Example sentences of "[noun sg] have worked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alameda has worked with the navy for a long time , and 8,000 jobs would go if it closed ; Everett expects 6,000 sailors and their families to arrive when it is finished , and has built most of the infrastructure . |
| 2 | Yasmin has worked with the company for eight years , initially in the Sales Office and laterly as secretary to the Managing Director for the past three years . |
| 3 | Nearly all of the changes made by the Conservatives during the 1980s with respect to wages , benefits , taxation and the treatment of wealth have worked in the same direction . |
| 4 | A 30-strong team has worked around the clock since midnight on Saturday to build the stage and seating area for the hall in readiness for the sell-out performance , which starts at 7.30pm this evening . |
| 5 | A thirty-strong team has worked around the clock since midnight last Saturday to build the stage and tiered seating for the production . |
| 6 | In practice this aura of professionalism has worked to the exclusion of the many who have no such education and training . |
| 7 | On a wider scale , the CAB has worked with the British Deaf Association to influence social policy and legislation for the benefit of the deaf . |
| 8 | Indeed , there is a sense in which most of the working genes in a body can be said to cooperate with each other as a team , because over evolutionary time they ( i.e. ancestral copies of themselves ) have each been part of the environment in which natural selection has worked on the others . |
| 9 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 10 | Whilst remembering the old days I was surprised to hear that ran in the family as his wife 's father had worked for the Company at the turn of the century . |
| 11 | In 1759 he was apprenticed to the civil engineer John Smeaton [ q.v. ] , for whom his father had worked on the new Eddystone lighthouse . |
| 12 | Edward 's father had worked in the diplomatic service in India and had amassed a fortune also , by irregular and secret membership of a Burmese rubber syndicate . |
| 13 | Gilmore said , ‘ The army has worked with the civil authority to bring about a reduction in violence and will continue to do so as long as it is necessary . ’ |
| 14 | His firm has worked on the restoration of many historic buildings in Wales . |
| 15 | Following a successful conference on community enterprise in higher education held in November 1992 , the Enterprise Centre has worked with the Department of Industrial and Social Studies on an elective module in ‘ Community Enterprise ’ . |
| 16 | Much of the old Korean élite had worked with the Japanese for the material rewards and defence of their interests ; the police force was the most hated feature of the colonial era and the vengeance taken on police guilty of torture , extortion and corruption was savage . |
| 17 | For thousands of years the ocean had worked at the chalk cliffs and eventually brought down these trees , and because the place was so isolated and difficult to reach , the branches had escaped use as firewood . |
| 18 | By May , meeting the TUC again , he found their suggestion ‘ very interesting and attractive ’ , but was apprehensive that any consequent investigation of whether the pensioner had worked in the previous week would smack of means-testing . |
| 19 | As part of our continuing review of quality systems , we are completing an evaluation of the way the new system has worked in the first year . |
| 20 | This £30 million contract , won this Spring , is the first site the company has worked in the South Midlands . |
| 21 | The one real consolation that could be salvaged from the whole sorry affair was that the system had worked in the end . |
| 22 | Peter , who was 44 , had joined Rentokil in 1966 and during 26 years with the company had worked in the laboratory , been appointed the youngest ever pest control surveyor in London and been seconded to the Bahamas where he and Lynn spent seven years . |
| 23 | Tony Williams , whose family has worked at the craft for around 110 years in the Truro area , finds thatch is likely to be more secure than other types of roofing . |
| 24 | If a dealer has worked in the business for only a few weeks , the client has no way of telling whether he is senior or not , and some licensed dealers have taken advantage of this . |
| 25 | Seventeen members of the Denning family have worked at the docks since the nineteenth century . |