Example sentences of "the [noun sg] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many said that they welcomed the opportunity to work , and were not able to do so during the week because there was no one look after their children . |
| 2 | There is nothing in it for the participants except the opportunity to work for low or no wages . |
| 3 | The attachment to work of many of them is rather marginal — itself intimately related to the fact that frequently their temporary jobs are also part-time jobs [ see Chapter 2 ] . |
| 4 | The greatest possible self-created order , he wrote , compatible of course with the freedom to work , which may mean very little order indeed or may mean a great deal of order , depending on the individual and the circumstances . |
| 5 | Senior management were too easily satisfied that the Permit to Work system was being operated correctly , relying on the absence of any feedback of problems as indicating that all was well . |
| 6 | Lyn left him in bed and took the car to work , promising to be back early to give him his lunch . |
| 7 | Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike . |
| 8 | If I ca n't , then I will have to make up my own in order to control the , the programme to work . |
| 9 | erm we excluded all the superficial ones that had solid because it was insufficient er one patient we could n't get the stain to work . |
| 10 | Towards the end of the eighteenth century both pewter and pure tin — natural or silvered — were also being used , though the nobility appear to have remained loyal to brass , it being more convenient for the engraver to work , especially if one 's coat-of-arms was to appear on it . |
| 11 | So you 've got to give it some heat to help the oxygen to work . |
| 12 | At the same time , hundreds of workers in the Midlands plants who had heard about the Pier Head meeting on the grapevine now decided to drive up to Liverpool to influence the return to work vote . |
| 13 | But that summons to Bayreuth in 1939 cost her dearly — the return to work in Paris , the accusations of collaboration , the suicide of her son . |
| 14 | Job sharing is one possible option to ease the return to work . |
| 15 | These can turn out to be expensive , making the return to work unfeasible for many middle to lower paid people ; they can also prove to be unreliable , which means that working mothers can find themselves alienating their employers through no fault of their own . |
| 16 | The letter which the employers sent to John Common , acknowledging the return to work , congratulated him on " the manly and frank tone in which you intimate the termination of the dispute . " |
| 17 | The ‘ domino effect ’ was only partly successful , however , and this was very substantially responsible for both the course of the dispute and the lack of any final outcome , other than the return to work in March , 1985 . |
| 18 | None of the four fields in the ‘ militant ’ group held a ballot ; in all four , the miners were prepared to strike following their local Executive 's call , and to remain on strike , in the great majority of cases , until the return to work a year later . |
| 19 | Following the return to work , the Banks set about introducing Lunch-time Opening . |
| 20 | The return to work settlement included a bonus of 15 per cent on top of a wage rise of 59 per cent . |
| 21 | People travel outside the village to work , so turning it into a dormitory village . |
| 22 | He watched the screen , struggled to get the frame-hold to work , all the while keeping an eye on the scene in the operating theatre . |
| 23 | The need to work is often financial , two incomes being required to maintain heavy mortgages and what Ivan Illich , a critic of the Establishment has called , ‘ the modern addiction to paralysing affluence ’ . |
| 24 | Was the poor relief paid to able-bodied workers over-generous to the extent that it not only created a dependency culture by reducing the incentive to work , but put a premium on early marriage and on childbirth ? |
| 25 | To enable the wife to work , the couple have employed a nanny and have also decided to educate their children at private London day schools . |
| 26 | In Poland for instance the approach to work is a much more leisurely one . |
| 27 | However , the will to work is not lacking , but it is the access to skills and resources which is lacking . |
| 28 | Arthur Kornhauser 's Mental Health of the Industrial Worker , Herzberg , Mausner and Snyderman 's The Motivation to Work , Walker and Guest 's Man on the Assembly Line and Hughes ' Men and Their Work are examples . |
| 29 | Herzberg , Mausner and Snyderman observe in their study of The Motivation to Work that the provision of better working conditions has the effect of reducing dissatisfaction but not the effect of producing satisfaction . |
| 30 | The Institute of Economic Affairs had for a long time been polemicising against the extension of state activity on the grounds that it restricted choice , led to dependency and reduced the motivation to work , and fostered economic inefficiency in comparison with ‘ private enterprise ’ . |