Example sentences of "work [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One deaf person who did much sterling work in the front-line city of Southampton was Herbert C. Street , an A.R.P Warden and sergeant in the Home Guard . |
| 32 | It 's a curious thing , having a radio programme on television , but this Radio 4 joint production with BBC1 has shown how neatly it can work in the right hands . |
| 33 | Andrew Eliel , editor of the guide , said the award had been launched because it was felt the best chef did not necessarily work in the best restaurant . |
| 34 | Grieco 's work is based on a detailed case study in the Northamptonshire steel town of Corby , and smaller studies of women in the fisheries industry in Aberdeen and of people migrating from the East End of London to live and work in the new town of Basildon , on London 's outer fringes . |
| 35 | I 'll work in the timid heart of the maid |
| 36 | I do n't work in the photographic laboratory . |
| 37 | We do n't all work in the same way to spread the good News . |
| 38 | Tried and tested application programming interfaces , data structures , formats and protocols , will usually work in the same way even if they are encapsulated within other architectures . |
| 39 | It could work in the same way as the present ‘ attendance allowance ’ , a payment made to severely disabled people which they can then choose how to spend on their care . |
| 40 | While we can see that horses are adept , sensitive and subtle communicators , human observers suffer from the disadvantage that our sense organs do not work in the same way as theirs . |
| 41 | The chemistry simply did not work in the same way . |
| 42 | If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction . |
| 43 | If the government intervenes to ‘ peg ’ ( i.e. fix ) the exchange rate or even to prevent excessive fluctuations , the transmission mechanism will not work in the same way as we have described . |
| 44 | It would work in the same way as the gas and electricity national grids . |
| 45 | Milk distribution would work in the same way in that as long as the milk is put into the system at one point , it does not matter where it is taken out . ’ |
| 46 | The inner-city indicators were based largely on territorial assumptions , for example that people might have close relatives living in the same street or the next street , and that people would work in the same places as some of their close neighbours ( L. Milroy 1987 : 141–2 ) . |
| 47 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
| 48 | Do you always work in the same media ? |
| 49 | In order to preserve confidence in the appraisal and promotion system , the management role and to guard against accusations of favouritism , you will not normally work in the same reporting line as a relative or someone with whom you have a close personal relationship . |
| 50 | The ruler does n't only work in the horizontal direction . |
| 51 | His brief , in short , was the owners ' brief — to build a lamp that would work in the methane-rich atmospheres that existed in crept workings . |
| 52 | However close the match of management behaviour to the criteria described , performance management can only work in the broader context of managing change through learning ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 53 | I 'd like to go and work in the Old Bailey with a barrister |
| 54 | Once Anne had accepted the fact that I was n't gon na work in the foreseeable future , and it was her choice that we stay , cos I gave her a clear choice , it was either move away where I could get work , or stay and suffer the wages of the dole like you know . |
| 55 | The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters . |
| 56 | The Labour government will work in the United Nations for a strengthened nuclear non-proliferation treaty , backed by meaningful sanctions and by a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty . |
| 57 | The Labour government will work in the United Nations and the European Community to enhance peace prospects in the Middle East . |
| 58 | Labour will work in the United Nations , the Commonwealth , the European Community and NATO to help bring about the peaceful reunification of Cyprus , on the federal basis advocated by the sovereign government of Cyprus . |
| 59 | ( You ca n't work from the feathery point you 've just planed , so chop it off . |
| 60 | To achieve profound change , women must necessarily work within the existing structure . |