Example sentences of "work [prep] the [adj] service " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal members were a private secretary , Oliver Everett , who worked for the diplomatic service and was recalled from Madrid to set up her office ; and Anne Beckwith-Smith , a specialist in eighteenth-century English painting , who worked at Sotheby 's and was brought in as full-time lady-in-waiting . |
| 2 | As she had worked for the civil service previously , she applied and was sent a booklet which specified an age range for applicants of 17 ½ to 28 years . |
| 3 | Edward 's father had worked in the diplomatic service in India and had amassed a fortune also , by irregular and secret membership of a Burmese rubber syndicate . |
| 4 | Working with the Secret Service station at the American Embassy in Athens , DEA Nicosia now regularly employed huge sums of counterfeit US currency to make drug buys in Europe , the US and Mexico . ’ |
| 5 | Graduates in English Literature find their way into a wide range of occupations , including various kinds of educational work , and work in the Civil Service , in industry , and in the media . |
| 6 | The 450,000 employees , 300,000 of whom work in the postal service , are unhappy . |
| 7 | That is welcomed by those who work in the public service as much as by those who use it . |
| 8 | That the world is not divided into 2 classes of people — one who run private care for nasty reasons — and another group who work in the statutory service for all the good reasons , and that what we have to do is be prepared to step outside of those kinds of labelling and look at what we are seeing , look at the needs of the people we are trying to help make provision for and see what best can be done out of the resources available . |
| 9 | The architect or the engineer working within the civil service may believe this to be unnecessary red tape and their culture may be dominated by a concern to do the best possible job conforming to the highest professional standards . |
| 10 | The administrative officer working within the civil service may compare pay and conditions with similar jobs in the private sector such as a building society . |