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

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1 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 " .
2 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 .
3 A company is employee controlled if more than half its issued ordinary share capital and voting power is beneficially owned by full-time employees , namely individuals who work for the greater part of their time as employees or directors of the company or its 51% subsidiaries .
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 ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked .
10 The 231 staff were re-employed indefinitely — at cost of £50,000 each — some doing less work for the same money .
11 Employees might also seek to change their status to self-employed and work for the same company , or others , on a consultancy basis .
12 For the side 's manager and four of the players are all related , and work for the same company .
13 ‘ Leith 's just been telling me that you both work for the same firm , ’ he put on a front for the rest of the world to joke .
14 This publication , and the Directory of Mines and Quarries , on which work for the next edition continued , provide prime sources of basic data for the United Kingdom minerals industry .
15 ‘ You need to know where they all are if you work for the Royal Mail , ’ Coltman says .
16 Meldola was , by now , an ailing and weary man , overcome by excessive worry and work for the growing war effort .
17 If you have a skill that 's in short supply , you go and work for the proper rate for the job .
18 Only work for the socialist revolution and you work for justice for everyone ; blacks , women , oppressed minorities everywhere .
19 P.S. I work for the Inland Revenue — am I still allowed to be a punk ?
20 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 .
21 At present , the vast majority of people who work for the Scottish Transport Group come within a pension scheme-TOPS .
22 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 .
23 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 .
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