Example sentences of "' [adj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success was the fruit of some three years ' strenuous work . |
| 2 | The temptation was that the churches ' social work , begun as a way to win the unchurched as well as to help them physically , would cease being the means and instead become the end . |
| 3 | The Orkney parents were never informed by the Islands ' Social Work Department of their own legal rights and the statutory powers , duties and roles of the agencies involved . |
| 4 | While Castells ' early work has usually been criticized for the absence of agency and consequent essentially functionalist explanation , this absence of connection between base and consciousness — an implicit dismissal of the notion that social being determines consciousness — is also a licence for action explanations in a Weberian tradition which completely sever the connection between the production system and social action around reproduction . |
| 5 | There was both their backgrounds — a boy taken from a bleak past into a glorious future by a dedicated schoolteacher — and furthermore this acting business got him off duty , paid him as much cash as a miner 's weekly wage for a few hours ' easy work and had a satisfying tint of glamour … |
| 6 | But all this comes at a cost , one which McDeere only realises as his new employers ' real work becomes increasingly clear . |
| 7 | These estimates assume eight years out of work altogether and twelve years ' part-time work subsequently . |
| 8 | You can not counterfeit forty years ' honest work , or get the same result by being a clever young man who prefers vanilla to orange or heliotrope to lavender perfume . |
| 9 | But at last , after three hours ' hard work , all ninety-nine were on the ship , and the Fram went out to sea again . |
| 10 | Suddenly to be offered , fruit of ten years ' hard work , this plum … . |
| 11 | I carried out stone from the cave , and after many days ' hard work I had a large cave in the side of the hill . |
| 12 | As usual , de Gaulle 's language was loaded : " dispersion " really meant pluralism ; " facilité " meant the French people 's understandable impatience to begin enjoying the rewards of twenty years ' hard work . |
| 13 | The vicar added that unless the new church was allowed three years ' hard work would have been wasted . |
| 14 | — Ten acres of open land in the middle of Aycliffe Industrial Estate , Newton Aycliffe , have been turned into a wildlife site after two years ' hard work . |
| 15 | ‘ The Adventists have an agreement with the Town Hall to give each woman 100 pounds weight of donated US foods monthly , in exchange for three days ' municipal work a week . ’ |
| 16 | Geoff Nutkins ' fine work has been featured in the pages of FlyPast before , as has the excellent Museum he helps to run . |
| 17 | The programme was the product of three weeks ' intensive work by President Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers to produce a compromise between Stanislav Shatalin " s radical proposals and the more cautious plan produced by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov . |
| 18 | Sir Charles ' good work must go on . |
| 19 | District health authority contracts fail to cover hospitals ' existing work rate . |
| 20 | As late as 1891 Engels ' major work on the state still described universal suffrage as merely ‘ the gauge of the maturity of the working class . |
| 21 | A survey by Roberts and Bull of postgraduate library students ' first posts showed that book selection and acquisition was a prominent duty for many of them ; the first four duties reported were cataloguing and classification ( 94% of the sample of students ) , reference and readers ' advisory work ( 76% ) , selection and acquisition ( 67% ) and management ( 38% ) . |
| 22 | This is in principle an ideal source and in the investigators ' initial work has already displayed important and robust relationships between post tax prices , commodity expenditures and other household characteristics . |
| 23 | In turn , I subsequently followed up some of the issues raised in the job interviews in the teachers ' day-to-day work . |
| 24 | Scripts discussed will be original screenplays or adaptations of the writers ' own work . |
| 25 | Bayliss ' own work includes ‘ Ten Green Bottles ’ ( above ) . |
| 26 | These should include examples from different cultures and authors and from pupils ' own work ; |
| 27 | The Progress Book gradually builds into a scrapbook of pupils ' own work , forming a personal and lasting record of what they have learned and achieved . |
| 28 | If the problems requiring analysis are thus quite novel , the Marxist toolkit available for constructing a response has remained heavily influenced by the three approaches to the state articulated in Marx and Engels ' own work , namely , the instrumental , arbiter and functionalist models ( see pp. 208–11 ) . |
| 29 | They derive from the writers ' own work practice and belief system and serve to reinforce it in relation to other groups and cultures . |
| 30 | Space is provided for candidates ' own work . |