Example sentences of "and work [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For the first time , representatives from ecumenical , Roman Catholic , mainline Protestant and Evangelical associations will sit down together to share their concerns and visions and to work towards common understanding and joint action for the future .
2 These producer 's lives are not easy though : not only is there a constant pressure on TV bosses to axe unprofitable baby programmes , but their lives are a constant struggle to be simple without being simple-minded , to give information without being dull , and to work in one of the most sophisticated media ever invented without losing that childlike sense of wonder .
3 The variety of models reflects the need to respond to the immediate needs of staff and to work within institutional and financial constraints .
4 ‘ I thought the intelligent thing to do was to go away and work for two years and then come back and teach .
5 Well if that 's case she can go and work for one of the taxi companies and sit in their office and ans
6 That and I appreciate one or two might want to go and work on other divisions but I if generally they were kept on the division that they are now then it could be a very gradual process of going back into uniform .
7 But I wanted Black Francis to come in and work on that track .
8 ‘ I have two or three Alembics , which are lovely guitars — great in a studio if you have the time to sit and work with hi-tech electronics .
9 To achieve these ends , police seek to liaise and work with other agencies , consult their public , and stimulate the self-policing capacities of communities themselves .
10 It is essential to identify and work with any potential co-leader from the beginning .
11 Again , a few instances must suffice to show how the culture of racism , and institutional processes which provide discretionary Al locative power to teachers , tend to intermesh and work against many black students .
12 Last summer , I had an opportunity to live and work in rural Czechoslovakia , a very different culture .
13 Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity .
14 Studying in Edinburgh provides a student with an opportunity to live and work in one of the most attractive cities in the country .
15 Must I go and work in that shop ?
16 B. More people desire to live and work in southern England and around London than in the Midlands .
17 The houses are modern and living conditions are good , but most people would admit that tax concessions are the main incentives which encourage people to live and work in such extreme climatic conditions .
18 And erm the I , I ca n't remember er oh I think most of the work up there that I was on , we were doing different jobs in the mill , like er when very too when the mills were closed at the holidays , we , we used to go up and work in some of the mills .
19 There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act .
20 Gold and silver were beaten and worked into elaborate designs .
21 See how Whitby jet was mined and worked into unique jewellery of great beauty .
22 When he started at Balmain he was hired as a sketcher and worked with six other people in the bureau de dessin .
23 The swords which had been clubbed or shortened into daggers for want of space to use them , now came into more orthodox play ; and the Welsh archers above on the hills were able to select their targets again without killing their own comrades , and worked with supercilious skill as long as there was light to slay by , and an Englishman still alive .
24 On 29th October , 21 days after the accident , some of the miners thought they could hear the sound of moaning and worked with renewed vigour .
25 There was no question that he could have gone into some major productions and worked with some of the more notable directors ; he refused point blank , especially after seeing On a Clear Day .
26 A likely explanation is that , although in book 2 he again collaborated with Danchet ( nos. 1–4 ) , and worked with another eminent librettist , Fuselier ( nos. 5–6 ) , they provided him with poems whose dramatic interest is uneven .
27 While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections .
28 After taking the final Examination the following year he trained and worked for six months as an Assistant Solicitor with a general practice in Hull .
29 Kathryn Sykes has run a pottery , and worked for many years as a window dresser and she has used her sense of style and colour to decorate each room individually .
30 When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich :
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