Example sentences of "to work [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frenzied attempts to work off the festive flab can lead to muscle and tendon injuries as people try to do too much too quickly . |
| 2 | It is this bracing action which allows the legs to work during the forward swing . |
| 3 | When you plan your programme , start with the social and personal free time for shopping or relaxation that the participants ought to have to encourage their brains to work during the meaty sessions . |
| 4 | She worked in the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune for a while and later she went to Switzerland to work for the International Labour Office of the United Nations . |
| 5 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 6 | The Prussians were horrified to learn that in Pomerania and Danzig the surviving Polish nobility were reluctant to work for the new authorities and much preferred to lease out their estates to tenant farmers while they lived off the income in Warsaw . |
| 7 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 8 | However , if the reason for the closure is that your employer has transferred his business to someone else , there may be no dismissal because you have been automatically transferred to work for the new owner ( see below ) . |
| 9 | That , in war and in peace , you will strive , with your prayers and with what material aid you can summon , to work for the sole weal of Scotia ? |
| 10 | Am I glad we came out to work for the entire season , Rosie ! |
| 11 | It was fear of the Soviet military threat which led many US administrations to work for the political unification of Europe — a process in many ways inimical to their own interests — and to urge the United Kingdom to play her part . |
| 12 | It was to work for the complete organisation of all ship , dock and river workers in order to raise their wages and improve their working conditions . |
| 13 | Men are in voluntarily unemployed if , in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage , both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment . |
| 14 | ‘ I was so keen to work for the Labour Party , ’ he says . |
| 15 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 16 | My sights were wide-ranging " I 'd like to work for the Daily Mirror or the Telegraph , " I informed my friends , as I sank a pint in the way I 'd seen the big-boys do at the time of the by-election . |
| 17 | In 1958 she was invited to work for the Gulbenkian Foundation where , as Director of Music she initiated an ambitious programme of activities , including the formation of the Gulbenkian orchestra , choir and ballet company . |
| 18 | Mark West , 26 , of St James ' Close has been appointed to work for the British Embassy , in Ankara , Turkey . |
| 19 | The officer said people should lose their sectional interests , should learn to accept orders and to work for the common good . |
| 20 | In this tradition the state is perceived as the vehicle by which the unity of the nation should be achieved in order to work for the common good . |
| 21 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 22 | For the first half of the meeting the division was split into two large committees to work through the agreed agenda . |
| 23 | Women with more mechanical confidence will drive off , going sometimes for miles with tears pouring down their face , until they find a quiet lay-by to work through the final stages of their process . |
| 24 | Not only may firms be unable , for reasons of bounded rationality , to work through the complex mathematics of these models , they may not have to because the answer is to them so obvious . |
| 25 | We do not always have to work through the whole process though , because the patterns for two , three , four or more symmetry-related modes are reproducible from one molecule to another . |
| 26 | If schools feel that the National Curriculum does not get to the heart of the matter , that it is a relatively superficial means to more important ends and has important omissions , then is it not up to the schools to work through the National Curriculum or add to it to secure their goals ? |
| 27 | To do this it is best to work towards the final schedule in a systematic way . |
| 28 | unity of objective : the formal organisation should ensure that individuals in the organisation find it easy to work towards the common organisation goal . |
| 29 | However now that we have a theory of communication ( Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) embedded within an overall theory of mind ( Fodor 1983 ) , and the beginnings of a model of grammar devised to reflect the assumptions about language implicit in these theories ( Kempson forthcoming ) , we are at last in a position to work towards the formal articulation of theories of linguistic knowledge and reasoning within an overall theory of mind . |
| 30 | The mining dispute , which had provoked the strike , continued from the end of April until November 1926 , when the miners and their families were effectively starved back to work despite the financial support of those unions affiliated to the TUC . |