Example sentences of "work for [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Patricia , 17 , goes to a sweatshop in Rio to work for a less than minimum wage .
2 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 .
3 ‘ You wo n't be going back to work for a few days , I 'm afraid , Francisco . ’
4 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 .
5 He 's come to this country to work for the former England star , Mike Burton , who runs a local sports agency .
6 He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago .
7 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 .
8 But although this strategy may work for a few years , there are few parishes which have the physical space for more than two or three new congregations .
9 After the model had been repaired , Watt discovered that it would only work for a few stroked and then stop .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 After completing his studies at Glasgow University , Gavin worked for a few months at a salmon farm near Ft William , checking for virus infection .
13 Director for the past five years of the National Campaign for the Arts , he previously worked for the former Labour minister , Mr Albert Booth , and the Low Pay Unit .
14 The other was her secret lover , smooth , Australian-born lawyer Phillip Levy , who worked for the same newspaper .
15 They both worked for the same of accountants .
16 Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely .
17 ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it .
18 The process of forming a government was slowed by numerous allegations that as many as 10 per cent of new deputies had worked for the former Ministry of State Security police ( " Stasi " ) as active informants .
19 The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police .
20 He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension .
21 At present , women only qualify for leave if they have worked for the same employer for two years ; five years for women who work less than 16 hours per week .
22 Mums-to-be only have the right to return to their job if they 've worked for the same company for at least two years .
23 And the amount of statutory maternity pay to which they 're entitled also depends on how long they 've worked for the same employer .
24 If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether .
25 He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church .
26 Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer !
27 A problem sometimes associated with salespeople who have worked for the same company for many years is that they rely on established customers to provide repeat orders rather than actively seeking new business .
28 Even if you only work for a few hours a week , take out professional indemnity insurance .
29 Shufflebotham watched him work for a few moments .
30 The 231 staff were re-employed indefinitely — at cost of £50,000 each — some doing less work for the same money .
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