Example sentences of "work [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since young managers can not expect to be rewarded for good short-term performances , there is less incentive to work for short-term results at the expense of longer-term benefits . |
| 2 | They are Chinese , family-run empires whose aged founders remain at the helm , creating inevitable speculation about succession squabbles and , more importantly , about whether such a style of management will continue to work for billion-dollar conglomerates with international ambitions . |
| 3 | The art seems to have died out in Crete altogether , yet mysteriously reappeared in Mycenae in the thirteenth century BC ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 ) has suggested that after the conquest of Minoan Crete by Myceneans , the finest craftsmen may have been taken by force to the mainland and made to work for new masters . |
| 4 | ‘ They are characterized by low boredom thresholds and an inability to work for other people , ’ thought Sir John Hoskyns . |
| 5 | However , it tends to work for other companies rather than their own , although — not unnaturally — they make use of it . |
| 6 | Alex Cockburn , later to work for Black Dwarf and 7 Days before decamping to the States and a 1970s career on Village Voice , provided a somewhat withdrawn interview with the New Statesman 's then right-wing socialist editor Paul Johnson . |
| 7 | Later in India and Africa , entire villages were rounded up and forced to work for minimal wages set by foreign officials . |
| 8 | Maybe he thinks being a Sergeant in the Engineers makes him too good to work for ordinary folk . |
| 9 | Its unique contribution to the community should be recognized — which incidentally would help to raise its status — so that no mother of under-fives should have to go out to work for financial reasons . |
| 10 | ‘ He said I did n't need to work for financial reasons and how could I leave the children ? |
| 11 | While I appreciate that some married mothers do need to work for financial reasons , there are many who do n't . |
| 12 | Returning to London to work for Grand Metropolitan , he became managing director of Le Coq D'or , was a partner at Le Boulestin and Grand Metropolitan Hotels ' group food and beverage director . |
| 13 | These muscles have the function of keeping us upright against the ever-present force of gravity ; they have the advantage of never tiring as they need to work for long periods at a time . |
| 14 | He is a widower , with no family and few interests outside the hotel : as a result , he is prepared to work for long hours and generally acts as night porter during the week . |
| 15 | You will need to be able to work for long periods with a high degree of accuracy , and have really good eyesight . |
| 16 | Another important attribute is the ability to work for long periods almost independently and not feel alienated but , on the other hand , also be able to integrate with the team . |
| 17 | Such a tax is seen as having lower disincentive effects than an income tax because it relates to past effort ; i.e. there is no disincentive effect to work for additional income that is to be consumed . |
| 18 | I was to work for smelly Perkins for a whole week . |
| 19 | There is an enormous growth in opportunities to work for central or local government , a commercial or industrial organisation , the Magistrates ' Courts Service , and the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 20 | Cos she used to work for Green Leaves was it ? |
| 21 | " Young as I was " , he wrote later , " I had a feeling that I was destined to work for big changes and improvements in the lives of men of the sea " . |
| 22 | Most of the 5,000 graduates each year in Northern Ireland choose to work for large firms , for the public sector , or enter the professions . |
| 23 | Nick warmed up his caddie career from 1971 to 1974 carrying Archer 's bag , and then moved on to work for Australian Bruce Crampton until 1977 , when he moved on to another Australian , Graham Marsh . |
| 24 | Likewise , people from industry come to the department to work for short periods . |
| 25 | As a result of the requests we receive from employees , we are aware that many of you give up your own time to work for charitable organisations . |
| 26 | Previously she used to work for British Telecom in tele-marketing . |
| 27 | But short of a stock market crash , a hundred per cent divorce rate and the legal profession starting to work for free , I could n't see it . |
| 28 | Their qualifications are … a healthy distaste for children … an ability to act like a witch … and not least , a willingness to work for free . |
| 29 | The theology of liberation first developed in the 1960s as a Christian Socialist philosophy which holds that it is the duty of the Catholic Church to work for social and economic reforms , particularly in the Third World , and to adopt the cause of the oppressed , These positions were approved at a meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellin , Columbia , in 1968 and represented a watershed for the church in Latin America , The Medellin documents openly denounced the poverty and brutality of the relations of production in Latin America : withdrawing support from the classes in power the bishops called , most significantly , for agrarian reforms , The documents proposed programmes , based on the method of Paulo Freire 's " education for liberation " , which were designed to promote a new sense of community action for change among the poor . |
| 30 | Rogers 's principal political achievement was his work for the National Committee of Organized Labour , a body established in 1899 to work for universal old-age pensions . |