Example sentences of "[conj] working [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer , when he was not studying or working to earn money , young Cottle took a bus deep into the Vale of Glamorgan . |
| 2 | We can only assume that it intends to gain acceptability and legitimacy within the ranks of the sold-out lackeys of the Labour Party , rather than working to organise the most exploited sections of ordinary people — women . |
| 3 | However , I would argue that working to ensure quality for our families and other animals may be mere self-interest , but it is enlightened self-interest . |
| 4 | Because she alone has the capacity to give birth to and nurse children , her primary function is seen as one of mother and homemaker … it is clear that working occupies a more important place in the lives of men than women . |
| 5 | And while the arm and thigh muscles do the greatest share of the work , the rider 's whole body is at fever pitch during a race , fighting the negative forces , and working to take advantage of positive forces . |
| 6 | Support community-based organisations striving for peace and reconciliation and working to eliminate sectarianism and discrimination in religious life , education , housing and politics . |
| 7 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 8 | The 64-year-old minister was nominated for the honour by colleagues at Walworth Methodist Church , south London , where he has spent the past 15 years campaigning tirelessly against racism and working to improve race relations within inner cities . |
| 9 | Specifically working to gain insight into the characteristics of addictive disease and working to change one 's understanding and behaviour in order to reverse them . |
| 10 | Ms Eagle added : ‘ Only the Labour Party is taking the question of unemployment seriously and working to develop policies that will ease the present situation . ’ |
| 11 | Until a few years ago , married women had to have paid full NI contributions for half the time they were married and working to get anything at all in their own right . |
| 12 | They should also press for the training necessary to enable them to carry out their duties of securing provision for individual pupils and working to ensure that special education is esteemed as highly as any other form of education within a system in which schools will have greater control over resources and the setting of priorities for their use . |
| 13 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |
| 14 | Must we not understand by socialization of the means of production that the means of living and working belong to everyone ? ’ |
| 15 | But working to scale from a cartoon drawing and meeting a tight deadline posed problems for the sculpture 's designer . |
| 16 | And I 've rejected nothing , but the things that happen when working expand the horizons and the understanding . |
| 17 | When WORKING disappears from the screen , the palette will have been saved to the disk , ready for you to call up at any time in the future . |
| 18 | The onus falls on the skill of the trainer who must take advantage of the experience of all those within the group , as well as working to improve areas of trainees ’ personal weaknesses . |
| 19 | You may throw cells together at random , over and over again for a billion years , and not once will you get a conglomeration that flies or swims or burrows or runs , or does anything , even badly , that could remotely be construed as working to keep itself alive . |