Example sentences of "people work [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five .
2 In London , for instance , the most severely affected boroughs like Hackney and Tower Hamlets , with male unemployment rates of over 28 per cent in 1986 , had already seen sharp rises in joblessness between 1971 and 1981 , which had driven more people to work outside the boroughs of residence and brought a marked fall in the numbers of women in paid work ( Townsend el al. , 1987 ) .
3 That night he set his people to work in the darkness , filling holes in the trenches and moving the cannon forwards again .
4 How many people worked in the kitchen ?
5 and the people worked in the big hotels
6 Legal authorities who have taken over the case have imposed a blackout on information and until their investigations are complete and the case is ready to go to trial , probably in two to three months time , no-one can say how many fakes were involved , what their real value was , nor indeed how many people worked in the ring .
7 The head of the Soviet nuclear weapons programme , Viktor Mikhailov , had said in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda on Jan. 31 that slightly over 100,000 people worked in the nuclear weapons programme , including 10,000-15,000 who had secret information and 2,000-3,000 who had important information on " sophisticated technologies . "
8 People working for the Government 9,000,000
9 People working for the commission will be vetted , according to the procedures of their own country — which means , in Britain , secret vetting by MI5 .
10 The death on May 4th of Haruyuki Takata , an unarmed policeman in Cambodia , also led the Japanese government to order all its people working for the United Nations there back to the capital , Phnom Penh .
11 If we get the right balance and range of people working for the BBC it will change and broaden the agenda of our programmes .
12 People working for the EC — which outlaws discrimination — faced an upper age-limit of 35 for starting work in many posts in Community institutions , said the report , drawn up as part of the European Year of Older People .
13 ‘ There are now over 300 less people working for the group , but of those , there were only 20 redundancies , ’ he said .
14 With all these people working for the success of the Festival , the rest is up to you !
15 Where there are labour shortages ( or sudden crises such as wars ) one may find upward substitution — people working above the level they were trained for .
16 There have of course been many other television programmes which have touched on the subject of mental handicap , including series such as ‘ Let's Go ’ , a weekly series for the mentally handicapped launched in 1981 , and followed by a second series in 1983 , and ‘ Accident of Birth ’ , a series mainly for parents and people working with the mentally handicapped broadcast in early 1982 .
17 But much more important for me was to be exposed to the experience of people working with the poor in the Third World whose suffering results from debt .
18 The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable .
19 A governing body with a delegated budget will be able to stop people working at the school .
20 It is here contended that this last group , forming a close network of interdependent and inter-communicating people working at the leading edge of science at a time of rapid personal and scientific development may be a highly significant unit for the establishment of contacts in later careers , and for the promulgation of paradigm shifts in science .
21 Although the number of people working on the land falls every year , the latest five-year figures show farm fatalities are not decreasing .
22 ‘ Real collaboration only happens when people working on the same scale want to share the results of their work or are willing to put money in a pool for an expensive project ’ said another official .
23 I embarrassed him terribly — in my loudest voice — in front of all the people working on the reception desk , and a separate room was very quickly found for me .
24 The fertile combination of theory and practice was his own , however , and he stood at the head of a great group of people working on the new phenomena of electricity .
25 He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know .
26 More than a hundred people working on the JET nuclear fusion project in Oxfordshire are fighting for pay parity with other European scientists .
27 After all in my , you know my er people working on the rails book ?
28 What groups out of all those people working on the City Council , what people would you cut their jobs of ?
29 In fact it was largely people working outside the framework of experimental psychology who kept alive research into the physical bases of mental processes .
30 A hyper-sensitive fellow , such things cause him great and needless upset but to the rest of the band , it is largely water off a duck 's back , and they are dutifully protective of their singer , as are many of the people working around the band .
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