Example sentences of "are employed [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 .
2 On the one hand , more and more mothers are employed outside the home but on the other hand there is still a strong ideology supporting the view that mothers ought to stay at home to care for their children .
3 Up to 1,600 workers are employed at the test sites .
4 They 're the unseen victims of the crisis at Leyland Daf. 50 people are employed at the factory which assembles door parts for trucks .
5 Fifteen hundred people are employed at the coal mines at Frickley , Hatfield and Bentley .
6 Their combatant status is the same whether they are employed at the front or behind it …
7 More than 100 people are employed at the site in Belle Vale Road .
8 They are employed at the moment at the university-run dental school which is due to close next year .
9 This story runs parallel with that of a bank robbery which is being planned for 14th July by a group of petty criminals , some of whom are employed on the building site for the new hotel .
10 More than 170 highly skilled engineers and steel fixers from Northern Ireland are employed on the scheme .
11 The most important union for farm workers in England is the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers ( NUAAW ) which has a membership of approximately 90000 , three-quarters of whom are employed on the land .
12 The basis of the whole exercise is the assumption that , in any ordinary human language , the set of terms which can be glossed as " father " , " mother " , " brother " , " sister " etc. , because of the way that they are employed within the context of the domestic family , is somehow primary and basic .
13 About 30 actuaries are employed in the Government Actuary 's Department which advises the D.S.S. on retirement and sickness benefits , acts as a watchdog over life assurance companies and also advises on the various public service pension schemes and many other matters .
14 At present 16 staff are employed in the Centre , 5 funded by the ESRC , 4 by the University and 7 on other research funding .
15 Cleaners and security staff , for example , are employed in manufacturing industry , clerks and accountants are employed in the mining industry , and so forth .
16 By extrapolating broad social trends such as the long-run shift in industrialised societies from employment in agriculture and manufacturing to employment in service industries he paints his picture of the future where all our material needs are catered for by 10 per cent of the labour force , and the remainder are employed in the service sector , many of them in education and subsidised by the government .
17 We have already noted that in the UK , for example , over 50 per cent of those in work at present are employed in the service sector .
18 Accountants and lawyers are employed in the service of capital , architects build for the wealthy and doctors and psychiatrists in private practice care for the physical and mental needs of the rich .
19 1.1 You are employed in the service of the Council initially at … but following consultation and mutual agreement with the appropriate trade union you may be required to service at another of the Council 's establishments .
20 The transmission may be simple , the shout ‘ You are standing on my foot ! ’ or a phone conversation , or it may be complicated , as in the example of this book , involving a variety of people who are employed in the publishing , printing , and bookselling businesses .
21 are employed in the construction industry — that may be why the effects of the recession have not hit Shrewsbury as hard as they have hit other parts of the country , although we have felt the cold wind .
22 Two central conceptual tools are employed in the analysis : the constructionist theory of the self and positioning theory — both helpfully defined ( this is one example where the jargon is useful and worth struggling with ! ) .
23 If an increase in national income is the result of an increase in the quantity of goods and services produced , then we would expect the level of employment to rise as more people are employed in the production of additional output .
24 This is an agricultural area still , as it has been through the centuries , and most of the residents are employed in the district , with some commuting to Hull , the nearest city .
25 Indeed nearly half our number are employed in the profession that is most flexiblc for married women , whether at school or university level .
26 In this service veterinary surgeons are employed in the control and eradication of serious diseases of livestock , in the investigation of outbreaks of disease , in the application of health schemes aimed at increasing the efficiency of our livestock industries , and in all matters of animal health and welfare which may affect the country as a whole .
27 About 13,500 people in Great Britain are employed in the tobacco industry [ 8 ] .
28 If you are employed in the business at the time of the transfer , you will become employed by the purchaser and you should not be redundant .
29 To take this initiative and extend it to include a range of interests which they can use , whether or not they are employed in the future , might help them to be on a more equal footing with their peers who have not been in public care .
30 As in Muriel Spark 's The Comforters ( 1957 ) , telepathic experiences are employed in The Sycamore Tree to figure a divine presence with a sense of humour , and like Spark , Brooke-Rose breaches the conventions of realism in order to demonstrate a Christian doctrine .
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