Example sentences of "to work on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has an attempt been made to identify nurses in the local community who would be prepared to work on a casual basis ? |
| 2 | Trade relations were also discussed with Ivan Silayev , chair of the Interstate Economic Committee and both sides agreed to work on a long-term trade co-operation treaty . |
| 3 | This used to work on a complex formula based on the relative wealth of the areas , the structure of their populations , and various indicators of social needs . |
| 4 | As was seen at the recent September Gala the old gentleman is feeling his age and his appearance on the Sunday was only possible after herculean efforts on the part of the staff who had to work on a hot locomotive , in the most trying conditions , to ensure an appearance at the Gala Weekend . |
| 5 | Many of them , it was suggested by the organisations we spoke to , are married women with domestic commitments who are unable or unwilling to work on a regular basis but who value the opportunity to take on occasional work outside normal hours , particularly in the pre-Christmas period ( the height of the banqueting season ) . |
| 6 | It is a lot easier to work on a firm card background , such as a pale cream mount card , when making pictures this big . |
| 7 | It was not a sway to worry Stevely , for he has always reckoned that it is very much easier to work on a swaying swing than one which is inhibited . |
| 8 | Most of the titles have continued to work on a similar principle , whereby the title and image work towards a paradoxical suggestive propriety . |
| 9 | Advanced Micro says a number of its personnel will be assigned to work on a full-time basis at Hewlett-Packard 's Deer Creek Research and Development Facility in Palo Alto , California over the next two years , although some tasks associated with the project will be handled at Advanced Micro 's Submicron Development Centre in Sunnyvale . |
| 10 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
| 11 | ‘ Buying paper in rolls in economical and , because I like to work on a large scale , provides greater potential for expression . |
| 12 | Induction has been observed to work on a large number of occasions . |
| 13 | Many employers allow their staff to work on a flexi-time basis which , while providing staff with an obvious perk , can be an administrative nightmare for management . |
| 14 | Rule-based parsers tend to work on a sentential basis which appears to be too much delay for users . |
| 15 | She set him to work on a further area of deep neglect . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Geoff Nichol , head of Darlington health authority , has been offered the chance to work on a special project looking at community care . |
| 17 | Most agents prefer a term of about three years , whereas bands want to work on a yearly basis . |
| 18 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 19 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 20 | There are many clues in the course of data analysis that suggest that it might be better to work on a transformed scale . |
| 21 | The film tells the true story of a Great Western employee called Bob who , along with many of his colleagues , sails to the continent to work on a light railway serving the trenches . |
| 22 | It urges links between guidance teachers and other agencies , such as social work , education welfare officers and children 's panels , and to work on a flexible approach to the curriculum , enabling fourth year leavers to follow particular classes while performing work experience and voluntary work in the community . |
| 23 | The process is known as convection , and it is widely , but not universally , believed to work on a huge scale in the mantle . |
| 24 | So many track workers have been allowed to go that in some parts of the country we are not able to put gangs together to work on a proper maintenance programme . ’ |
| 25 | In the USA a lawyer is allowed to work on a contingent fee system . |
| 26 | EXTENDED INDUSTRY STANDARD ARCHITECTURE GANG GETS TO WORK ON A 64-BIT SUCCESSOR TO THE EISA BUS |
| 27 | When Jos moved round to work on the other side of the gate , he handed Mungo a sheet of sandpaper , telling him to use plenty of ‘ elbow grease ’ . |
| 28 | Immigrants , some of them Indian Tamils , arrived to work on the new estates . |
| 29 | Among them were men from Dulé 's people — five of this first shipment of slaves ; they were all to work on the new sugar plantation ; to stake out canefields in the rainforest . |
| 30 | Thus , for example , the student with difficulty revising , having drawn up his plan of action , agreed to work on the first item on his list and not to be side-tracked into attempting other items at the same time . |