Example sentences of "working for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | B&P human resources director David Ramsay said the firm was resuming full-time working for the first time in four months , in order to meet greater demand . |
| 3 | I therefore started working for the first time in my life . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | An athletically-built 5′ 9″ , he had played club cricket for South Melbourne , working for the latter club as an office clerk . |
| 7 | just under one in five CASE students in employment were working for the employing organisation associated with their CASE award ; |
| 8 | Here was silly old me thinking I was working FOR the fantastic IPC . |
| 9 | Elizabeth Kemf is an American now living in Switzerland and working for the Worldwide Fund for Nature . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ If he was working for the Private Office in South London on the afternoon in question I should be very surprised indeed . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We wo n't be working for the whole evening , Ingrid , ’ said Suzi quickly . |
| 18 | Working for the Smaller Company |
| 19 | ‘ We are all working for the same country , after all . |
| 20 | ‘ We are all working for the same goal , ’ he says . |
| 21 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 22 | Fifteen years working for the same company . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 26 | Such prosecutions are brought by trading standards officers working for the local authority , the purpose of such prosecutions is to punish offenders . |
| 27 | If there is no local museum , there may be a professional archaeologist in the area , perhaps working for the local authority . |
| 28 | Access to mental health services often bypasses social services departments ( unlike services such as those for the elderly ) ; thus the bulk of the initial screening will probably be undertaken by staff not working for the local authority . |
| 29 | Here the bureau under consideration is the agency working for the local authority . |
| 30 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |