Example sentences of "work for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The realists , insofar as they advocated training and expertise in the specialized areas of law , generally supported this programme and a number of prominent realists left law schools to work for Roosevelt in Washington . |
| 2 | Inevitably , political differences in priorities and analyses exist , some women emphasis-ing the need to work for changes within the present housing system , while the priority of others is to construct alternative housing situations for women . |
| 3 | Its 200-page Environmental Management for Hotels : The Industry Guide to Best Practice , to be launched on Mar 21 , points out that energy conservation measures pay for themselves through cost saving and hence improve the business ' competitiveness ; that the pressure is on worldwide to demonstrate commitment to the sustainable development of tourism ; that staff will want to work for companies with good environmental practices ; that concern for the environment is shared by an increasing number of those involved in hotels ; and that a good track record in the field helps when developing new ventures or projecting a brand image . |
| 4 | He used to work for Liverpool City I think , and he was called Dave there . |
| 5 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |
| 6 | to work for education for all and for the opportunity of free expression and communication ; |
| 7 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 8 | It shows good practice that the social worker did not withdraw once the immediate situation was resolved by admission to Part III , but continued to work for reconciliation , and to lessen guilt , so that all feelings were beginning to be worked through . |
| 9 | I inquired after my brother , Max , who had finally agreed a few months ago to work for Dad 's firm , and I established that he was in Paris for a few more days . |
| 10 | He called on its rivals in UNITA to work for peace . |
| 11 | So we pray that you will guide the efforts of the United Nations , and of national leaders , to work for peace . |
| 12 | Amid reports of continuing subregional tensions , including incursions into Sierra Leone by Charles Taylor 's rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , the field commander of the 10,000-strong Economic Community of West African States Ceasefire Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) appealed to Taylor on May 6 to work for peace . |
| 13 | Although the PAC and Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo ) refused to sign the accord they gave separate undertakings to work for peace . |
| 14 | The welcome 's over … the introductions have been made … today it 's been down to work for Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby … their plan for the first game |
| 15 | The third congress of the opposition movement Rukh , held on Feb. 29-March 1 , voted to work for Ukraine 's departure from the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) and to oppose the government if it ignored Rukh 's programme . |
| 16 | I WAS eminently unqualified to work for NME . |
| 17 | If you find that the shaping instructions do n't seem to work for machine knitting , then you need to opt for the EASILY KNITTED STITCH LAYOUT . |
| 18 | It was made by a guy named Rick Turner who used to work for Alembic . |
| 19 | A guy called Gerry Cattini — used to work for Kemp . ’ |
| 20 | I used to work for McGovern , who challenged and lost the Presidential election to Nixon . |
| 21 | The result was that Hawker Siddeley soon stopped making robots altogether and , disenchanted , I left in 1972 to work for Pye Dynamics in Bushey , Hertfordshire , part of the Philips group . |
| 22 | But they seemed to work for researchers whose single-minded concern was to delineate the biochemistry , neurophysiology and cell biology of learning and memory . |
| 23 | It is difficult to work for development and progression in the tasks at a level appropriate to each group . |
| 24 | However , it is not possible to require full-time staff to work for periods of duty which only cover the peak workloads . |
| 25 | Welfare expert to work for Legion |
| 26 | Where there is no further land for settlement and for people to set themselves up as independent farmers or pastoralists , there is an added reason for a land-controlling class to emerge , firstly because land hunger tends to differentiate a peasantry and secondly there is no alternative for those without enough land but to work for others . |
| 27 | Under the eyes and ears of strangers , they would have to work for others rather than themselves . |
| 28 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 29 | Mr Moir , who used to work for North of England Newspapers , publishers of The Northern Echo , said : ‘ Wherever we go with him we are stopped by autograph hunters . |
| 30 | They derive from both the operation of large units ( often highly mechanised and characterised by monoculture and high energy demands sometimes supplied from local sources ) ; and the small peasantry itself which has to work for part of its income on larger enterprises . |