I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a business/working lunch (=a lunch during which you also do business)
▪ She was having a business lunch with a customer.
a good deal of trouble/time/work etc
▪ I went to a good deal of trouble to get this ticket.
a hard day’s work/walking/skiing etc
▪ There’s a sauna where you can relax after a hard day’s skiing.
a machine operates/works
▪ The machine works using solar power.
a strategy works
▪ The Government’s economic strategy was not working.
a system operates/works (=exists and is used)
▪ He tried to explain how the planning system operates.
a system works
▪ The air-conditioning system isn’t working.
a system works (=is successful)
▪ The public needs to see that the complaints system works.
a tactic works (=is successful)
▪ Those tactics won’t work with me any more – I know you too well.
a work permit
▪ She had problems getting a work permit for the States.
a work situation (=a situation at work)
▪ These problems often arise in work situations.
a working breakfast (=at which you talk about business)
▪ She suggested we meet at 8.30 for a working breakfast.
a working partnership
▪ Theirs is one of the most fruitful working partnerships in modern science.
a working relationship (=a relationship appropriate for people who work together)
▪ She’s a fine actress and we developed a great working relationship.
a working/learning environment
▪ Most people prefer a quiet working environment.
a work/student visa
▪ They'd sent their daughter abroad on a student visa.
an hour’s/six hours' etc work (=work that it took you an hour/six hours etc to do)
▪ I did two hours’ work before breakfast.
arduous task/work
▪ the arduous task of loading all the boxes into the van
be worth the time/effort/work
▪ It was a great evening, and definitely worth all the hard work.
be/move/work in sync
▪ The two mechanisms have to work in sync.
be/work to the disadvantage of sb (=make someone unlikely to be successful)
▪ This system works to the disadvantage of women.
carry out work
▪ You’ll have to get a builder to carry out the work.
carry out work
▪ You’ll have to get a builder to carry out the work.
carrying out essential maintenance work
▪ Engineers are carrying out essential maintenance work on the main line to Cambridge.
case work
casual work
▪ Chris has occasional casual work but mostly he is unemployed.
changing patterns of work/behaviour etc
▪ Changing patterns of work mean that more people are able to work from home.
class/team/work etc mate
▪ Dad’s office mates are throwing a party for him.
clerk of works
conservation work
▪ The group spent four months carrying out conservation work in the rainforest.
construction work
▪ Construction work on the new road is expected to take two years.
craft work (=things made by craftsmen or women)
▪ Craft work, such as hand-knitted items or decorated cakes, often sells well.
creative work
▪ Diaghilev did his great creative work in France.
definitive study/work/guide etc
▪ the definitive study of Victorian railway stations
development work (=the work of helping development in poor areas)
▪ Further funds are required to allow the development work to continue.
devise/work out a strategy (also formulate a strategyformal)
▪ We had to devise strategies for saving money.
do some/any/ no etc work
▪ She was feeling too tired to do any work.
do work experience
▪ Why do I have to do work experience?
done an honest day’s work
▪ I bet he’s never done an honest day’s work in his life!
experimental work/studies
▪ experimental studies on birds and animals
find/work out a compromise
▪ A temporary compromise was found.
get off work
▪ What time do you get off work?
get...worked up
▪ You shouldn’t get so worked up about it.
give sb work/homework etc
▪ How much homework are you given in a week?
▪ He’s always giving us chores to do around the house.
grunt work
▪ These guys do the grunt work in preparing tax returns.
happy in your work/job etc
hard work
▪ To be successful in sport requires hard work and a great deal of determination.
heavy...work
▪ My son does most of the heavy outdoor work.
keep up the good work! (=continue to work hard and well)
knock off work
▪ We usually knock off work at about twelve on Saturday.
line of work/business
▪ What line of business is he in?
meaningful work
▪ They want a chance to do meaningful work.
of working age
▪ 55 percent of the people are of working age.
operate/work a machine
▪ Have you been taught to operate the machine properly?
out of work
▪ out-of-work actors
perform work
▪ Over 6,000 people in our community of 100,000 perform volunteer work.
perform/work a miracle (=achieve something very good which no one thought was possible)
▪ The new coach has worked miracles, and the team have won their last four games.
pioneering work/research/efforts etc
▪ the pioneering work of NASA scientists
plan/work sth out in detail
▪ I haven't worked our trip out in detail yet.
practical work
▪ Archaeology students are required to do a certain amount of practical work.
public works
▪ the public works department
relief work
▪ The charity raised over five million pounds for relief work.
remote working
repair work
▪ The council has been responsible for appointing contractors to carry out this repair work.
repetitive work/tasks/jobs
▪ repetitive tasks like washing and ironing
research work
▪ Doctor Fox received world-wide acclaim for her research work on breast cancer.
restoration work
▪ Major restoration work will begin in May.
return to work
▪ Jean is well enough now to consider her return to work.
routine work
▪ We need more junior staff to help out with the routine work.
sb's absence from work/school
▪ You will be entitled to sick pay in respect of any absence from work through sickness.
sb’s place of work/employmentformal
▪ Please give the address of your place of work.
sb’s work/business/school address
▪ I sent the letter to her work address.
▪ My business address is on my card.
school/work clothes
▪ Work clothes tend to be black, blue, or grey.
set up/establish a working group (to do sth)
▪ The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem.
sewage works
shift work/working (=working shifts)
▪ Does the job involve shift work?
shift work/working (=working shifts)
▪ Does the job involve shift work?
social work
start school/college/work
▪ I started college last week.
take time off (work/school)
▪ I rang my boss and arranged to take some time off.
temporary work
▪ You might want to consider temporary work until you decide what you want to do.
the complete works of (=a book, CD etc containing everything Shakespeare wrote)
▪ the complete works of Shakespeare
the working poor (=poor people who have jobs, rather than unemployed people)
▪ These tax-cut proposals are targeted at the working poor.
the working/lower class
▪ At this time most of the working class was very poor.
thirsty work (=work that makes you want a drink)
▪ All this digging is thirsty work .
too much like hard work (=it would involve too much work)
▪ Becoming a doctor never interested him. It was too much like hard work.
undertake work
▪ The work is being undertaken by team of experts.
voluntary work/service
▪ He does voluntary work with young offenders.
work a shift
▪ They work quite long shifts.
work as a consultant
▪ We have 170 staff working as computer consultants to clients.
work as a spy
▪ He died while working as a government spy.
work as a team
▪ You have to learn to work as a team.
work ethic
▪ They instilled the work ethic into their children.
work experience placement/programme/scheme etc
work experience
▪ She’s well qualified but has no relevant work experience.
work for a company
▪ How long have you been working for your present company?
work for a firm
▪ Chris has been working for this firm for nearly 20 years.
work from/at home (=do your work at home instead of at an office)
▪ I work at home three days a week.
work in a factory
▪ Donna works in a shoe factory.
work in harmony
▪ He urged all Americans to work in harmony to solve the nation’s problems.
work in shifts
▪ We had to work in shifts – four hours on and four off.
work in the fields (=do farm work)
▪ Most villagers work in the fields during the day.
work late
▪ Ellen has to work late tonight.
work load
▪ My work load has doubled since Henry left.
work long hours (=work for more time than is usual)
▪ Doctors often work long hours.
work magic (=do magic)
▪ What do you expect me to do? I can’t work magic!
work of art
▪ That cake’s a real work of art!
work on a farm
▪ I used to work on a farm when I was younger.
work on a project
▪ A team has been working on the project for three years.
work on an assumption (=act according to something that may not be true)
▪ The police seemed to be working on the assumption that he was guilty.
work on your fitness (=try to improve your fitness)
▪ He's working on his fitness in preparation for the New York marathon.
work out an equation
▪ I spent over an hour trying to work out the equation.
work overtime
▪ He's been working a lot of overtime.
work part-time
▪ She wants to work part-time after she’s had the baby.
work permit
work release
work sth out on a calculator
▪ Work it out on a calculator if you can't do it in your head.
work stoppage
▪ a work stoppage by government employees
work the soil (=prepare the soil to grow plants)
▪ They worked the soil with hoes and forks.
work to a deadline (=have to finish something by a deadline)
▪ We're all under pressure and working to deadlines.
work to your advantage (=make you have an advantage – often used when this is unexpected)
▪ Sometimes a lack of experience can work to your advantage.
work towards a goal
▪ We are all working towards similar goals.
work/be sold for a pittance
▪ The crop was sold for a pittance.
worked hard
▪ She has worked hard all her life.
worked in pairs
▪ We worked in pairs for the role-play exercise.
worked undercover
▪ He worked undercover in Germany and Northern Ireland.
worked up a thirst (=done something that made us thirsty)
▪ We had worked up a thirst , and so we decided to stop for a beer.
worked up
▪ You shouldn’t get so worked up about it.
worked...into a frenzy
▪ Doreen had worked herself into a frenzy.
working capital
working class
▪ Marx wrote about the political struggles of the working class.
working closely
▪ The successful applicant will be working closely with our international staff.
working conditions
▪ An office must be able to provide safe working conditions.
working feverishly
▪ Congress is working feverishly to pass the bill.
working for peanuts
▪ I’m tired of working for peanuts.
working girl
working group
▪ The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem.
working model (=one with parts which move)
▪ a working model of a steam engine
working nine to five
▪ She didn’t like working nine to five.
working papers
working party
working prototype
▪ a working prototype of the new car
Working Tax Credit
working together
▪ We’ve very much enjoyed working together.
work/labour/toil in obscurity (=work without being well-known)
▪ After years of working in obscurity, his paintings are now hanging in museums.
works of art
▪ The exhibition features works of art by Picasso and Matisse.
works of literature
▪ He has read many of the major works of literature.
work/study etc full-time
▪ She works full-time and has two kids.
▪ The success of the series enabled her to concentrate full-time on writing.
work/writer/man etc of genius
▪ Wynford was an architect of genius.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ James worked closely with his bishops, and in particular with George Abbot, whom he appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1611.
▪ Both had been determined to overcome authoritarian rule from Addis Ababa and had worked closely together to achieve this end.
▪ Walsh returns as an administrative assistant to Seifert and will work closely with second-year offensive coordinator Marc Trestman.
▪ The primary aim of the central bank is to work closely with the government and so to operate in the public interest.
▪ We will work closely with our partners in foreign policy and in the war on international crime.
▪ Under this system, junior and senior nurses work closely together in the care of a group of patients.
▪ We had worked closely together during those rushed summer months.
hard
▪ He remains convinced that it is imperative to work hard on his swing.
▪ He was not himself a classic workaholic; if he worked hard, it was not demonically so.
▪ It's a blow to University students who've had to cancel performances they've worked hard to produce.
▪ We both worked hard in our different ways.
▪ We all worked hard at the lesson, no time wasted.
▪ I had worked hard every summer since I was eleven, and there was an entrepreneurial streak in me.
▪ The resident proprietor has worked hard at maintaining an excellent reputation for service and comfort.
▪ Most of the time he kept to Inmself, stayed in his hotel room, and worked hard.
together
▪ But we must discuss areas where we can cooperate and work together.
▪ As any teacher can tell you, this is made much easier when the entire school works together to build this ethos.
▪ The two have worked together to produce a booming Sunbelt and a brisk new stirring of the ethnic melting pot.
▪ How can we work together to find these ways of being, relating, and creating?
▪ She urged women to re-examine their roles in society and to work together to become decision-makers.
▪ Parents of such a child need to work together as a team.
▪ I am therefore writing to ask if you would be interested in our working together to produce AppleMac versions of the programs.
▪ Our working together has been fine.
well
▪ The arrangements are working well and I have every confidence that the job will be completed satisfactorily on time.
▪ Their ability to map a statistical distribution, however, works well only with large networks.
▪ The abbreviated lower horn works well with the tight curve of the waist, and aids comfort when sitting to play.
▪ The four-star officer believed his renewed efforts on character development were working well, according to Navy sources.
▪ On reading through these pages you will be convinced that this is exactly the way in which the things could work well.
▪ The first time he tried it on me, the system did not work well.
▪ Nor does it work well outside cities; its short range demands a dense network of base stations.
▪ He worked well with the tutors and finished most of his courses.
■ NOUN
home
▪ He works in an office, I work at home.
▪ MacArthur says that the husband alone should work outside the home.
▪ The very idea of working from home should have been anathema to me.
▪ Sometimes she made six dollars a day, working in two private homes.
▪ Students on the part-time course will work from home, visiting Middlesbrough only for the final examination.
▪ Nearly a third of respondents also said they increased their productivity by working at home.
▪ Spending also varies according to whether married women work outside the home.
▪ As might be expected, phone companies are major advocates and practitioners of working from home or other remote locations.
system
▪ This unsophisticated system will probably work very well if there are not too many large mailings over the year.
▪ The other systems do not work.
▪ The system works without any conscious overseeing or organizing.
▪ If student reports are anything to go on, the system does appear to work at Thayer.
▪ This system makes children work whether they find the work interesting or not.
▪ The system could work properly only if the values of the two currencies did not drift too far apart from each other.
▪ For the system to work properly, several practical and technical obstacles will need to be overcome over the next 12 months.
▪ As the churning mass swelled within him his resilient Goblin digestive system got to work on the over-abundance of raw material.
way
▪ It only works the other way round.
▪ We work in whatever ways we can toward the end of capitalist patriarchy.
▪ That institutions work in this way, contributing to the general statusquo, becomes taken for granted by Radcliffe-Brown.
▪ Gains in nonagricultural employment and total hours worked led the way.
▪ I work in a controlled way, so mentally it's exhausting.
▪ Chiming, echoed tones, like timbres that start as tastes in the mouth then work their way somehow into the ear.
▪ I might have guessed you'd something worked out in the way of revenge, but your timing's gone a bit wrong.
▪ Tom, like most of the others, will need lots of reinforcement as he works his way through the change.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Ghatak was a committed Marxist, who began his career working in a political theatre company.
▪ Horowitz began working at the company when he was in high school.
▪ Harry remembered the crystal chandeliers and as the warmth began to work through him he dozed.
▪ Now, to cover all eventualities, I at once began to work on both lungs.
▪ At other times a helpful listener can help the woman clarify her concerns and begin to work on resolving them.
▪ I began to work in steel mills when I was seventeen to support my education.
▪ And he began to work hard at them.
continue
▪ Most of all, they have to continue working and playing hard.
▪ It's a familiar routine, as Bush continues to work the centre ground in his presidential contest with Al Gore.
▪ The photographer Burkett has also shown at Etherton before, and like Marcus-Orlen he continues to work in clearly staked-out territory.
▪ He continues to work, although he is weaker than he was.
▪ He will continue to work as a financial planner for Denver stock broker Dain Bosworth while he tries to make the team.
▪ After completing his articles Knowles continued working in his father's architectural office.
▪ He also will intensify the fight against crime and continue to work for welfare reform.
return
▪ It was agreed that he might return to work from the hospital when he felt better able to cope.
▪ It consistently disadvantages older workers, young people, and women returning to work.
▪ In later episodes of thirtysomething, Hope returned to work.
▪ The co-workers returned to work the next day.
▪ However, next morning the actors return to work and the organizational drama continues.
spend
▪ We had spent nine months working on the first one!
▪ Lee has spent 23 years working as a public-interest lawyer.
▪ We launched Divine with half a million pounds, 60 per cent of which was spent on working with the producers.
▪ I have now spent four years working in government to implement this conviction, which members of both parties share.
▪ We spend 6 weeks working with local churches doing outreach, and then have one final week of school.
▪ Research shows that people consistently overestimate the time they spend working and underestimate their leisure time.
▪ Mr Tomlinson says he spent two months solidly working from 5.30am in the morning until 10.30 in the evening, including weekends.
▪ In 1967, he began spending the off season working as an assistant to one of California Gov.
start
▪ He starts to draw, working his way over the sheets with a brush and ink.
▪ Nevertheless, after she started working as a nurse, she began studying in her off hours with a voice teacher.
▪ I therefore started working for the first time in my life.
▪ It must have been the first time he had managed that since he started working for Pierce &038; Pierce.
▪ But your first paragraph is also your opportunity to start actively working on those questions.
▪ I was doing everything just like we discussed, and it was starting to work.
▪ One had to start somewhere and work quickly to meet the growing social need.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(come/work etc) under the umbrella of sth
▪ A whole range of behaviour is subsumed under the umbrella of bureaucratic self-interest.
▪ Finally, war served to bring all members of a society, soldier and civilian, under the umbrella of national consciousness.
▪ Governments also use the more industrially orientated labs under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer society.
(in) working order
▪ Controllers regained contact with the satellite after three anxious hours, and discovered that it appeared to be in full working order.
▪ Every lock in the house is in perfect working order.
▪ Hall of Power - a range of engines and heavy machinery, most of which are in working order and operated daily.
▪ Oxygen, suction and emergency equipment must be at hand and in working order. 2.
▪ The tenant need not pay rent until the business premises are put back in working order again.
▪ There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order.
▪ These older tankers require continuous maintenance to keep them in good, safe working order at sea.
▪ You did have to keep it clean and in good working order.
a nasty piece of work
▪ Cyril and Wyatt had gone around together with that other boy, that Donald, who was a nasty piece of work.
▪ You'd best steer clear of him, Manderley, he's a nasty piece of work.
a working knowledge of sth
▪ Andy has a good working knowledge of accounting practices.
▪ Ideally, you will have a degree in engineering or science with a working knowledge of heat transfer mechanisms.
▪ In this case, having a working knowledge of the types of microcomputer available will be important.
▪ Lambert was himself a skilled administrator, with a working knowledge of sanitary reform.
▪ Those who supervise clerical supervisors must have a working knowledge of word processing, communications, data processing, and recordkeeping.
be a (real) piece of work
be all in a day's work
be hard at it/work
▪ Ahead of her, Bite the Bullet's jockey was hard at work while the horse on his outside was clearly beaten.
▪ Cook was making fresh cornbread rolls for breakfast and lesser mortals were hard at it with brooms and mops.
▪ He was hard at work on the translation of a play which had to be ready two days later.
▪ Not much is said, as each young person, and Bill, is hard at work at the task at hand.
▪ Over the road, Sylvia Brackley and daughter, Karen are hard at work on this year's crop.
▪ Thacker had set him a spot of overtime and he was hard at it in the mill.
▪ Today, all eight of the Van Andel and DeVos offspring are hard at work making this company better.
▪ When she was hard at work and on top of things her productivity was exceptional.
be in (good) working/running order
▪ Hall of Power - a range of engines and heavy machinery, most of which are in working order and operated daily.
▪ The locomotive was in working order at the time and negotiations proceeded which resulted in transportation to Swanage as described above.
▪ To this day the milling machinery is in working order.
▪ Two isn't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order, and now they were living in hotels.
be in work mode/holiday mode etc
be up to your ears in work/debt/problems etc
be working overtime
▪ Price's wit and sarcasm are working overtime in this production.
▪ He said engineers are working overtime to fix the problems.
▪ His brain was working overtime and he just stood there goggling.
▪ His brain was working overtime now.
▪ It looked as if his karma was working overtime.
▪ Meanwhile, aluminum manufacturers were working overtime to supply the armament industry.
▪ Soon after I left them, they were working overtime to fulfil a big order, when there was a breakdown.
▪ Their local maternity unit was working overtime.
▪ Then he announced gleefully that light bulb orders had jumped, suggesting that factories were working overtime.
close work
▪ Embroidery is very close work.
▪ A final recommendation of the consultants was a radical attempt to forge a closer working relationship between the board and staff members.
▪ Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work.
▪ He and Clinton have formed such a close working partnership that Kemp, as vice president, would like to emulate Gore.
▪ Microscopes can only be used for close work, telescopes for viewing objects from arm's length distance to infinity.
▪ One benefit, he said, is the closer working relationship between defense contractors and the Navy.
▪ Task lighting usually entails higher levels of illumination needed for reading and other close work.
collaborative effort/work/project etc
▪ But from the start, feature animation was a collaborative effort.
▪ Combined with virtual reality capabilities, the team can design its own ideal collaborative work space without the constraints of physical reality.
▪ One of the most powerful forms of learning to which I was exposed on my course was active collaborative work.
▪ Since their Nobel lectures describe one collaborative effort, I suggest that we listen to them without interruption.
▪ The activities would demand collaborative work, role allocation and sharing.
▪ The early deadline gave little time for meetings and collaborative effort, or a very considered response to the new timetabling arrangements.
▪ The project being proposed by the Commission would put up £450 million for collaborative work in computers and automation.
▪ When it came time for his second album, he decided to make it a collaborative effort.
collected works/poems/essays/edition
▪ Box sets collect music into greatest hits, anthologies, chronologies, complete collected works, best-of and worst-of packages.
▪ He took down a copy of Wordsworth's collected poems.
▪ His collected works, he said, probably fill four foot ten of shelf space.
▪ Its author Tom Holt began, if I remember right, by publishing his collected poems at the age of 12.
▪ Mr Zhivkov's 44-volume collected works has disappeared from Sofia's bookshops since he was removed.
▪ My collected works rendered the Horsehead Nebula, goofy space cruisers, robots, and Saturn.
▪ They were first printed by William Caxton in 1475; the collected works were first illustrated by William Thynne in 1532.
day-to-day work/business/life etc
▪ Also the day-to-day work of schools and the task of assessing pupils assumed a higher importance than the development of new curriculum.
▪ But since the arrival of Robins, he has taken a backseat role with day-to-day business being handled by the new chairman.
▪ Directors were given the exclusive right to manage the day-to-day business of the company.
▪ In our day-to-day lives, including day-to-day scientific lives, we have little need of such confirmed hypotheses.
▪ It also recognises that day-to-day business and executive authority is vested in line management.
▪ Justices, of course, are accustomed, as part of their day-to-day work, to assessing costs of comparatively small amounts.
▪ The problem arises because there is nothing in our day-to-day life to provide us with sufficient exercise.
▪ While with the Chargers for the past two years, McNeely oversaw the day-to-day business operations.
detective work
▪ It takes some detective work to trace the symptom back to its cause.
▪ Brilliant detective work with a little luck tossed in to catch the savvy killer.
▪ Drawn to the subject via a footnote, McKillop did some literary detective work to uncover Deeks's story.
▪ Finding the missing parts has been a lucky blending of good fortune and good detective work.
▪ In fact tying a pollution to its source can be a tricky piece of detective work.
▪ It takes a bit of detective work to trace the symptom back to the cause.
▪ Late one night, they ran into Ken Creese, one of two detectives working the case.
▪ Much slow and painstaking geological detective work is needed to make correlations such as these, but the results can be very valuable.
▪ So it would take more years of dogged detective work by a handful of investigators to connect the dots.
do sb's dirty work
▪ Tell Fran I'm not going to do her dirty work for her.
▪ Her unnecessary decision to do the dirtiest work in the place struck them as alarming.
do/work wonders
▪ A long weekend away from work will do wonders for your peace of mind.
▪ A very little bit of sugar works wonders for dishes that are based on sour tastes.
▪ And the visit of a white lady from afar will do wonders for his reputation!
▪ Failing that, lectures don't seem to work but subtle, unspoken signs can work wonders.
▪ It does wonders for the individual, and it brings families together.
▪ Special teaching and therapy, plenty of encouragement and stimulation can work wonders.
▪ This will work wonders in terms of future sales.
▪ Time also has worked wonders, pruning many of the bad investigative reporters and retaining many of the good ones.
flexible/short-time etc working
▪ An outside problem can sometimes be helped by, say, more flexible working hours and so be resolved at management level.
▪ Earnings might vary because of piece-work, overtime or short-time working.
▪ Flexible Hours Question: Has consideration been given to the introduction of flexible working hours?
▪ Meanwhile, solicitors were last week urged to consider flexible working for staff in line with the government's family friendly policies.
▪ Recruitment procedures focus on individual skills and potential for flexible working.
▪ Through grants to local authorities, we are financing schemes to introduce more flexible working practices - such as job sharing.
▪ Vauxhall bosses admit that the threat of short-time working at Ellesmere Port still remains a possibility.
▪ Wage freezes have been brought in across most of the company and some short-time working introduced.
gainful employment/work/activity
▪ Both surveys showed that for many people poverty was a way of life even when they were in gainful employment.
▪ How does he survive without gainful employment?
▪ In each decade of the twentieth century, fewer men over 65 have been entered in the censuses as in gainful employment.
▪ Indeed, it has even become fashionable for women to choose dependency by repudiating ambition and gainful employment once they have children.
▪ It occurred to him that it might be easier to find gainful employment in Cornwall.
▪ Some of us actually have gainful employment.
▪ The potential for a recession across most regions of the world will have ramifications for the prospects of expatriates in gainful employment.
▪ When in low spirits, seek gainful employment.
good works
investigative journalism/report/work
▪ Among them are hundreds of university journalism professors who routinely offer courses in investigative reporting at their schools.
▪ Categories are feature writing, investigative reporting, community service, commentary, photography, international reporting and pioneer.
▪ However, 11 different modes of assessment were noted, including mental, practical, calculator, project and investigative work.
▪ It's very easy to organise some investigative work by children on school meals provision.
▪ Perhaps I should take up this investigative journalism.
▪ Some 600 Boston University journalism students had braved a rainy Friday night in 1976 to hear a panel discussion on investigative reporting.
▪ The team felt it important to extend the evaluation to all investigative work.
▪ With ratings down, however, the show last fall refocused on investigative reporting and celebrity interviews and stopped paying for stories.
job of work
▪ From then on it was just a job of work to be done.
▪ He had an enjoyable job of work waiting for him, and asked for no more than that.
▪ In that sense, it is like any other job of work, or like being any parent.
▪ Then he would put his quill pens aside and consider an honest job of work.
▪ This is a two-man job of work since you need one to hold the ferret securely while the other ties the knots.
▪ You should treat it as a straight forward job of work and get on with it.
learned books/works etc
look/work a treat
▪ As usual, she looked a treat.
▪ Don't he look a treat!
▪ I bet it works a treat.
▪ I must say, Gwen, your garden looks a treat.
▪ I repeated a few times, and it worked a treat - on a window as well.
▪ It's another first-rate conversion that works a treat on the Game Gear.
▪ Much funnier than Tarzan or Hercules, this works a treat because the hero, Emperor Kuzco, is an anti-hero.
make hard work of sth
▪ She was making hard work of plucking the goose.
▪ You can make hard work of an easy job if you don't know the right way to go.
make light work of sth
▪ But she made light work of polishing off the shopping at a supermarket near her West London home.
▪ It makes light work of a complex process thanks to a series of easy-to-use wizards.
▪ Or making light work of the Mall in London.
▪ Willie Thorne made light work of the promising Nottinghamshire youngster, Anthony Hamilton, as he eased into the last 16.
make short work of (doing) sth
▪ Carmen would have made short work of Michael too.
▪ Fourth placed Guisborough made short work of the opposition at Saltburn.
▪ Guernsey made short work of the opposition when they won the event on home soil in 1990.
▪ He made short work of the remainder of his lunch, pushed his chair from the table, and stood up.
▪ It is fair to warn anglers that thousands of crabs soon make short work of rag and lugworm.
▪ It made short work of our Windows performance tests, WinTach, clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3.
▪ The second game we pull away early and make short work of it.
▪ These cannibalistic tadpoles make short work of one of their siblings.
nice work if you can get it
not do a stroke (of work)
put/throw a spanner in the works
race/work/battle against time
▪ But his parents are faced with a desperate race against time to raise the money necessary for his treatment.
▪ For the cartoonists, it's a daily battle against time, to create work that captures the imagination.
▪ However, with the contract negotiations starting, Lipton and others know that they are fighting a battle against time.
▪ It is a race against time.
▪ It looks as if my whole life is a race against time.
▪ Now it is a race against time to rebuild it before high spring ties later this month.
▪ The picture which became the cover shot, of the Rollright Stones, was a particular race against time.
▪ They face a race against time as fears grow over the health of the whales and the possibility of their becoming beached.
steady job/work/income
▪ A steady income stream is required to meet the costs of the syndicated lending department.
▪ And we receive a steady income from interest on Third World debts.
▪ He appears to have given up steady work.
▪ I wish he had taken up some steady work.
▪ Maybe you are heading toward retirement and therefore need investments that can provide you with a steady income.
▪ Sethe was laughing; he had a promise of steady work, 124 was cleared up from spirits.
▪ She chooses whatever is available, probably a slightly older man with no more money but a steady job.
▪ The only ones with a steady income were teachers, storekeepers and local officials.
take pride in your work/appearance etc
▪ And taking Pride in their work ... behind the scenes of a top drama.
▪ He takes pride in his appearance, setting a high standard to exemplify his healthy leadership style.
▪ I take pride in my work-particularly my work as a health educator.
▪ In fact, a set of beautifully manicured nails is a sign of a woman who takes pride in her appearance.
▪ Muriel took pride in their appearance and tried to forget Stephen's late night and Lily's missing days.
▪ The croft cottage was small, only two rooms, but she took pride in her work.
▪ You have to take pride in your work.
the devil makes/finds work for idle hands
voluntary work/service etc
▪ A larger number still provide a wide range of formal and informal voluntary services.
▪ A recent Gallup poll found that 98m adults are involved in voluntary service, a 23% increase in two years.
▪ An alternative to clubs and classes is voluntary work.
▪ But people without a job who have found fulfilling voluntary work or an absorbing hobby also score highly.
▪ Morley took up her evenings but daytime was given to voluntary work.
▪ Several had written books and articles and others were involved in voluntary work.
▪ Use the expertise and facilities of your local authorities and voluntary services for practical help, advice and social activities.
▪ We have a great tradition of voluntary services and charitable giving.
work experience
▪ Applicability Intensive school-to-work experiences, such as apprenticeships, are not for every student.
▪ At Level One the student will contribute to the planning and arrangement of work experience.
▪ Her work experience has been various, including that of Director of an environmental research institute.
▪ In 1984 the Institute published its first work experience guidelines for the training of students.
▪ It would emphasize learning in the context of work-not just work experience.
▪ Knowledge of management principles and practices, gained through work experience and formal education, is important.
▪ She also spent time shadowing health-care professionals and getting hands-on work experience.
▪ The view that they lack work experience is contradicted by a substantial body of evidence.
work like a Trojan
work like a charm
▪ Our new accounting system works like a charm.
▪ A slap on the hand or the behind works like a charm for one parent-child combination.
▪ But let me first applaud the coupling: it works like a charm.
▪ However, the schmaltzy parts, near the end, work like a charm.
▪ This time, the setup worked like a charm.
work like magic
▪ I first borrowed a bottle from work and it works like magic.
▪ The new layout and office furniture worked like magic.
work unsocial hours
work/drive/run yourself into the ground
▪ But don't drive yourself into the ground.
▪ I've already explained to you how I've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview.
▪ I tried working myself into the ground, but I could be totally exhausted and still remember.
▪ Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal.
▪ They ran themselves into the ground, ran Chesterfield off the pitch, but they couldn't get another goal.
work/effort etc involved in doing sth
▪ A further disadvantage is the work involved in returning the manure to the field.
▪ It is also often used to pay for the preliminary work involved in making applications for civil and criminal legal aid.
▪ She would like to know their reaction to the work involved in taking the course. 14.
▪ The chief drawback to small-scale silage-making is the extra physical work involved in handling the green crop with its high water content.
▪ The effort involved in constructing such circles was enormous.
▪ The work involved in writing this summation must have been back-breaking, and certainly took years of research.
▪ We have to do the more general piece of work involved in clearing one more bias from our morality.
work/munch/smoke etc your way through sth
▪ Environmentalists have warned that dioxins accumulate in fat and milk and will work their way through the food chain.
▪ He's probably smoking his way through your deposit.
▪ He had even tried starting at page 1 and working his way through to the end.
▪ He worked his way through a bag of sandwiches and four cans of Pepsi.
▪ He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.
▪ Tom, like most of the others, will need lots of reinforcement as he works his way through the change.
▪ We are attempting to work our way through all these questions.
▪ You could sense the passage of time working its way through the foundation.
work/perform miracles
▪ We're relying on Foster performing miracles out on the football field today.
▪ A hired hand who worked miracles and shared what little he had with those few who were less fortunate.
▪ And she has already been known, you tell me, to work miracles.
▪ Cloughie has performed miracles with limited resources at his disposal.
▪ Even if animosity worked miracles in bringing about good grades, would it be worth it?
▪ If he can work miracles in me, you have no problem.
▪ People actually believe he performs miracles.
▪ Whereas for me she works miracles.
▪ Why should anyone mind a person working miracles?
work/play etc your butt off
▪ He took a beating today but he played his butt off.
▪ I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.
▪ I work my butt off for you, while that restaurant is doing worse and worse.
▪ I worked my butt off in basketball and stayed on the varsity-in fact, did well.
▪ In short, I worked my butt off.
▪ Meanwhile, Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs.
▪ You could have worked your butt off helping a rep and you finally got the rep doing everything right.
work/run/go like stink
work/sweat your guts out
work/weave your magic
▪ Across the country, says Fitness magazine, enterprising and agile therapists are working their magic on patients while running alongside them.
▪ Biemiller referred the congressman to this doctor, who again worked his magic.
▪ But now the two men have changed places, and the boat has worked its magic.
▪ Charles was one such, and he invited her to Highgrove to work her magic.
▪ He said his name was Christmas and he had worked his magic act in theatres and royal palaces all over the world.
▪ Morley weaves its magic only by using a hedge fund to protect the assets of shareholders.
▪ Paris works its magic on me.
▪ Two others have medical problems that have to be corrected before he can work his magic.
working breakfast/lunch/dinner
▪ Gannon explained recently during a working lunch downtown.
▪ He has working lunches with his team to discuss and develop their approach to managing people for profit.
▪ The afternoon rehearsal started late because Meredith was at a working lunch in Rose's office.
▪ The real business gets done at working lunches and small dinner parties.
▪ You might then have a working dinner with a business speaker.
working clothes
▪ As he approached them, Mungo could see that they wore blue uniform trousers under their working clothes.
▪ But she had to turn up at Maggie's school in her working clothes.
▪ In fact I felt rather a lout in my working clothes among the elegant gathering.
▪ Jonadab was not to be hurried and methodically finished changing into his working clothes before putting in an appearance.
▪ Still clad in her tattered working clothes, her wellingtons pumped away assiduously to give the instrument the breath it required.
▪ They went from the workplace into the canteen, they sat and opened their lunchboxes in their working clothes.
▪ They woke on Sunday morning and people wre going to church ... they daren't be seen in their working clothes.
working conditions/environment etc
▪ Complete the following exercise on working conditions.
▪ For many people real wages fell and working conditions worsened.
▪ Her interest in socialism or Bryant & May working conditions was perfunctory.
▪ Protected by their enormous allowances and comfortable working conditions, they feel free to carry on behaving how they wish.
▪ The working environment is conducive to the achievement of excellence and the work is intellectually challenging.
▪ This made working conditions most unpleasant, the nets becoming wet and heavy to handle.
▪ Unhappy with the working environment, she decided to quit the job to pursue her interest in alternative therapy.
working day
▪ A massive 3,324, working days were lost because of depressive illnesses between and in Northern Ireland alone.
▪ Additional reports e.g. showing approved entries and responsible lexicographer, will be produced within one working day when required.
▪ As if to signal that the working day was about to begin, the telephone rang.
▪ In many areas the Hearing is held on the first working day after the removal of the child.
▪ Since the scheme was introduced, only motorists with special passes are allowed to use Ipswich Street during the working day.
▪ They proceed not to turn up on Monday, the next working day.
▪ This downward trend was so significant during this period that the average working day fell by around 1 hour.
working definition/theory/title
▪ A pragmatist judge will find room in his working theory of as if legal rights for some doctrine of precedent.
▪ A useful working definition has been provided by the Department of Trade and Industry in Britain.
▪ As a working theory this is impregnable, whether considered sceptically or superstitiously.
▪ Despite the difficulties, the teacher needs a rough working definition.
▪ Is that a reasonable working definition of Paradise?
▪ Like I say, it's just a working title.
▪ The Household of Faith was Brideshead's working title.
▪ We can, however, offer a very general working definition, which seems to feature in most discussions.
working hours/day/week
▪ Apparently, too, Rosie enjoyed herself after working hours.
▪ At the end of the working day most of us retreat to families and/or partners and play other parts.
▪ Items must be posted at post office counters in advance of latest recommended posting times for next working day delivery.
▪ Remember, your spouse may not be used to having you home during working hours.
▪ The whole operation was based on 50 journeys or rounds, one for each vehicle on every working day of the week.
▪ These, as we now know, involve everything from environmental considerations to limits on the working hours of employees.
▪ They had only three working days in which to prepare the defence against the new charge.
▪ They took long lunches and went to barbershops, beauty parlors, bathhouses, and tearooms during working hours.
working life
▪ Both procedures reflect current government policy concerns with increasing vocationalism and preparation for working life at the pre-16 stage.
▪ But all teachers are concerned about their own level of stress, and how to lead a satisfying working life.
▪ Deborah Manley trained as a social worker but has spent most of her working life in publishing.
▪ Objectives for Care outlines practical applications for nurses to use in their everyday working lives.
▪ The noise, the abuse, the grimness are everyday parts of their working life.
▪ They could anticipate earning a decent, middle-class wage there for most of their working lives.
▪ What do I want out of my working life?
▪ Your working life can go back as far as April 1936, but not further.
working majority
▪ However, a second election took place in September of that year, which gave him a pathetic working majority of four.
▪ None gave the Tories a hope of being elected with a working majority.
▪ Since then, Labour has never won a secure working majority at any election.
▪ The working majority achieved by the Conservatives removed that worry.
▪ The debate was acrimonious, with opposition parties denouncing Shamir's deals with defectors from other parties to win his working majority.
▪ Together the four parties had 191 seats, a working majority of 11.
▪ With the support of various independents, they gave the General a solid working majority.
▪ Without its support the coalition will not have a working majority in parliament.
working memory
▪ From that, you might be able to reconstitute the activity present during working memory.
▪ If this were the case there would be no need for a working memory.
▪ It is not clear whether this articulation makes use of the working memory system or is independent.
▪ Studies of working memory in animals may seem to be rather remote from the standard, acquired distinctiveness procedure.
▪ The speech left provides for an internal speech code which passes through a working memory system where it can be examined.
▪ The system is then being driven by working memory.
▪ Unless we attend to the words which have been placed into working memory, they will not be retained.
working model
▪ Behind him on a finely carved desk was a gleaming working model of the St Petersburg-Cannes Express constructed in pearls and amethysts.
▪ For 300 years or more our science has omitted any human attributes that may impinge upon or impede its mechanistic working model.
▪ My aim was always to build working models that I could control.
▪ Simulation techniques have been developed to allow scientists and planners to build working models of the systems which they are studying.
▪ The Base was a closed system, like a tiny working model of Earth itself, recycling all the chemicals of life.
▪ When I was about four years of age, he made a working model roundabout with galloping horses.
working parts
▪ He had, Edouard saw, a technical mind, and loved to see how working parts fitted together.
▪ It still retains all its working parts and would require only minimum repairs to put it into full working order.
▪ The working parts of a digital watch.
▪ The neo-biological approach is to assemble software from working parts, while continuously testing and correcting the software as it grows.
▪ They do not, at least by biological standards, have intricate working parts.
working practices/methods
▪ But it will coincide with political pressure for doctors to accept fundamental changes in their working practices.
▪ However, only 44% had changed their working practices.
▪ New working practices would be introduced once passenger services were privatised which would be more flexible.
▪ The accident happened because of a culture in which working practices were not checked, Whitehaven magistrates heard.
▪ The courses, examinations and working practices have been based on their perceptions.
▪ Their work allowed them to identify working methods and the characteristics of particular ateliers.
▪ Those familiar with the work and working methods of Frank Auerbach may find all this oddly familiar.
working relationship
▪ And yet the effective auditor needs to understand management and to have a close working relationship with the managers.
▪ Are working relationships defined and public?
▪ It is these processes which provide the principles for staff management and enhance the quality of working relationships within the organisation.
▪ Many observers expect Hutchison to endorse Dole because of her working relationship with the Senate majority leader.
▪ Relationship building with fellow-workers Your most important working relationship is with your immediate superior.
▪ The assessment panels have contributed to a better working relationship between guidance staff and other members of staff.
▪ This strategic transition required many people throughout the company to change specific skills, behaviors, and working relationships.
working stiff
▪ He was rising in the world, a celebrated hijacker, and Charlie was a working stiff with money problems.
▪ Instead of working stiffs, we get craftsmen.
▪ My dad was a poor working stiff.
▪ They're ordinary working stiffs, doing their job.
▪ This was my first residence as a working stiff.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "I can't open the jar." "Try putting it in hot water. That sometimes works."
▪ an organization that is working to preserve California's redwood trees
▪ Are you prepared to work longer hours occasionally, to get the work done?
▪ Does anyone here know how to work this microwave?
▪ Does the old tape recorder still work?
▪ Does the TV work?
▪ Five mornings a week, she worked on campus.
▪ For nineteen years, my father worked for the General Electric Corporation.
▪ Four teachers agreed to work without pay until things were settled.
▪ Frank's been working here for 32 years.
▪ He's changed his job and is now working as a consultant for a German firm.
▪ He only works three days a week now.
▪ Her father was an artist who sometimes worked as a salesman and labourer.
▪ His illness eventually prevented him from working.
▪ I'd never worked in a lab before I came here.
▪ I've been working all day in the garden.
▪ I've tried several different diets, but none of them seem to work.
▪ I bought a bottle of stain remover, and it worked like magic.
▪ I have no idea how to work these new phones.
▪ I have to work on Saturday too.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even where reform has been radical, it has not always worked.
▪ It is the people who work in the institutions who are most exposed to our dislike.
▪ MacArthur says that the husband alone should work outside the home.
▪ Not all cancer patients prefer to continue working while undergoing treatment.
▪ The research represents the second stage of cross-national collaborative studies undertaken by colleagues working in education in a number of countries.
▪ Voice over 16 officers are still working on the case full time.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ Pitts discusses the early work, giving it much wider play than it receives in any of the previous books.
▪ While nowhere near as impressive or effective as their earlier work, this is certainly nothing to be ashamed of.
▪ Studies of early school-to-work initiatives found that absent changes in schools, students' grades and attendance did not improve.
▪ It was, however, the dominant theory driving some of the earlier experimental work on arousal and memory.
▪ Piaget s system for conceptualizing intellectual development was greatly influenced by his early training and work as a biologist.
▪ To criticise earlier work. 7.
▪ Various investigators, also referred to in our earlier work, have put such a myth to rest.
hard
▪ He especially thanked for years of hard work, and this was received with strong acclamation.
▪ At the University of Houston, they remember her capacity for hard work and her flaming red hair.
▪ It is quite clear that the hard work put into it by coach Gerry Murphy is beginning to pay off.
▪ Obviously, hard work is needed-any new business will require more work rather than less.
▪ The account produced after the events obscured the hard work, stress and frustration that made them happen.
▪ Since success is dependent upon hard work, the amount of effort given needs to be evaluated.
▪ I found it very hard work.
▪ The Olympian still projects an ideal of hard work, physical stamina, mental fortitude, competition for the sake of competition.
paid
▪ Here was work, paid work, weeks of it, and Ted was delighted to do it.
▪ Both men and women must also look for paid work and many have been forced to migrate into the cities.
▪ Having hit a bad patch, financially, I decided I must try for some paid work with my knitting machine.
▪ Is she to give up being a housewife, put the children in a day-care centre and take paid work?
▪ What we do not yet know is how women's changing opportunities for paid work have affected their relative risk of poverty.
▪ The addition of paid work to the housewife's activities does not mean she is no longer a housewife.
▪ This means that in aggregate man-hours of paid work still outnumbered woman-hours by about two to one.
▪ As a by-product, with the experience gained they are now in a strong position to enter paid advice work.
social
▪ But where could social workers obtain skills which would qualify them to teach social work?
▪ The best and the brightest women of the time were going into social work.
▪ This says much about the worthwhile underlying values of social work and provides grounds for hope.
▪ Many support activities utilized traditional social work skills and were indistinguishable from much social work practice.
▪ Through the incorporation of these two strands of thinking Lewis believes social group work can be re-nourished.
▪ But Hearn also has extensive social work experience, especially in the area of child care.
▪ Within social work the quest continued for the best way to organize a service that could be responsive to community need.
▪ Short-term social work methods: crisis intervention, task-centred and contractual approaches. 4.
■ NOUN
experience
▪ They are designed to give those not wishing to continue full-time education the chance to gain work experience, training and education.
▪ These go beyond his two decades of work experience.
▪ Her work experience has been various, including that of Director of an environmental research institute.
▪ She also spent time shadowing health-care professionals and getting hands-on work experience.
▪ Many TECs explain graphically that they have inadequate money and that employers are offering too few work experience places because of the recession.
▪ In general, work experience historically has been the least well developed component of career academies.
▪ Indeed, very few employers are willing to provide work experience instead of full employment.
▪ Applicability Intensive school-to-work experiences, such as apprenticeships, are not for every student.
force
▪ Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers.
▪ In the 19905, I believe that about half of the work force will use computer terminals each day.
▪ Even now, sugar employs one-seventh of the work force, putting tourism in the shade.
▪ Ideas are everything in a fragmented global marketplace, and great ideas demand a diverse work force.
▪ Foreign manufacturers have preferred to invest in states where the work force is more skilled and the infrastructure is better.
▪ The direct labor work force is up by 60 percent over 1985 levels.
▪ One of the most productive, competitively priced work forces in the nation.
▪ That manifested itself in a lack of motivation and commitment in the work force.
group
▪ But the conventional longwall work organisation fails to build these tacit skills into the work groups.
▪ He was ordered to keep increasingly detailed records about how much each living unit and each work group produced.
▪ In formal work groups, the structuring process is affected by the hierarchy of authority and the managerial behaviour of the boss.
▪ The work group can influence the decision made concerning work activities and their purposes.
▪ By this means, the work group was given autonomy, self-regulation, multi-skilled roles and a complete task to perform.
▪ These employees are paid based upon what they produce either individually or as members of small work groups.
▪ Extra pairs of hands for supervision of small work group?
▪ And most ominously, it often has the effect of crippling the performance of formerly productive work groups.
■ VERB
begin
▪ The main figure in the story is Konrad Lorenz, who began his work on animal behaviour in about 1930.
▪ Many others who have begun volunteer work for the first time say something similar.
▪ It is not surprising that a high proportion of patients burst into tears as soon as the physiotherapist begins work.
▪ They began their work against the Celtics at 7: 30.
▪ I began work on the big glass on 27 July 1967, wrote Harsnet.
▪ There was even a little time for Alvin to begin work on Ariadne for the Harkness, to be performed in Paris.
▪ The Office for Standards in Education will begin work early in the new year for next summer's exams.
▪ When I began work, I simply added psychotherapy to the medical treatment.
carry
▪ Consideration should be given to the background of prospective clients and their motives for requiring us to carry out the work.
▪ Since his death, his wife and children have carried on the work.
▪ Project staff will help you to apply for the available grants and carry out practical work.
▪ He carried out some work in the labyrinths beneath central Moscow and partly beneath the Kremlin.
▪ They prove how fast selection can carry out its baleful work as soon as it gets the chance.
▪ Mr Kennedy said there was no legal requirement on the council to carry out sound-proofing work or provide grants.
▪ Since his tragic death my daughter has carried on his good work.
▪ The Society are now seeking a skilled modeller to carry out this work and have undertaken to bear the costs involved.
complete
▪ The union chiefs were urging workers at the Tyne yard to fight to complete work on three frigates being built there.
▪ Later this year, she will complete work on her next album, to be released in March 1997.
▪ That completes the work for this month.
▪ In many cases, the artist wants the viewer to complete the work.
▪ The Trust aims to complete work on all 125 miles of designated paths over the next four years.
▪ There by himself in this ideal setting, he sat-not making a sound and never completing his work.
▪ I had to be carted off to hospital, so I didn't manage to complete the work until the new year.
do
▪ It is characteristic of Sinclair to attempt to do the critic's work for him.
▪ We thank you for the peace of this village and for your grace to do the work that lies ahead.
▪ By rights, it should be called Erica, after Eric the Red, who did the work five hundred years earlier.
▪ No enduring stars did their best work under any of his logos.
▪ Came here to do some freelance work.
▪ But it looks like he did his best work the day he fired for qualification.
▪ Now his teacher needed to use this relationship to help Dan do his work.
▪ Teams, not hierarchies, do the real work.
involve
▪ But there was no suggestion that Gray had been involved in anything improper and Jefferson continued to be involved in youth work.
▪ Here, some became involved in simple agricultural work.
▪ Boraston was so much involved in war work that his assistant.
▪ Even worse, only one in four wants to get more involved in pro bono work.
▪ The sappers who had been involved in the preparation work could then go forward to see the devastation caused by the explosives.
▪ Companies involved in public works naturally are sitting up and taking notice of Caltrans' announcement last week.
▪ Several had written books and articles and others were involved in voluntary work.
▪ All of this involves a lot of work, and not just for the children!
publish
▪ In 1877 he published his best-known work, How to Draw a Straight Line.
▪ The published works give one a chance to assess the audiences with whom the author attempts to share information.
▪ At this moment, groups of people are getting together to publish their own work.
▪ Although she has written two novels, the autobiography is her first published work.
▪ Alternative and supplementary schedules were published for conservation work and for community architecture services.
▪ More than half the employees of the publishing company do volunteer work through its Community Connection Program.
▪ Basic Books published serious works on politics, public policy and philosophy.
start
▪ If you start with the harder work, those rabbits that are not killed will move into the smaller systems.
▪ I started work at WaldChem, I took everything I could get.
▪ The delay in starting rescue work has had one welcome effect.
▪ Beginning public accountants usually start by assisting with work for several clients.
▪ Just like the other doctors, it has scrubbed up and donned a protective gown before starting work in Sacramento, California.
▪ Trial by fire Pam Drayson started her work as director of the library only three days ago.
▪ He was too depressed to start work on the grave again.
▪ He decided to try to see Chris while he was still free during the day before starting work.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(come/work etc) under the umbrella of sth
▪ A whole range of behaviour is subsumed under the umbrella of bureaucratic self-interest.
▪ Finally, war served to bring all members of a society, soldier and civilian, under the umbrella of national consciousness.
▪ Governments also use the more industrially orientated labs under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer society.
(in) working order
▪ Controllers regained contact with the satellite after three anxious hours, and discovered that it appeared to be in full working order.
▪ Every lock in the house is in perfect working order.
▪ Hall of Power - a range of engines and heavy machinery, most of which are in working order and operated daily.
▪ Oxygen, suction and emergency equipment must be at hand and in working order. 2.
▪ The tenant need not pay rent until the business premises are put back in working order again.
▪ There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order.
▪ These older tankers require continuous maintenance to keep them in good, safe working order at sea.
▪ You did have to keep it clean and in good working order.
a nasty piece of work
▪ Cyril and Wyatt had gone around together with that other boy, that Donald, who was a nasty piece of work.
▪ You'd best steer clear of him, Manderley, he's a nasty piece of work.
a working knowledge of sth
▪ Andy has a good working knowledge of accounting practices.
▪ Ideally, you will have a degree in engineering or science with a working knowledge of heat transfer mechanisms.
▪ In this case, having a working knowledge of the types of microcomputer available will be important.
▪ Lambert was himself a skilled administrator, with a working knowledge of sanitary reform.
▪ Those who supervise clerical supervisors must have a working knowledge of word processing, communications, data processing, and recordkeeping.
be a (real) piece of work
be all in a day's work
be hard at it/work
▪ Ahead of her, Bite the Bullet's jockey was hard at work while the horse on his outside was clearly beaten.
▪ Cook was making fresh cornbread rolls for breakfast and lesser mortals were hard at it with brooms and mops.
▪ He was hard at work on the translation of a play which had to be ready two days later.
▪ Not much is said, as each young person, and Bill, is hard at work at the task at hand.
▪ Over the road, Sylvia Brackley and daughter, Karen are hard at work on this year's crop.
▪ Thacker had set him a spot of overtime and he was hard at it in the mill.
▪ Today, all eight of the Van Andel and DeVos offspring are hard at work making this company better.
▪ When she was hard at work and on top of things her productivity was exceptional.
be in work mode/holiday mode etc
be up to your ears in work/debt/problems etc
bury yourself in your work/studies etc
close work
▪ Embroidery is very close work.
▪ A final recommendation of the consultants was a radical attempt to forge a closer working relationship between the board and staff members.
▪ Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work.
▪ He and Clinton have formed such a close working partnership that Kemp, as vice president, would like to emulate Gore.
▪ Microscopes can only be used for close work, telescopes for viewing objects from arm's length distance to infinity.
▪ One benefit, he said, is the closer working relationship between defense contractors and the Navy.
▪ Task lighting usually entails higher levels of illumination needed for reading and other close work.
collaborative effort/work/project etc
▪ But from the start, feature animation was a collaborative effort.
▪ Combined with virtual reality capabilities, the team can design its own ideal collaborative work space without the constraints of physical reality.
▪ One of the most powerful forms of learning to which I was exposed on my course was active collaborative work.
▪ Since their Nobel lectures describe one collaborative effort, I suggest that we listen to them without interruption.
▪ The activities would demand collaborative work, role allocation and sharing.
▪ The early deadline gave little time for meetings and collaborative effort, or a very considered response to the new timetabling arrangements.
▪ The project being proposed by the Commission would put up £450 million for collaborative work in computers and automation.
▪ When it came time for his second album, he decided to make it a collaborative effort.
collected works/poems/essays/edition
▪ Box sets collect music into greatest hits, anthologies, chronologies, complete collected works, best-of and worst-of packages.
▪ He took down a copy of Wordsworth's collected poems.
▪ His collected works, he said, probably fill four foot ten of shelf space.
▪ Its author Tom Holt began, if I remember right, by publishing his collected poems at the age of 12.
▪ Mr Zhivkov's 44-volume collected works has disappeared from Sofia's bookshops since he was removed.
▪ My collected works rendered the Horsehead Nebula, goofy space cruisers, robots, and Saturn.
▪ They were first printed by William Caxton in 1475; the collected works were first illustrated by William Thynne in 1532.
day-to-day work/business/life etc
▪ Also the day-to-day work of schools and the task of assessing pupils assumed a higher importance than the development of new curriculum.
▪ But since the arrival of Robins, he has taken a backseat role with day-to-day business being handled by the new chairman.
▪ Directors were given the exclusive right to manage the day-to-day business of the company.
▪ In our day-to-day lives, including day-to-day scientific lives, we have little need of such confirmed hypotheses.
▪ It also recognises that day-to-day business and executive authority is vested in line management.
▪ Justices, of course, are accustomed, as part of their day-to-day work, to assessing costs of comparatively small amounts.
▪ The problem arises because there is nothing in our day-to-day life to provide us with sufficient exercise.
▪ While with the Chargers for the past two years, McNeely oversaw the day-to-day business operations.
detective work
▪ It takes some detective work to trace the symptom back to its cause.
▪ Brilliant detective work with a little luck tossed in to catch the savvy killer.
▪ Drawn to the subject via a footnote, McKillop did some literary detective work to uncover Deeks's story.
▪ Finding the missing parts has been a lucky blending of good fortune and good detective work.
▪ In fact tying a pollution to its source can be a tricky piece of detective work.
▪ It takes a bit of detective work to trace the symptom back to the cause.
▪ Late one night, they ran into Ken Creese, one of two detectives working the case.
▪ Much slow and painstaking geological detective work is needed to make correlations such as these, but the results can be very valuable.
▪ So it would take more years of dogged detective work by a handful of investigators to connect the dots.
do sb's dirty work
▪ Tell Fran I'm not going to do her dirty work for her.
▪ Her unnecessary decision to do the dirtiest work in the place struck them as alarming.
do/work wonders
▪ A long weekend away from work will do wonders for your peace of mind.
▪ A very little bit of sugar works wonders for dishes that are based on sour tastes.
▪ And the visit of a white lady from afar will do wonders for his reputation!
▪ Failing that, lectures don't seem to work but subtle, unspoken signs can work wonders.
▪ It does wonders for the individual, and it brings families together.
▪ Special teaching and therapy, plenty of encouragement and stimulation can work wonders.
▪ This will work wonders in terms of future sales.
▪ Time also has worked wonders, pruning many of the bad investigative reporters and retaining many of the good ones.
gainful employment/work/activity
▪ Both surveys showed that for many people poverty was a way of life even when they were in gainful employment.
▪ How does he survive without gainful employment?
▪ In each decade of the twentieth century, fewer men over 65 have been entered in the censuses as in gainful employment.
▪ Indeed, it has even become fashionable for women to choose dependency by repudiating ambition and gainful employment once they have children.
▪ It occurred to him that it might be easier to find gainful employment in Cornwall.
▪ Some of us actually have gainful employment.
▪ The potential for a recession across most regions of the world will have ramifications for the prospects of expatriates in gainful employment.
▪ When in low spirits, seek gainful employment.
go to school/church/work etc
▪ And I was going to school.
▪ Dad, I want to go to school.
▪ Everyone says the space program is great, he goes to work on the space program.
▪ His Mum went to work this afternoon.
▪ I was too upset to go to school.
▪ Keith makes himself go to work.
▪ Phillips should have lost his eligibility for the year while continuing to just go to school.
▪ When he was told he must go to school, he said he would not.
good works
investigative journalism/report/work
▪ Among them are hundreds of university journalism professors who routinely offer courses in investigative reporting at their schools.
▪ Categories are feature writing, investigative reporting, community service, commentary, photography, international reporting and pioneer.
▪ However, 11 different modes of assessment were noted, including mental, practical, calculator, project and investigative work.
▪ It's very easy to organise some investigative work by children on school meals provision.
▪ Perhaps I should take up this investigative journalism.
▪ Some 600 Boston University journalism students had braved a rainy Friday night in 1976 to hear a panel discussion on investigative reporting.
▪ The team felt it important to extend the evaluation to all investigative work.
▪ With ratings down, however, the show last fall refocused on investigative reporting and celebrity interviews and stopped paying for stories.
job of work
▪ From then on it was just a job of work to be done.
▪ He had an enjoyable job of work waiting for him, and asked for no more than that.
▪ In that sense, it is like any other job of work, or like being any parent.
▪ Then he would put his quill pens aside and consider an honest job of work.
▪ This is a two-man job of work since you need one to hold the ferret securely while the other ties the knots.
▪ You should treat it as a straight forward job of work and get on with it.
learned books/works etc
make hard work of sth
▪ She was making hard work of plucking the goose.
▪ You can make hard work of an easy job if you don't know the right way to go.
make light work of sth
▪ But she made light work of polishing off the shopping at a supermarket near her West London home.
▪ It makes light work of a complex process thanks to a series of easy-to-use wizards.
▪ Or making light work of the Mall in London.
▪ Willie Thorne made light work of the promising Nottinghamshire youngster, Anthony Hamilton, as he eased into the last 16.
make short work of (doing) sth
▪ Carmen would have made short work of Michael too.
▪ Fourth placed Guisborough made short work of the opposition at Saltburn.
▪ Guernsey made short work of the opposition when they won the event on home soil in 1990.
▪ He made short work of the remainder of his lunch, pushed his chair from the table, and stood up.
▪ It is fair to warn anglers that thousands of crabs soon make short work of rag and lugworm.
▪ It made short work of our Windows performance tests, WinTach, clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3.
▪ The second game we pull away early and make short work of it.
▪ These cannibalistic tadpoles make short work of one of their siblings.
nice work if you can get it
not do a stroke (of work)
put/throw a spanner in the works
race/work/battle against time
▪ But his parents are faced with a desperate race against time to raise the money necessary for his treatment.
▪ For the cartoonists, it's a daily battle against time, to create work that captures the imagination.
▪ However, with the contract negotiations starting, Lipton and others know that they are fighting a battle against time.
▪ It is a race against time.
▪ It looks as if my whole life is a race against time.
▪ Now it is a race against time to rebuild it before high spring ties later this month.
▪ The picture which became the cover shot, of the Rollright Stones, was a particular race against time.
▪ They face a race against time as fears grow over the health of the whales and the possibility of their becoming beached.
steady job/work/income
▪ A steady income stream is required to meet the costs of the syndicated lending department.
▪ And we receive a steady income from interest on Third World debts.
▪ He appears to have given up steady work.
▪ I wish he had taken up some steady work.
▪ Maybe you are heading toward retirement and therefore need investments that can provide you with a steady income.
▪ Sethe was laughing; he had a promise of steady work, 124 was cleared up from spirits.
▪ She chooses whatever is available, probably a slightly older man with no more money but a steady job.
▪ The only ones with a steady income were teachers, storekeepers and local officials.
take pride in your work/appearance etc
▪ And taking Pride in their work ... behind the scenes of a top drama.
▪ He takes pride in his appearance, setting a high standard to exemplify his healthy leadership style.
▪ I take pride in my work-particularly my work as a health educator.
▪ In fact, a set of beautifully manicured nails is a sign of a woman who takes pride in her appearance.
▪ Muriel took pride in their appearance and tried to forget Stephen's late night and Lily's missing days.
▪ The croft cottage was small, only two rooms, but she took pride in her work.
▪ You have to take pride in your work.
the devil makes/finds work for idle hands
throw sb out of work/office etc
▪ Elections are invaluable, however, for providing the people with a peaceful way of throwing politicians out of office.
▪ Naturally, stock market crashes and recessions end up tossing businesses into bankruptcy court and throwing people out of work.
▪ Well, O. K. But throw him out of office in a rank-and-file election?
voluntary work/service etc
▪ A larger number still provide a wide range of formal and informal voluntary services.
▪ A recent Gallup poll found that 98m adults are involved in voluntary service, a 23% increase in two years.
▪ An alternative to clubs and classes is voluntary work.
▪ But people without a job who have found fulfilling voluntary work or an absorbing hobby also score highly.
▪ Morley took up her evenings but daytime was given to voluntary work.
▪ Several had written books and articles and others were involved in voluntary work.
▪ Use the expertise and facilities of your local authorities and voluntary services for practical help, advice and social activities.
▪ We have a great tradition of voluntary services and charitable giving.
work experience
▪ Applicability Intensive school-to-work experiences, such as apprenticeships, are not for every student.
▪ At Level One the student will contribute to the planning and arrangement of work experience.
▪ Her work experience has been various, including that of Director of an environmental research institute.
▪ In 1984 the Institute published its first work experience guidelines for the training of students.
▪ It would emphasize learning in the context of work-not just work experience.
▪ Knowledge of management principles and practices, gained through work experience and formal education, is important.
▪ She also spent time shadowing health-care professionals and getting hands-on work experience.
▪ The view that they lack work experience is contradicted by a substantial body of evidence.
work like a Trojan
work like a charm
▪ Our new accounting system works like a charm.
▪ A slap on the hand or the behind works like a charm for one parent-child combination.
▪ But let me first applaud the coupling: it works like a charm.
▪ However, the schmaltzy parts, near the end, work like a charm.
▪ This time, the setup worked like a charm.
work like magic
▪ I first borrowed a bottle from work and it works like magic.
▪ The new layout and office furniture worked like magic.
work unsocial hours
work/drive/run yourself into the ground
▪ But don't drive yourself into the ground.
▪ I've already explained to you how I've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview.
▪ I tried working myself into the ground, but I could be totally exhausted and still remember.
▪ Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal.
▪ They ran themselves into the ground, ran Chesterfield off the pitch, but they couldn't get another goal.
work/effort etc involved in doing sth
▪ A further disadvantage is the work involved in returning the manure to the field.
▪ It is also often used to pay for the preliminary work involved in making applications for civil and criminal legal aid.
▪ She would like to know their reaction to the work involved in taking the course. 14.
▪ The chief drawback to small-scale silage-making is the extra physical work involved in handling the green crop with its high water content.
▪ The effort involved in constructing such circles was enormous.
▪ The work involved in writing this summation must have been back-breaking, and certainly took years of research.
▪ We have to do the more general piece of work involved in clearing one more bias from our morality.
work/munch/smoke etc your way through sth
▪ Environmentalists have warned that dioxins accumulate in fat and milk and will work their way through the food chain.
▪ He's probably smoking his way through your deposit.
▪ He had even tried starting at page 1 and working his way through to the end.
▪ He worked his way through a bag of sandwiches and four cans of Pepsi.
▪ He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.
▪ Tom, like most of the others, will need lots of reinforcement as he works his way through the change.
▪ We are attempting to work our way through all these questions.
▪ You could sense the passage of time working its way through the foundation.
work/perform miracles
▪ We're relying on Foster performing miracles out on the football field today.
▪ A hired hand who worked miracles and shared what little he had with those few who were less fortunate.
▪ And she has already been known, you tell me, to work miracles.
▪ Cloughie has performed miracles with limited resources at his disposal.
▪ Even if animosity worked miracles in bringing about good grades, would it be worth it?
▪ If he can work miracles in me, you have no problem.
▪ People actually believe he performs miracles.
▪ Whereas for me she works miracles.
▪ Why should anyone mind a person working miracles?
work/play etc your butt off
▪ He took a beating today but he played his butt off.
▪ I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.
▪ I work my butt off for you, while that restaurant is doing worse and worse.
▪ I worked my butt off in basketball and stayed on the varsity-in fact, did well.
▪ In short, I worked my butt off.
▪ Meanwhile, Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs.
▪ You could have worked your butt off helping a rep and you finally got the rep doing everything right.
work/run/go like stink
work/sweat your guts out
work/weave your magic
▪ Across the country, says Fitness magazine, enterprising and agile therapists are working their magic on patients while running alongside them.
▪ Biemiller referred the congressman to this doctor, who again worked his magic.
▪ But now the two men have changed places, and the boat has worked its magic.
▪ Charles was one such, and he invited her to Highgrove to work her magic.
▪ He said his name was Christmas and he had worked his magic act in theatres and royal palaces all over the world.
▪ Morley weaves its magic only by using a hedge fund to protect the assets of shareholders.
▪ Paris works its magic on me.
▪ Two others have medical problems that have to be corrected before he can work his magic.
working breakfast/lunch/dinner
▪ Gannon explained recently during a working lunch downtown.
▪ He has working lunches with his team to discuss and develop their approach to managing people for profit.
▪ The afternoon rehearsal started late because Meredith was at a working lunch in Rose's office.
▪ The real business gets done at working lunches and small dinner parties.
▪ You might then have a working dinner with a business speaker.
working clothes
▪ As he approached them, Mungo could see that they wore blue uniform trousers under their working clothes.
▪ But she had to turn up at Maggie's school in her working clothes.
▪ In fact I felt rather a lout in my working clothes among the elegant gathering.
▪ Jonadab was not to be hurried and methodically finished changing into his working clothes before putting in an appearance.
▪ Still clad in her tattered working clothes, her wellingtons pumped away assiduously to give the instrument the breath it required.
▪ They went from the workplace into the canteen, they sat and opened their lunchboxes in their working clothes.
▪ They woke on Sunday morning and people wre going to church ... they daren't be seen in their working clothes.
working conditions/environment etc
▪ Complete the following exercise on working conditions.
▪ For many people real wages fell and working conditions worsened.
▪ Her interest in socialism or Bryant & May working conditions was perfunctory.
▪ Protected by their enormous allowances and comfortable working conditions, they feel free to carry on behaving how they wish.
▪ The working environment is conducive to the achievement of excellence and the work is intellectually challenging.
▪ This made working conditions most unpleasant, the nets becoming wet and heavy to handle.
▪ Unhappy with the working environment, she decided to quit the job to pursue her interest in alternative therapy.
working day
▪ A massive 3,324, working days were lost because of depressive illnesses between and in Northern Ireland alone.
▪ Additional reports e.g. showing approved entries and responsible lexicographer, will be produced within one working day when required.
▪ As if to signal that the working day was about to begin, the telephone rang.
▪ In many areas the Hearing is held on the first working day after the removal of the child.
▪ Since the scheme was introduced, only motorists with special passes are allowed to use Ipswich Street during the working day.
▪ They proceed not to turn up on Monday, the next working day.
▪ This downward trend was so significant during this period that the average working day fell by around 1 hour.
working definition/theory/title
▪ A pragmatist judge will find room in his working theory of as if legal rights for some doctrine of precedent.
▪ A useful working definition has been provided by the Department of Trade and Industry in Britain.
▪ As a working theory this is impregnable, whether considered sceptically or superstitiously.
▪ Despite the difficulties, the teacher needs a rough working definition.
▪ Is that a reasonable working definition of Paradise?
▪ Like I say, it's just a working title.
▪ The Household of Faith was Brideshead's working title.
▪ We can, however, offer a very general working definition, which seems to feature in most discussions.
working hours/day/week
▪ Apparently, too, Rosie enjoyed herself after working hours.
▪ At the end of the working day most of us retreat to families and/or partners and play other parts.
▪ Items must be posted at post office counters in advance of latest recommended posting times for next working day delivery.
▪ Remember, your spouse may not be used to having you home during working hours.
▪ The whole operation was based on 50 journeys or rounds, one for each vehicle on every working day of the week.
▪ These, as we now know, involve everything from environmental considerations to limits on the working hours of employees.
▪ They had only three working days in which to prepare the defence against the new charge.
▪ They took long lunches and went to barbershops, beauty parlors, bathhouses, and tearooms during working hours.
working life
▪ Both procedures reflect current government policy concerns with increasing vocationalism and preparation for working life at the pre-16 stage.
▪ But all teachers are concerned about their own level of stress, and how to lead a satisfying working life.
▪ Deborah Manley trained as a social worker but has spent most of her working life in publishing.
▪ Objectives for Care outlines practical applications for nurses to use in their everyday working lives.
▪ The noise, the abuse, the grimness are everyday parts of their working life.
▪ They could anticipate earning a decent, middle-class wage there for most of their working lives.
▪ What do I want out of my working life?
▪ Your working life can go back as far as April 1936, but not further.
working majority
▪ However, a second election took place in September of that year, which gave him a pathetic working majority of four.
▪ None gave the Tories a hope of being elected with a working majority.
▪ Since then, Labour has never won a secure working majority at any election.
▪ The working majority achieved by the Conservatives removed that worry.
▪ The debate was acrimonious, with opposition parties denouncing Shamir's deals with defectors from other parties to win his working majority.
▪ Together the four parties had 191 seats, a working majority of 11.
▪ With the support of various independents, they gave the General a solid working majority.
▪ Without its support the coalition will not have a working majority in parliament.
working memory
▪ From that, you might be able to reconstitute the activity present during working memory.
▪ If this were the case there would be no need for a working memory.
▪ It is not clear whether this articulation makes use of the working memory system or is independent.
▪ Studies of working memory in animals may seem to be rather remote from the standard, acquired distinctiveness procedure.
▪ The speech left provides for an internal speech code which passes through a working memory system where it can be examined.
▪ The system is then being driven by working memory.
▪ Unless we attend to the words which have been placed into working memory, they will not be retained.
working model
▪ Behind him on a finely carved desk was a gleaming working model of the St Petersburg-Cannes Express constructed in pearls and amethysts.
▪ For 300 years or more our science has omitted any human attributes that may impinge upon or impede its mechanistic working model.
▪ My aim was always to build working models that I could control.
▪ Simulation techniques have been developed to allow scientists and planners to build working models of the systems which they are studying.
▪ The Base was a closed system, like a tiny working model of Earth itself, recycling all the chemicals of life.
▪ When I was about four years of age, he made a working model roundabout with galloping horses.
working parts
▪ He had, Edouard saw, a technical mind, and loved to see how working parts fitted together.
▪ It still retains all its working parts and would require only minimum repairs to put it into full working order.
▪ The working parts of a digital watch.
▪ The neo-biological approach is to assemble software from working parts, while continuously testing and correcting the software as it grows.
▪ They do not, at least by biological standards, have intricate working parts.
working practices/methods
▪ But it will coincide with political pressure for doctors to accept fundamental changes in their working practices.
▪ However, only 44% had changed their working practices.
▪ New working practices would be introduced once passenger services were privatised which would be more flexible.
▪ The accident happened because of a culture in which working practices were not checked, Whitehaven magistrates heard.
▪ The courses, examinations and working practices have been based on their perceptions.
▪ Their work allowed them to identify working methods and the characteristics of particular ateliers.
▪ Those familiar with the work and working methods of Frank Auerbach may find all this oddly familiar.
working relationship
▪ And yet the effective auditor needs to understand management and to have a close working relationship with the managers.
▪ Are working relationships defined and public?
▪ It is these processes which provide the principles for staff management and enhance the quality of working relationships within the organisation.
▪ Many observers expect Hutchison to endorse Dole because of her working relationship with the Senate majority leader.
▪ Relationship building with fellow-workers Your most important working relationship is with your immediate superior.
▪ The assessment panels have contributed to a better working relationship between guidance staff and other members of staff.
▪ This strategic transition required many people throughout the company to change specific skills, behaviors, and working relationships.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 'Where's Dave?' 'He's outside, doing some work on the car, I think.'
▪ A considerable amount of work was necessary to establish even this basic framework.
▪ A major new work by one of Poland's leading film directors will be shown next Saturday.
▪ Alexander commutes 30 miles to work each day.
▪ Are you still involved in charity work?
▪ Being in the police isn't all action. Administration is a large part of the work we do.
▪ Could I ride with you to work tomorrow?
▪ David tries to avoid work at all times.
▪ Finally, I would like to thank all the staff for their hard work this year.
▪ Handel's "Messiah" is one of the most majestic musical works ever written.
▪ Have you ever done bar work before?
▪ He's doing construction work these days.
▪ He eventually found work as a labourer on a construction site.
▪ He liked the work, and he was good at it too.
▪ Her later works reflected her growing depression.
▪ Her mother tried to call her at home and then at work.
▪ His injuries have made it impossible for him to go back to work.
▪ His last few speeches had been awful, and he knew he had to put more work into them.
▪ How do you like your work?
▪ I'm not doing any more work on the house this year, I can't be bothered.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A quick change can be effected by using this additional experience to point to another type of work.
▪ An opportunity was afforded when the council supported El Universal in its uncomplimentary evaluation of the work of the early independence leaders.
▪ For this reason, parents are always welcome to see their children at work in our school.
▪ Rawls's work reaches somewhat different conclusions concerning justice and equality to that of Hayek.
▪ She is surrounded by books and papers; her desk piled high with correspondence relating to her work.
▪ Who says museum work doesn't pay?