Example sentences of "work was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As was the custom , such applicants were expected to do some work in exchange for shelter in the sleeping cell and for their food , and such work was at the discretion of the labour master . |
| 2 | The overriding emphasis in all this work was on the ‘ network ’ , which in silicates was found to be made of regular chains or layers of SiO4 molecules sharing common oxygens . |
| 3 | The emphasis in this work was on the collection of statistical data , i.e. in the form of numbers , rather than descriptions of particular ways of life . |
| 4 | Apart from the kitchen , the only other major work was on the bathroom , which was at the back of the house , through the third bedroom . |
| 5 | As Faraday went deeper into electromagnetism , he began to leave his contemporaries behind ; his work was on the boundary between inductive experimental science and deductive physics , and failed to fit easily into either category . |
| 6 | Josephine your work was on the top and I thought goodness that ca n't be Josephine 's writing . |
| 7 | We chatted a little after the movie and well out over the Atlantic at 37,000ft I commented that a lot of my consultancy work was with the British Conservative Party . |
| 8 | All of their work was with the ball . |
| 9 | And although my initial work was with the individual child , I found that in a large number of cases , the parental interest was of a high order and , and the children 's willingness to involve parents in their behavioural difficulties was also of a high order , so I found myself working not just within the school , not just with the child , but in a parent-child situation . |
| 10 | Its architect was J. L. Pearson , a highly accomplished church designer , most of whose work was for the ‘ High Church ’ wing of Anglicanism . |
| 11 | Live work was for the future and would follow when Kylie felt fully ready for the demands of life on the road — and for now there were a million other business opportunities to be pursued . |
| 12 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and I emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 13 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 14 | Management had ‘ failed abysmally to ensure work was of the proper standard ’ . |
| 15 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 16 | Hutchinson 's first official work was under the navy and customs committee of the Long Parliament ; by 1645 he was acting as Vane 's deputy in the very important post of navy treasurer . |
| 17 | She also picked a shiny rayon for the yarn after dropping stitches right left and centre and making several false starts , I studied the pattern and taught myself how to latch up and darn in ( when the work was off the machine ) so that my ‘ botching ’ did not show . |
| 18 | Clearly some of this work was beyond the scope of the youngest children , nevertheless the reception class joined in wherever possible and their teacher attended all staff meetings and discussions . |
| 19 | MacWhirter , though settled in London from his middle years on , was a Scottish painter whose best work was in the tradition of landscape painting traced back to the early seventeenth century . |
| 20 | Last time their work was in THE FACE it had to be censored . |
| 21 | Parents ( and much of my work was in the poorer areas of the inner city ) were better informed . |
| 22 | Most of Foulston 's work was in the Greek Revival style — which it was his role almost single-handedly to propagate in the area — but his best-known project was the extraordinary group of buildings erected at Ker Street , Devonport , in 1821–4 , an extreme example of the Picturesque stylistic eclecticism of the early nineteenth century . |
| 23 | I used to do all sorts of other jobs to keep going — I used to be so confident that work was round the corner that when I became a cellarman in a wine shop , I said to my family , ‘ Of course , I 'll only be here for a week or two , you know , ’ and a year later I was still there . |