service , the Prince talked to veterans introduced by Jack Edwards , 74 , a former warrant officer with the Royal Corps of Signals , who was captured by the Japanese in Singapore and forced to work in the copper mines of Taiwan . |
| 17 | According to Donal Sheehan , ‘ anyone who wants to work in the film industry would probably avoid making a lesbian or gay film because of the risk of being stereotyped . |
| 18 | A former accountant who used to work in the music industry with Tony Visconti ( David Bowie 's producer ) , he now has a hit of his own with the quoted company The Pelican Group . |
| 19 | The opportunities for pupils to share , compare and contrast ideas are limited , and children are constrained to work in the way the workbook dictates . |
| 20 | Moreover , former farm workers and other locals who have ceased to work in the village but who remain resident there and commute to nearby towns , may also involve themselves in leisure activities over a much wider geographical area than hitherto . |
| 21 | She wor used to work in the kipper industry , and she 'd had smallpox once , knocked her off cos you should have seen her face . |
| 22 | Therefore , the sort of person attracted to work in the bureaucracy on the implementation of such programmes was likely to be sympathetic to them and their commitment to the programmes was likely to grow rather than diminish with time . |
| 23 | In 1764 Thomas Paine was posted to Alford to work in the Excise Office which was housed in the old Windmill Inn in the market place . |
| 24 | She has a six-month voluntary contract with the government-backed Forest Elephant Group to work in the Omo rain forests . |
| 25 | Gradually other women finished the insides of their houses and came outside to work in the sunlight . |
| 26 | That is the dynamic , historical revelation of the Father 's love , which draws us into the community of faith and sets us to work in the service of the kingdom . |
| 27 | Of course while this point may work in the tenant 's favour in a falling market , it is just as likely to work in the landlord 's favour in a rising market . |
| 28 | He surprised and alarmed us all by saying that , following the liberalisation of exit controls , he expected that up to 7 million Soviet citizens would want to work in the west . |
| 29 | His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion . |
| 30 | His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion . |