Example sentences of "was work [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 2 | Its immediate economic aim was to work for the reduction and eventual elimination of tariffs on most industrial goods among its members . |
| 3 | It was to work for the complete organisation of all ship , dock and river workers in order to raise their wages and improve their working conditions . |
| 4 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |
| 5 | I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish . |
| 6 | Yet he realised how important it was to work with the Russians and he had no intention of disrupting the wartime alliance . |
| 7 | The LDP 's rebellious faction no longer looks like splitting off : on June 2nd one of its members said secession would achieve nothing , and that the best way to bring about reform was to work behind the scenes . |
| 8 | She was to work in the kitchens . |
| 9 | Finally , in a remote zone of the fortress-monastery , the guides ushered Lexandro and company into a scarcely-lit , groin-vaulted chamber — and promptly skipped back out , slamming the plasteel door that was wrought with the face of a carnivorous lizard . |
| 10 | From the 1780s , the mill was worked for the production of both white and brown paper , passing through the hands of J. Stephens , W. Stephens and James Stevens . |
| 11 | Using just four rows of pattern , this sample was worked on the Singer Big Nine and after the first four rows was extremely easy to work . |
| 12 | Pressure was worked on the scale of ‘ megabars ’ . |
| 13 | Alstone Upper Mill was worked during the 1860s by Elijah Snowsell , although by the 1890s William Ride and Co were working the mill , using steam power . |
| 14 | Darren Brine , who had a fine game , had a good run down the left and when the ball was worked into the midfield , ‘ Click ’ Clarke was on hand to hammer it home . |
| 15 | It was a straw bonnet , biscuit-coloured and it was worked round the edges with red ; I suppose it was thin cord ; but it had red round it and red on the top . |
| 16 | It dates from the early part of the 19th century and was worked around the 1850s by Allaway and Henry Crawshay , the latter probably having connections with William Crawshay of Camp Mill , at Soudley . |
| 17 | She could imagine that Tom would go out and leave his door open if he was working about the place but not if he had quitted it , and in winter it seemed foolhardy to say the least to leave it and let the cold air invade the house . |
| 18 | He put down a volume of Hume — he no longer read the daily papers , but was working through the world 's philosophers , from Plato onwards , and had now reached the Scottish humanists . |
| 19 | John Talbot , of receivers Arthur Andersen , told the news conference : ‘ Everyone was working through the night to complete the transaction . ’ |
| 20 | It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation . |
| 21 | Smith was working at the High Commission in India when he met and married his wife , Isa , who survives him . |
| 22 | In 1911 , when he was working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York , he described the transmission of a malignant new growth by means of a cell-free filtrate . |
| 23 | I was working at the Open University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor in charge of student affairs . |
| 24 | CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I was working at the store and I was pretty much going nowhere , from eleven to fifteen . |
| 26 | Only that amount which exceeds what would be spent on lunch if the employee was working at the office can even be considered . |
| 27 | Although Mum was working at the fish shop she did n't get much for her labours , sometimes only some fish and chips . |
| 28 | Gail , 41 , who met Ian when she was working at the American Hospital in Beirut , grew up nearby . |
| 29 | Of these the most important was Theodore Robinson , who did become a close friend of the painter , and who produced some paintings of the haystacks on which Monet was working at the time , which are almost indistinguishable from those of the master . |
| 30 | Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ? |