Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , where labour is either particularly demanding or is not in itself particularly fulfilling or interesting one could reasonably say it is in the interests of the workers concerned to work short hours and/or work at a relatively low intensity of labour . |
| 2 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 3 | After evaluation , the child 's key worker draws up a ‘ renurturing ’ programme to promote attachment or work on grief or identity . |
| 4 | Most members of the elite accepted the contrast or worked for gradual reform . |
| 5 | As a result , you may have little practical alternative but to agree to increased working hours or to work in a different area , despite the fact that the contract does not provide for such things , if they are commercially necessary from the point of view of the business . |
| 6 | As I walked out of another final-year class at fox Primary , the pupils were building complex models out of balsawood or working on the theories of gearing with big pieces of plastic Meccano . |
| 7 | To avoid the complications of need theories it has become more acceptable to talk about goals , values or work orientations — i.e. to acknowledge that people have tendencies to return to similar ends or goals that seem to be ( sufficiently ) important to them to suggest an underlying theme , pattern or goal behind their behaviour . |
| 8 | Mhairi McMillan , a counsellor at St Andrews University , said : ‘ There may be a sense of glamour attached to a tutor or a lecturer for somebody who 's maybe just come up to university or working their way through . |
| 9 | All Indian weavers , whether employed in large manufactories or working at their own family looms , are under contract to one of the major distributors , who tell them what sizes , colours and designs to weave . |
| 10 | a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment . |
| 11 | You may not have heard of the journalist or author concerned but that does not mean that they are not engaged on a bona fide testing programme or working on a first-class magazine feature . |
| 12 | Was he , as I originally suspected in Salamanca , an FBI agent or working for the CIA ? ft was a mystery I had no longer any wish to clear up . |
| 13 | It is now possible to buy fax systems that run within the word-processing applications to enable faxes to be sent and received on personal computers or work stations . |
| 14 | Being in a band is as valid as anything like getting an apprenticeship or working in a furniture factory , which were the options open to me . |
| 15 | In addition , there are numerous foreign graduates from the Continent and elsewhere with considerable linguistic skills selling hamburgers or working as waiters with poor pay and no social recognition or status . |
| 16 | Industrial applications include two- and three-dimensional eye controllers for virtual reality applications and video games using head-mounted displays , biosignal pattern recognition for teleoperator robotics , two- and three-dimensional eye controlled computer mice ; stress management systems for cars or work environments and audio pattern recognition . |
| 17 | So an important strategy for helping the learner is occasionally to list , at the end of the piece or work you are marking , all the errors the pupil has made , writing them correctly and clearly , and to ask him to study them in the way the Basic spelling strategy " B " suggests ( page 11 ) . |
| 18 | A labourer complained , " touching in particular the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor , not finding a house and providing labour or work for the said William Ashton to do in the parish " . |
| 19 | Tenure guarantees reduce the rational basis for worker and union opposition to moves to automation or work redesign by management . |
| 20 | Is there a Somerville accountant living or working in London who might be able to give her time and expertise to this task ? |
| 21 | there is a basic four-chord harmonic sequence , used as a structural underpinning for much of the piece ; in a conventional rock song this might well have been deployed as a rift or worked into predictable phrase-structure patterns . |
| 22 | Like Kennedy , Clinton has a physical force that works on the campaign trail . |
| 23 | The curve shown suggests a positive feedback that works towards disaster . |
| 24 | What you want is a parasite that works for you , not on you , he had said . |
| 25 | Even in organizations that work well , correctives are needed for inappropriate actions . |
| 26 | All the organizations that worked there were offered alternative accommodation , which they were all sensible enough to accept . |
| 27 | In Wales the opencast industry has exploited shallow reserves lying close to the limestone outcrop with the result that working and restored sites are concentrated on a relatively narrow tract of land stretching from Montgomery to Kidwelly . |
| 28 | How many how many can you remember off hand , riveters that worked as as family riveters ? |
| 29 | Big Cassie was telling me a story about a couple of riveters that worked together , a family , brothers or cousins or something , and er she says that the guy was a riveter , he used to Maybe if the guy was on the inside holding , on the riveter on the outside this I 'm sure she said they were brothers , he would shout one of them from outside you know , shout his name and the boy would look through the hole you know , and he 's he would spit on him he would spit through the hole . |
| 30 | It is here that the goal of developing a different vision , for locating a different set of values , becomes pre-eminent — because with that different vision , with a determination to create a new set of values which recognises intrinsic value in all living creatures , we can properly inform and inspire a programme that works , albeit a gradualist one ! |