Example sentences of "work the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His magisterial work The Roman Wall in Scotland ( second edition 1934 ) has stood as one of the great classics of archaeological investigation , backed by sound scholarship . |
| 2 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Although we did not measure this in our study , I can say from other work the average German sees his doctor 13 times a year , the average Swiss sees his doctor 7.5 times a year and the average Briton 3.5 times . ’ |
| 4 | The intention was to complete the work the following weekend by laying a stone and whindust surface , thus improving the path for the benefit of all users , who include walkers , joggers and anglers as well as the occasional cyclist . |
| 5 | Andy alias GG , Margaret-Nora , Phil-Dame Edna and Graeme-Rab raised over £400 for research into breast cancer by turning up at work the following day in disguise . |
| 6 | ‘ I usually take no notice and just turn up for work the following day . |
| 7 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |
| 8 | He told hospital matron Elizabeth Proffitt and when Mrs Mawdsley did not appear at work the following Monday , she asked their head office for advice . |
| 9 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 10 | In its educational work the financial deficits were masked by the encouraging developments in Northamptonshire , Bedfordshire , and , initially , in East Suffolk . |
| 11 | The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ? |
| 12 | The Women 's Labour League , of which Mrs MacDonald was a leading member , took the same view , seeing in paid work the additional disadvantage that a woman had less opportunity to ‘ give thought and companionship to her husband ’ . |
| 13 | Beethoven is the historical fulcrum ; in his work the two aspects are perfectly balanced , and the uniqueness of the individual musical idea is organically integrated into a socially comprehensible but freely worked-out totality . |
| 14 | To mark the start of work the first earth was dug by the client 's retail director , Tim Bonham ( right ) , ably assisted by WCUK area manager Paul Baxter . |
| 15 | ‘ But after rowing about it for ages , I came home from work the other day and it was n't on . |
| 16 | Got it at work the other night did n't it ? |
| 17 | In the course of their work the professional-managerial class develop techniques to control the working class . |
| 18 | During the work the original opening between Cell-y-bedd and the church was discovered , thus explaining the entry in the Parish records in 1721 ‘ for shutting up Melangell 's door — 9 pence ’ ! |
| 19 | Einstein has traced in his work the conservative influences of Ingegneri , a melodious master of Palestrinian polyphony , and Andrea Gabrieli , who excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and villanella , the Venetian gregesche and giustiniane . |
| 20 | ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him . |
| 21 | For finer work the 88 handpiece is available in two versions ; the more expensive using a spring connector to hinge it mid-way from the main connector . |
| 22 | In his work the human race does not originate ‘ on stage ’ in Beleriand , but drifts into it , already sundered in speech , from the East . |
| 23 | And in his later work the careful dating supplied by Picasso himself eliminates any chronological problem . |
| 24 | In the mid-1630s , John Williams , who as Bishop of Lincoln was one of the few remaining non-Laudian prelates , made public his opposition to his colleagues ' initiative ; he became involved in a heated literary battle on the subject with the staunch Arminian , Peter Heylyn , and following the publication of his work The Holy Table Name and Thing , he was thrown into prison . |
| 25 | Certainly , Gunnar Myrdal 's great work The American Dilemma provides evidence that , even in the deep South , during the days of segregation , the expression of racism was not completely uninhibited . |
| 26 | just just just finished no more course work the last course work I 'm ever going to do , she says Erm I 've got a hundred and twenty pieces you can help me mark . . |
| 27 | After three years ' work the last consignment of nuclear fuel rods has been removed . |
| 28 | Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender . |
| 29 | As a result of this work the Coordinating Committee for Under Fives ( CCUF ) , an umbrella organisation of statutory and voluntary sector groups and individuals providing a service to under fives , decided to organise a conference to look at the issues of integration of special needs children within mainstream provision . |
| 30 | Roman Ingarden 's seminal work The Literary Work of Art provided the basis for much subsequent analysis of the nature of fiction and the process of reading . |