Example sentences of "work for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work for the A-level examination in English Literature means a narrow concentration on a limited number of texts , and curricular pressures do not leave time for the undirected contextual reading that would provide broader literary experience . |
| 2 | ‘ My father was an industrial chemist and he said if you want to go and work for them , go and work for them . ’ |
| 3 | We also work for private landowners . |
| 4 | Complaints were made to us about certain members of our staff ( who , incidentally , no longer work for us ) going into unoccupied floors to make love . |
| 5 | What you wo n't know , unless you work for Ford , is just how high up the hierarchy our criticisms went , and how hard they hit . |
| 6 | Mr Ranjan Wijeratne , the first foreign minister to visit Delhi since the general election , flies home to Colombo today with renewed assurances that India will withdraw its remaining ‘ peace-keeping ’ forces from the island , and work for closer co-operation . |
| 7 | The company was founded by Mr De Haan 's father and two of his brothers also work for the group . |
| 8 | ‘ The argument against a one-party state is shared by many intellectuals , including those in the party and who work for the state , but those in power are for it . |
| 9 | The 231 staff were re-employed indefinitely — at cost of £50,000 each — some doing less work for the same money . |
| 10 | However , none of them is likely to affect those workers who fall outside of collective agreements ; the contract workers and the many women who work for small manufacturing or service sector employers . |
| 11 | This month the clergy forced the hierarchy to issue a letter requesting ethnic Hungarians to stay in Transylvania and work for change rather than seeking to flee to Hungary . |
| 12 | Atlas Powder 's 1,500 employees will join the 8,000 who work for ICI 's worldwide explosives operation . |
| 13 | Good , then Francesca can do the honours from Thursday and work for him thereafter . |
| 14 | The Connecticut engineering company does a small amount of sensitive nuclear-weapons work for the American government . |
| 15 | Managers have two good motives to avoid a deal with creditors for as long as they can : they keep their jobs longer , and they work for shareholders , who do not want a deal either . |
| 16 | Work for all , health for all , that ’ s what they promised . ’ |
| 17 | Other people work for him . |
| 18 | She had to sell her farm and work for a time in a department store . |
| 19 | ‘ But it means you work for me for the rest of your life to pay me back . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He 's one o ’ the singers who work for Radio Glencoe right here in town . |
| 21 | The incident provided excitement and argument for some weeks in Huaiwiri , and much work for Salah Muhammad , even though the girls of the first cohort were nearing the end of their course . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh yes , ' ’ I said , ‘ ‘ but now they all work for the Ministry of the Interior . |
| 23 | Employees might also seek to change their status to self-employed and work for the same company , or others , on a consultancy basis . |
| 24 | But he was in party mood : ‘ I work for whoever 's in government . |
| 25 | We work for the prison service director-general and negotiate with him . |
| 26 | The kits work for a range of tropical diseases and for crop pests . |
| 27 | In the UK 1406 women work for Ciba-Geigy — 23 per cent of the total workforce . |
| 28 | ICI is also promoting the idea of term time only work for mothers with older children . |
| 29 | In the area of support services , work for government bodies including the Departments of Environment and Health , HM Customs and Excise for tobacco and alcohol analysis , Ministry of Defence for food analysis , for example , accounts for 50 per cent of LGC 's activities . |
| 30 | We will place a total embargo on arms sales to regimes which violate human rights , and work for further global agreements among suppliers to control arms sales and technology transfer . |