Example sentences of "work on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jos moved round to work on the other side of the gate , he handed Mungo a sheet of sandpaper , telling him to use plenty of ‘ elbow grease ’ . |
| 2 | The gangs had already been selected to work on the other three small coasters which had arrived over the past weekend . |
| 3 | Immigrants , some of them Indian Tamils , arrived to work on the new estates . |
| 4 | Among them were men from Dulé 's people — five of this first shipment of slaves ; they were all to work on the new sugar plantation ; to stake out canefields in the rainforest . |
| 5 | In 1984 Denison set up his own practice , Denison Peters Limited , to work on the first big project on the Leeds riverside , a housing scheme of part converted corn chandlers and part newly built flats . |
| 6 | Thus , for example , the student with difficulty revising , having drawn up his plan of action , agreed to work on the first item on his list and not to be side-tracked into attempting other items at the same time . |
| 7 | Beginning in September they began to work on the current German and Austrian week ( 17 to 21 May ) searching for consignments spanning the centuries and media . |
| 8 | Returning to the site to work on the current $38 million contract is project director Ray Hodgson and Charles Stewart , construction manager . |
| 9 | Having decided that the vantage point for the watercolour in Figure 1 was the right one I then began to work on the overall design of the final work . |
| 10 | Then a little genuine humility will help you to work on the negative side and this will get you going on the right track . |
| 11 | Already LLNL has tried it out on nerve gas surrogates such as dimethyl methyl phosphonate and methyl phosphonic acid , and it seems to work on the crucial C-P bonds . |
| 12 | Scotland will hold a public practice at Murrayfield today , though part of it will likely be in camera — when the forwards head indoors to work on the hydraulic scrummaging machine . |
| 13 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 14 | Cleese enlisted Royal patronage to work on the top-selling environment number . |
| 15 | He continues to work on the stalled Uruguay Round of GATT talks , and in his speech to the American Legion in August , he talked about more bilateral agreements with other parts of the world . |
| 16 | With the help of the ESRC , the Yorkshire Dales National Park hope to transform countryside interpretation into an active and creative means of bringing landowners , policymakers and the public together to work on the best way to manage one of the great scenic treasures of northern England , yet maintain a healthy rural economy . |
| 17 | One lawyer needs to work on the collective ideas and draft the documents . |
| 18 | He went straight to work on the swollen sheep , and managed to save almost all of them . |
| 19 | There are 400 commitments to take forward in the next year — from proposals for new standards for indoor air quality to work on the major international agreements which we hope will be signed at the earth summit in Brazil in June 1992 . |
| 20 | At a time ( 1944 ) when one 's acquaintances were casually saying ‘ I 'm off to the US to work on the atomic bomb ’ ( surely a gross breach of security ) I think Bernal was carefully insulated . |
| 21 | Oliphant , who was also knighted , went on to work on the atomic bomb , and subsequently returned to his native South Australia , where he became Governor . |
| 22 | Er to work on the key issues which are common to all options for the future , er such that th we can put ourselves in the best position to secure future business success . |
| 23 | Almost immediately after completing the poem , he began in the early months of 1941 to work on the fourth in the sequence ; it was entitled " Little Gidding " . |
| 24 | In 1842 Buddicom went to France to work on the Paris–Rouen railway , which opened in 1843 , and was subsequently extended to Le Havre . |
| 25 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 26 | The game is psychological as well as physical ; once you have your physical bits together you have to work on the psychological aspect and this seems to be the stage we 're at ’ . |
| 27 | To that end , a working party was set up consisting of members of the Legal Services Committee and representatives of the CLE including the Dean , to work on the detailed proposals of the Law Society once they were made available and to put forward the Bar 's view . |
| 28 | Still to come is the awful Ghost Dad , basically another attempt to get Bill Cosby 's TV act to work on the big screen ( Bill plays a workaholic dad who , once dead , gets to spend more time with his family ) . |
| 29 | They had to be disposed of quickly to make room in the depôts for the new cars on order to work on the main line . |
| 30 | They needed a device able to scan lumps of rocks and pick out those worth processing at a rate that would make it possible to work on the huge scale required to make extraction from low-grade ores economical . |