Example sentences of "work [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I currently work as the Technical Officer for the Mountain Leader Training Board .
2 A labourer complained , " touching in particular the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor , not finding a house and providing labour or work for the said William Ashton to do in the parish " .
3 MORE THAN 10,000 women who work for the Regional Council have received a cervical smear test since 1988 , and the Women 's Unit has played a major part in that achievement .
4 I got involved with agencies who specialise in placing children who were difficult to place , be it handicapped , black or of the wrong age , and that led to my doing a lot of work taking photographs for a magazine published by the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering and various publicity and public relations work for the Catholic Children 's Society .
5 The Defense Department employs nearly 80 per cent of the civilian and military personnel who work for the federal government and , in 1978 , was paying over 5 million incomes to military personnel and civilian employees past and present .
6 work for the intrinsic interest of the subject , not just for their teacher ;
7 He would not , for example , work for the Cuban government because Fidel Castro was not elected in a democratic election .
8 The Connecticut engineering company does a small amount of sensitive nuclear-weapons work for the American government .
9 ‘ You need to know where they all are if you work for the Royal Mail , ’ Coltman says .
10 Meldola was , by now , an ailing and weary man , overcome by excessive worry and work for the growing war effort .
11 If you have a skill that 's in short supply , you go and work for the proper rate for the job .
12 Only work for the socialist revolution and you work for justice for everyone ; blacks , women , oppressed minorities everywhere .
13 P.S. I work for the Inland Revenue — am I still allowed to be a punk ?
14 We now come to the second part of our programme , according to our agenda , which has the broad heading , Achiev N C V O Achievements and Intentions , and it 's obviously a natural follow-on from the I er , A G M which we have just completed , at which council received the annual report of N C V O's work for the past year , and its use of the resources which are available to it to carry out that work .
15 At present , the vast majority of people who work for the Scottish Transport Group come within a pension scheme-TOPS .
16 What he did not give in response to the many points made by my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) were absolute guarantees and reassurance for the people who work for the Scottish Transport Group .
17 Virgin did , none the less , retain all rights on the Sex Pistols ' , and Sid Vicious 's , work for the full duration of the copyright laws , to be exploited as the company saw fit .
18 Let's take temper tantrums as an example , and work through the remaining steps .
19 President Babangida of Nigeria , assuming the chair of the organization for the coming year in succession to Ugandan President Museveni , said that his major tasks would be " to dismantle apartheid , restore peace in the troubled parts of the continent and work towards the smooth take-off of the African Economic Community ( AEC ) " .
20 We work with the appropriate authorities to combat the abuse of alcohol , and continue to play a leading role in promoting balanced debate and communicating the benefits of moderate drinking to a wide audience .
21 Suppose that we work with the causal example ; it is required for knowledge that the fourth clause be true , but not that a have any inkling that the fourth clause be true .
22 Up until nineteen twenty seven he 's been saying work with the Kuomintang , work with the bourgeois nationalists , work with the parties to your right .
23 But many have established Reserves and work with the agricultural community to encourage traditional practices ( very often pump-priming product market outlets ) of agricultural management which conserve the landscape , flora and fauna alike .
24 when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know .
25 J. R. Campbell directed revolutionary comrades in the ILP as follows ; Fight for a revolutionary policy and work with the Communist Party to carry out that policy ; work for coming over en masse into the ranks of the Communist Party .
26 We will safeguard the prosperity of Hong Kong , nuture democratic institutions and work with the Chinese Government within the terms of the Joint Declaration .
27 It is worth considering how to start the investigation : whether to do a bit yourself first to get them going , or work with the whole class as a large group , or just state the problem and let them do it all .
28 Team scores are compared to introduce some rivalry ( which usually means that participants work into the early hours later in the course ) , and critiques prepared on how their performance might be improved through reference to Grid styles .
29 We may be in your household but we work under the direct orders of the Lord Cardinal . ’
30 They work under the grim threat that armed and dangerous rebels could pick them off at any time .
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