Example sentences of "work [prep] [art] [adj] firm " in BNC.

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1 She married a colleague who then left to work for a rival firm .
2 After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed .
3 Many firms offer training two years in advance but they tend to be the larger organisations and if you wish to work for a smaller firm or , for example , a local authority , you often need to apply nearer the time .
4 I commute from Dunfermline to Edinburgh to work for an enlightened firm of architects which designed into its office a shower facility , which allows me to cycle in all weathers .
5 And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own .
6 The woman , twenty-seven year old Kate Webb , worked for a local firm of solicitors .
7 He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church .
8 Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer !
9 Sir , — I read the article in the October issue , When growth and stability turned to disaster ( see p 26 ) , with a good deal of interest having worked with a professional firm in the Isle of Wight in the fifties , and knowing something of the type of clientele referred to .
10 2 ‘ Internal capitalists ’ are senior executives who work for a single firm , but do not have a substantial ownership stake in it .
11 ‘ Leith 's just been telling me that you both work for the same firm , ’ he put on a front for the rest of the world to joke .
12 If they ca n't commit to high rates of profit , perhaps they should be working for a second-rate firm which plays budgetary games .
13 He also stressed that the personal satisfaction in working for a small firm was as important as the financial contribution the sector made to the economy .
14 ‘ There is a subtle way in which we are never given quite the full authority , never quite the full credit , never quite the full respect , ’ said one woman working for a big firm .
15 Even married couples working for the same firm can be fired if the boss can prove that their relationship makes their employment impractical , or that it is against company policy .
16 Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer !
17 Following Speirs 's departure , Fanny Walden offered his services to City while working with a nearby firm of motor engineers .
18 There may be no alternative to working in a small firm for those excluded or transferred from regular employment status in large companies and their primary subcontractors .
19 The aircraft crashed just 30 yards from buildings where 40 people were working at an agricultural firm in Buckinghamshire .
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