Example sentences of "work on [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we wish to appoint several people with outstanding research potential to work on problems in image analysis , particularly pattern recognition in microscopic images , image enhancement and the analysis of spatial data . |
| 2 | recognised that the situation might well have been different if , instead of the defendants simply threatening to ‘ black ’ the broadcast they had gone to the B.B.C. and said ‘ We wish it to be established as part of our conditions of employment that we are not required to work on broadcasts to South Africa . ’ |
| 3 | As co-op members they also retain the right to work on projects of their own , rejecting the ‘ professional ’ distinction between ‘ workers ’ and ‘ clients ’ that funding agencies try to impose . |
| 4 | With the closure of tram routes in Croydon on 7 April 1951 , the Croydon E/1s were transferred to New Cross depôt , to work on routes in South East London and only the two war casualties 376 and 396 were missing . |
| 5 | There was a project to get artists to work on panels for a long wall , concrete posts and lintels with a brick infill , that might be seen as a possible module for paintings or some other art form . |
| 6 | In this questionnaire , ‘ language education ’ refers to learning about language as a social or psychological phenomenon and its structure , not to work on methods of teaching languages . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to work on commercials for funeral parlours , ’ he went on . |
| 8 | Picasso 's extensive series of variations on Las Meninas was produced in 1957 , but even if Gironella knew of them when he himself began to work on versions of Velázquez ( which is highly unlikely , as Picasso 's paintings were not exhibited until 1959 ) ; even though their interest in the art of the past at that point in their careers was for both , perhaps , a rejection of abstraction ; and even though both can in some way be defined as exiled from their Spanish roots , as outsiders looking in — — yet the results are widely divergent . |
| 9 | The Government recognise the importance of personal conscience in this context and included a measure of protection for existing shop workers against being made to work on Sundays in the Shops Bill which was debated by the House in 1986 . |
| 10 | Those who tend to retaliate need to work on ways of coping with the way their immediate strong feelings cause them to behave . |
| 11 | It is only when you know what causes the system to crash can you start to work on ways of avoiding the problem . |
| 12 | As with the Cel Editor , you may import a number of different image file types to form your background , and may , indeed , find that you prefer to work on backgrounds in another package altogether , and bring them into the Background Editor only to convert them to the Device Independent Bitmap ( DIB ) format that is native to the package . |
| 13 | That shows how much damage could be wrought on parts of the planet . |
| 14 | But if the human component in teaching is important in securing a " substantial ego-reward " , it should be asked how heads can acknowledge that colleagues will endure low points in their morale ( and there are certain numbers of compensating highs ) and how , in taking account of this , they can work on assumptions about other people 's attitudes . |
| 15 | In this chapter we shall work on ways of maintaining the connection with the feeling that animates , gives life to the story or the poem . |
| 16 | It does not mean that the Holy Spirit can not work on men of other faiths and draw their inner longings to Christ.John Taylor , in The Go-Between God , says rightly , ‘ The eternal Spirit has been at world in all ages and all cultures making men aware and evoking their response , and always the one to whom he was pointing and bearing witness was the Logos , the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world . |
| 17 | I worked on farms for a while before I joined my present company , so I know how to handle a tractor ! |
| 18 | When children go into the countryside and visit farms , they will see that the conditions are completely different from those that their fathers may have seen when they worked on farms during their holidays — that was one of the great traditions of United Kingdom cities . |
| 19 | From 1889 to 1906 he worked on railways in many other countries : the Central Argentine Railway appointed him district locomotive superintendent in 1894 , but in 1897 he was summarily dismissed for being late in returning from leave in England ; in 1900 he went as locomotive superintendent to the Cuban Central Railways , in 1902 to the Lagos Government Railway , and in 1904 to the Lima Railways in Peru . |
| 20 | Having done that , we listened to them over and over , took the best parts from each solo and I worked on composites from there . |
| 21 | ‘ They ca n't really be friends , ’ said Bernice as she worked on repairs to the faulty connection . |
| 22 | In 1939 he joined the Admiralty as an electrical engineer and went to HMS Vernon , the Navy 's torpedo and mining school at Portsmouth , where he worked on methods of defeating the German magnetic mine . |
| 23 | Thorough as ever , Whitaker had already commissioned and worked on scripts by Bill Strutton and Glyn Jones , and penned one himself about the Crusades . |
| 24 | Probably disillusioned with the Arts and Crafts Movement , he turned to archaeology and during the next thirty years worked on sites in the area . |
| 25 | ‘ Have you worked on ships for long ? ’ |
| 26 | Many Kandyan peasants worked on plantations for three or four months each year . |
| 27 | Many graduate students and overseas visitors have worked on aspects of the ecology of this field . |
| 28 | Before Reflexology was researched and developed in America in the 1930s , work on reflexes of the feet had been carried on in China for thousands of years . |
| 29 | Work on procedures for the Hamilton base was started in 1992 by and finalised by materials handling manager and materials control manager both based at Hamilton Oil . |
| 30 | Work on goods to businesses in other EC countries |