Example sentences of "working [prep] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | When an old path runs across a valley bottom , you might also improve your chances of good finds by working off the beaten track . |
| 3 | You have to spend years and years working off the initial residue of suspicion and diffidence before you 're even out of the red , let alone seeing any positive return for your efforts . |
| 4 | The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections . |
| 5 | It is worth working through the logical notation , however , for ease of reference later . |
| 6 | Working through the various pickup combinations yielded some very respectable semi-acoustic tones and , with a little bit of fiddling , some believable electro-acoustic sounds . |
| 7 | The answer must lie to some degree in effectiveness and involvement , in other words whether the discovery method as well as giving some general introduction to scientific method satisfies the educator 's broader aims of working through the affective domain , of stimulating active thought rather than passive reception , of positively influencing motivation . |
| 8 | Interpreting it then no longer requires the activation of the metaphorical strategy , working through the literal meaning , but merely requires the looking up , as it were , of a dictionary entry , in much the same way , presumably , that idioms are interpreted . |
| 9 | It is usually a good idea to walk with your dog in the usual fashion at first , working through the basic commands . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In working through the whole question of the handling of desire , the commandment deals with the power of the attitude itself and not just the power of deeds which provide the allurement and attraction . |
| 12 | However , given the lack of such well-established theories in the human sciences , variable analysis proposed to achieve the homology between the mathematical and its substantive domains by working through the methodological stipulation that social and human properties be described in variable analytic terms and the measurement scales just discussed . |
| 13 | As editor of The Colonial Magazine , Kingston 's Magazine and The Union Jack ( the last-named started in 1880 , the year of his death , and taken over by Henty ) , Kingston could claim all the space he needed to express his views on the importance of colonisation and use the experience he gained from working for the Colonial Land and Emigration Board . |
| 14 | At the time of qualifying , however , I realized that I had the choice of working for the Eastern Health Board or the Catholic Church ( the two are interchangeable ) . |
| 15 | The opponents at Hampden in October were Rangers , against whom , while working for the other half of the Old Firm , Aitken spent many years being either revered or reviled . |
| 16 | WE CALL UPON ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO JOIN US IN WORKING FOR THE FOLLOWING GOALS : |
| 17 | just under one in five CASE students in employment were working for the employing organisation associated with their CASE award ; |
| 18 | Here was silly old me thinking I was working FOR the fantastic IPC . |
| 19 | Elizabeth Kemf is an American now living in Switzerland and working for the Worldwide Fund for Nature . |
| 20 | Farzad Bazoft , an Iranian-born freelance journalist with British residency rights working for the London-based Sunday newspaper the Observer , was hanged as a spy in Baghdad on March 15 . |
| 21 | Yes , we 're very very pleased actually , I mean we were pleased with the fact that we were able to contribute to it because one of the nice things about working , for us , working for the Jordanian water authority , was that the Jordanians themselves have put so much commitment into this er situation , they 're , so much of their own resources and energy has gone into looking after , you know , very large groups of people who really are of no benefit to the country whatsoever . |
| 22 | Generally middle-aged , they may even have children who are working for the left-wing opposition , but their own closed environment has protected them from any understanding of the reality of their country . |
| 23 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 24 | It derives from the author 's experience of working for the Agricultural Training Board in an area in the North of Scotland where family and part-time farmers predominate but has been put on a wider footing by detailed investigations of attitudes and needs in eleven counties in England , Wales and Scotland , and by less detailed investigations during visits to Norway , the Federal Republic of Germany and France . |
| 25 | World Cup no.8 Glenn Ennis will be travelling from Tokyo , where he and massive lock Norm Hadley are working for the Suntory Corporation , while Scott Steward , who won four caps during the World Cup , two on the wing and two at fullback , will fly from the south of France , where he is playing for Dax . |
| 26 | ‘ If he was working for the Private Office in South London on the afternoon in question I should be very surprised indeed . ’ |
| 27 | William Keeling , a freelance journalist working for the Financial Times , was declared persona non grata by the government on July 1 . |
| 28 | Those who fled during the Cultural Revolution often did so alone , others carrying two children on their backs across the Himalayan mountains to join the 100,000 strong refugee communities in India , where today a committed group have devoted their lives to working for the Tibetan cause . |
| 29 | ‘ We wo n't be working for the whole evening , Ingrid , ’ said Suzi quickly . |
| 30 | Such prosecutions are brought by trading standards officers working for the local authority , the purpose of such prosecutions is to punish offenders . |