Example sentences of "worked in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The procedures for legislation , for the scrutiny of expenditure and fur raising taxation have been described to show how this worked in the Victorian period . |
| 2 | It is to these people , who worked in the neurological tradition , we turn next . |
| 3 | When the Nazis took power he went underground and worked in the communist resistance , was arrested and did eight years ' penal servitude . |
| 4 | He worked in the private sector of industry in the w d in the wool industry for many years when wool was the staple industry of . |
| 5 | Many hitherto unpublished photographs accompany details of the parts played by the Royal Observer Corps , Civil Defence , Fire , Police and Ambulance services , plus the men and women who worked in the anti-aircraft emplacements , ATS , Balloon Command , and of course the RAF , who played a major role in photographing and bombing the manufacture and launch sites . |
| 6 | Mr Hann worked in the financial services industry before becoming a lawyer . |
| 7 | More recently there was Geoffrey Prime , who worked in the very heart of GCHQ ( see Chapter 4 ) , and Michael Bettaney , an MI5 officer whose drunken and strange behaviour was in many ways reminiscent of Guy Burgess 's yet similarly went undetected until reported by a defector ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 8 | In 1904–8 Malcolm worked in the military operations directorate of the War Office during the period of reform associated with R. B. Brett , second Viscount Esher [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | Yes and he worked in the High Street and er he what would you say suppose that 's the proper word . |
| 10 | and the people worked in the big hotels |
| 11 | During the war they both worked in the local Heathcoat factory making parts for aeroplanes — he was Chairman ; she was on the factory floor — then in 1946 they began to plant the garden in earnest . |
| 12 | Mr Wilkie , who worked in the Royal Army Educational Corps for 17 years , said : ‘ In some ways I can understand what Grampian Enterprise is doing because these days everything seems to be down to numbers . |
| 13 | Jim Keeble , also an ex Boy Entrant , was posted to Watton in 1954 as a Senior Aircraftsman ( SAC ) Radar Mechanic and he worked in the Special Radio Servicing Flight ( SRSF ) . |
| 14 | McIntosh worked in the discretionary fund management operation of the firm and also looked after the dealing and institutional sales side . |
| 15 | For most of his forty years with the company , he worked in the Finishing Department where he began in 1950 . |
| 16 | During the decade I worked in the National Health Service , I saw countless martyrs — and a good proportion of them were the staff . |
| 17 | Although Hilda 's husband Percy worked in the public health department , he was a part-time fireman for 25 years . |
| 18 | Erm I worked in the medical faculty but I actually left there yesterday and I 'm starting a new post in er ophthalmology on Monday so |
| 19 | A number of years ago she worked in the social services department of Cleveland county council . |
| 20 | She completed her education in Croydon before moving to Guildford where she worked in the Social Services Department and then the personnel department of an Insurance Company . |
| 21 | The Western Region , envious of the success of the London Midland Region Radio Land Cruise Trains , introduced their own on 29th June 1£954 which worked in the opposite direction to the L.M. Region turns . |
| 22 | When I worked in the pharmaceutical industry , trivial naming was taken to an extreme . |
| 23 | According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions . |
| 24 | They were the young Lord Dunglass , who had gone to Munich with Chamberlain as his parliamentary private secretary in 1938 , Chips Channon , an amiable but half-witted American who was Rab Butler 's PPS , Butler himself — a friend and admirer of Chamberlain who worked in the Foreign Office under Halifax — and a fourth as yet unnamed . |
| 25 | Steadily , quietly , till we stumble on their existence with shocked surprise , pit after pit has been sunk and worked in the beautiful stretch of country which covers the eastern half of the county of Nottingham . |
| 26 | Joining Anderson Green in 1949 , he worked in the Inward Freight Department and Hotel Services Accountants of Orient Line before moving to the Accounts Department of Passenger Division following the P&O/Orient Line merger in 1960 . |