Example sentences of "may work [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 to contribute , on matters involving community interpreting , to the training of public service personnel who may work through interpreters ; |
| 2 | A child may work with father or mother ; s/he may look after a younger brother or sister ; s/he may be responsible for the family cow or goats or for selling the family produce in the market . |
| 3 | A Major or a Kinnock may work for decades in the hope of a few short years at the pinnacle of our political system . |
| 4 | A bent metal coat hanger may work for blockages close to the trap but , unlike plumber 's snakes and curtain wire , it will not go round bends . |
| 5 | At Level Two students may work as individuals or in small groups . |
| 6 | There are circumstances , however , where the visual — spatial characteristics of signs may work to advantage in the perception and processing of BSL . |
| 7 | Top earners in Latin America may be owners or managers , they may work in foreign or local firms and they may work in state or private enterprises . |
| 8 | Black workers may work in industries particularly hard-hit in the recession , or there may be a high proportion in particular age-groups ( like the young or old ) who are particularly prone to unemployment . |
| 9 | They 're very poor people , they may work in industries with hundreds and hundreds of small outlets , whether they 're workshops in people 's homes or hairdressing shops , and it 's much harder to organise that kind of person than it is to organise a factory worker in a big factory . |
| 10 | Open access may work in Britain , but in continental Europe , where there are a limited number of gas-merchant companies , it would be a different story . |
| 11 | Now how is a pensions regulator going to look at those thirty transactions , therefore are you not effectively saying that the pensions regulator may work in areas where pensions regulation actually works now . |
| 12 | In fact the process may work in reverse . |
| 13 | Mr Smith said : ‘ However well intentioned the reform may have been and however well it may work in schools sufficiently funded for it to work , the fact is too many of its side-effects are visible , malign and damaging and John Patten must have at the very top of his agenda an urgent review . ’ |
| 14 | It is too early to tell how the bright idea may work in practice . |
| 15 | The children of the rich may work in health food shops or other faddish and esoteric pursuits which utilize their educational experience and may provide a more acceptable form of class reproduction than simple inheritance . |