Example sentences of "working [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mortise and tenon joints of the arms into the back can be marked out more conventionally with a mortise gauge working off the inside surfaces . |
| 2 | It is usually a good idea to walk with your dog in the usual fashion at first , working through the basic commands . |
| 3 | Firms are assumed to have unbounded capacity for working out strategies and payoffs , and for working through the abstract chains of reasoning which lead them to non-co-operative equilibrium strategies . |
| 4 | WE CALL UPON ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO JOIN US IN WORKING FOR THE FOLLOWING GOALS : |
| 5 | William Keeling , a freelance journalist working for the Financial Times , was declared persona non grata by the government on July 1 . |
| 6 | Liz joined JM in January 1990 working for the former Personnel Director , in Hatton Garden . |
| 7 | Some of the most distinguished English binders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Samuel Mearne ( working c. 1660–83 ) , in whose shop much work was done for Charles II ; several unidentified craftsmen working for the two Queens — Catherine of Braganza and Mary of Modena — ( known as Queens ' Binder A , B , and C ) and William Nott ( who may have been Binder A ) , of whom Pepys wrote in 1669 : |
| 8 | ‘ We used to share the same office and we can work together in the same environment , but not when we are actually working for the same clients , ’ she says . |
| 9 | As Dick comes to know Count Jasper he no longer sees him as a villain and realises that this inscrutable man is in his own way working for the same ends as the conspirators . |
| 10 | He spent most of his free time working for the Overseas Workers ' Union , a clandestine anti-colonial organisation chiefly recruited from Indians and Chinese . |
| 11 | Erm what it is we 're a press agency working for the national papers and about eighteen months ago we did Em Emma 's story for the Sunday People erm and now I 've just seen the Evening Mail today erm and I 've got , you know the how she 's grown nine inches in the past eighteen months , er and just thought the story might er might take another outing and I just wondered if it was possible f for you to help us contact her er her mother at all ? |
| 12 | Working for the National Socialists had suited Kaas . |
| 13 | Even if your students are studying Business English without working for the LCCI exams , Written English for Business offers a varied selection of realistic Business English writing tasks . |
| 14 | The death on May 4th of Haruyuki Takata , an unarmed policeman in Cambodia , also led the Japanese government to order all its people working for the United Nations there back to the capital , Phnom Penh . |
| 15 | Every effort is being made to have six steam locomotives working during the two days . |
| 16 | Teachers whose fourth-year pupils have already started working towards the 1994 exams , are working blind as it is impossible to know how these levels will be viewed until after the results are published . |
| 17 | The difficulty here is that central planning may know very little about the actual way of working of the different departments , so a theoretically superior plan may be impracticable . |
| 18 | In those days there existed another Methodist Society , known as the Primitive Methodists , and they had established themselves in Chiswick using a room in Devonshire Road , and working amongst the labouring classes of the community . |
| 19 | Having spent years ensuring that mounts are cut accurately , and working with the straight lines of frames , I find straight lines just as pleasing in designs as curves , and I think an idea like this makes a pleasant change from the more popular floral compositions . |
| 20 | Our experience of working with the major breweries throughout the 1980s is that , undeniably , mistakes were made — sometimes on a very grand scale indeed . |
| 21 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 22 | I enjoyed working with the outside tradesmen . |
| 23 | tourism in West Sussex I mean what would happen to that is just one example er on a broader level , the County Council is working with the European regions to promote West Sussex in Europe and what would happen to that , the only conclusion we could draw is that these policies would crumble and to er seriously affect West Sussex and finally I come back to the point that , that I will keep making , if I ever get the opportunity , namely the cost of this exercise . |
| 24 | Microsoft said that it is working with the European manufacturers to combine its operating system with the existing hardware architecture of each . |
| 25 | How how does that co you spoke about friendliness and warmth here , How does it compare working with the other places you 've worked at ? |
| 26 | The interactions of X-rays with living tissues were studied in very few laboratories , perhaps because physicists working with the new rays were not usually well informed about the biological problems which might be worth approaching , and biologists lacked the background and training in physics necessary to use X-rays in their work . |
| 27 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 28 | Working with the ensuing feelings of anger and distress can make considerable demands on staff skill and patience . |
| 29 | The practising architect may design better buildings after working with the old ones . |
| 30 | A bigger problem that converting between video standards is that fact that most older monitors are simply not up to working with the high resolutions that the PC needs . |