Example sentences of "work for the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , as you know , Gethyn does work for the Church in Wales now and this , in a special way , is a testifies to the fact that he is er an ecumenical person . |
| 2 | Because they believed — and we had better believe it also — that if they could make individuals conscious only of the need for personal gratification , they would have neither desire nor energy to combine and work for the downfall of the enemy . |
| 3 | Poland and the Soviet Union would work for the transformation of the existing bloc alliances into a new system of collective European security . |
| 4 | On the roll of a 1 or 2 the staff has run out of energy and will not work for the remainder of the battle . |
| 5 | In Washington , the administration has now let it be known that it will work for the softening of the amendment 's consequences , provided — and forgetting Kosovo for the moment — that Stipe Mesic , a Croat , is no longer obstructed by the Serbs from taking up the post of chairman ( for one year ) of Yugoslavia 's eight-member presidency . |
| 6 | During his first twenty years at Finsbury , Meldola published more than 250 papers and reports , and during his presidency of the Institute of Chemistry he did much work for the development of all aspects of its activities . |
| 7 | It was agreed that the Georgian and Russian governments , together with the government of the North Ossetian autonomous republic ( inside the Russian Federation ) , would work for the resettlement of the tens of thousands of refugees displaced from South Ossetia by the conflict , and for the " restoration of the lawful local government bodies " . |
| 8 | She does n't work for the company at all ? |
| 9 | PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — The Czechoslovak dissident playwright Vaclav Havel said he had received a message from Poland 's Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , that he would work for the release of two Czechoslovak human rights campaigners , Jan Carnogursky and Miroslav Kusy . |
| 10 | We are working hard to solve the problem and if we succeed it will not only be good for Arsenal , but will work for the betterment of England , too . |
| 11 | In 1986 , the defendant left but did further work for the plaintiff as a self-employed consultant and , as such , the defendant rewrote the program in assembly language . |
| 12 | During the election campaign the PCCh , which was not legalized , had announced on Nov. 9 , 1989 , that it would work for the victory of the presidential opposition candidate ; the former secretary-general of the PCCh , Luis Corvalán , who had returned to Chile on Oct. 12 after 13 years in exile , had made a similar declaration . |
| 13 | But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less . |
| 14 | You do n't work for the KGB by any chance ? ’ |
| 15 | There are two important fields of action in which we can work for the restoration of a vigorous and healthy economic life . |