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out + work 61BAWE corpus

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(1)

‎ the main ones being different peoples knowledge or techniques for carrying out

work. It is essential that everyone understands each other so the business can

 [Text 45 - Agriculture]

(2)

‎ the chosen people of God... For the general operations of manufacture, let out

work-shops remain in Europe." As Marx describes, early colonists wished to

 [Text 45 - Comparative American Studies]

(3)

‎low-level employees. The idea that workers could be self-motivated to carry out

work without close supervision is one argued by Rose (1997) cited in

 [Text 44 - HLTM]

(4)

‎own community through the giving of tribute. For example, the ayllu carried out

work on land belonging to the Inca in exchange for the giving of the right to

 [Text 54 - Comparative American Studies]

(5)

‎ upon a communal spirit of mutual aid. If a member was called away to carry out

work on behalf of the government, his share of land was cultivated by others in

 [Text 58 - Comparative American Studies]

(6)

‎epict an offer such as quotation, tender and estimate was an offer to carry out

work capable of acceptance and hence the formation of a binding contract.

 [Text 47 - Business]

(7)

‎ermined. Analytical analysis of the pumps performance is yet to be carried out. ‎

Work on this is scheduled for early 2006. Remaining Tasks Below is a summarised

 [Text 46 - Engineering]

(8)

‎that a large family was an innate advantage in terms of time taken to carry out

work dispute this notion. Such cooperation between producers suggests that the

 [Text 46 - Comparative American Studies]

(9)

‎position where they will be retiring soon, and the son will be returning to work on the farm from university in the next year. The farm is owned outright and the manager is working on the land as well as carrying out office

work. My final assumption is that the farm is in a financially secure situation

 [Text 55 - Agriculture]

(10)

‎ could be interpreted in many ways, the question was designed to find out about

work accomplishments but the interviewee could easily interpret the question

 [Text 44 - Health]

(11)

‎e required format. We then send the file to our printers who then print out the

work on the file, in this case, the pages for your book. Although Microsoft

 [Text 55 - Publishing]

(12)

‎s higher payment as possible from the SPS and therefore carry out environmental

work on the farm through entering the Entry Level Scheme and Higher level

 [Text 45 - Agriculture]

(13)

‎ is a different story. The richer women, would send out slaves to carry out the

work outside of the house so she would not have to. This was not the case for

 [Text 61 - Classics]

(14)

‎l has been wiped out and the Trust relies heavily on donations to carry out its

work. Rare Breed Farms are found in the UK and are essential in order to

 [Text 56 - Agriculture]

(15)

‎ charged to guarantee that the software is operational. Contracting out the work is deemed unnecessary as the risk involved is relatively low and the I.T Department is capable to carry out the

work. 4.3 Resistance from Operations Department staff Significance Identified

 [Text 45 - Business]

(16)

‎rogress. Weekly targeted meetings will be conducted with those carrying out the

work so that everyone knows the progress of project and the expectations.

 [Text 44 - Business]

(17)

‎ly alternative method on the farm as the workers will be carrying out practical

work most of the time so will be unable to regularly check emails or read

 [Text 54 - Agriculture]

(18)

‎s necessary to follow such an approach. If one desires to carry out comparative

work then difficulties in the empirical definition of each dimension means that

 [Text 45 - Sociology]

(19)

‎en the project is badly organised and, for example, they cannot carry out their

work through lack of resources or overcrowding due to bad organisation of

 [Text 45 - Engineering]

(20)

‎ciency model' (Mizen, 2003), which argued that the reason the young were out of

work was because they were restless in work, had no incentive to be there, or

 [Text 54 - Sociology]

(21)

‎. Ergonomic Quality: An effective design is one in which a user carries out the

work with minimal attention and maximal effectiveness. More learning time and

 [Text 45 - Computer Science]

(22)

‎grammer: An effective interaction design is one in which a user carries out his

work with minimal conscious attention to his tools and maximal effectiveness.

 [Text 45 - Computer Science]

(23)

‎sition to be informed otherwise, but are especially gullible and carry out hard

work without question most of the time. The relation between physical labour

 [Text 44 - English]

(24)

‎s essential, through good planning, that workers are allowed to carry out their

work without any avoidable hindrances. Other Methods of Increasing Motivation

 [Text 42 - Engineering]

(25)

‎t household duties traditionally done a by a housewife rather than going to work" Clearly women or more accurately wives do not do not home make instead of going out to

work. Their male counterparts, who do not have to married, have shunned their

 [Text 55 - Sociology]

(26)

‎en or more accurately wives do not do not home make instead of going out to work. Their male counterparts, who do not have to married, have shunned their responsibility of going out to

work, of being the "Breadwinner- a person who earns money to support their

 [Text 47 - Sociology]

(27)

‎ding the nature and causes of communication disorders. In carrying out clinical

work, linguistic knowledge is applied in identifying and assessing speech and

 [Text 42 - Linguistics]

(28)

‎g contract which itself contained a time penalty clause, to carry out carpentry

work in a block of flats for an agreed price of £20,000. The plaintiff then

 [Text 54 - Law]

(29)

‎security benefits and health services. The FN's slogan "A million people out of

work are a million immigrants too many" propagated the fear and apprehension

 [Text 45 - Other]

(30)

‎ hand it helps ensure greater freedom of mobility and the ability to go out and

work because it 'proves' a woman's chastity. The different voices that Seif El

 [Text 55 - Law]

(31)

‎nt covers payments to the consultants and contractors to carry out consultation

work, design and build the scheme. It does not cover the cost of the Council

 [Text 46 - Planning]

(32)

‎ and works for family's good not acquire a share, when the wife who goes out to

work does? If Denning's broad principle had been accepted, law could easily

 [Text 56 - Law]

(33)

‎r effort, sometimes we lagged behind time because not all of us carried out the

work like we were asked to. I found that as a deadline approaches the amount of

 [Text 56 - Engineering]

(34)

‎uld stay at home and look after the children whilst the men/fathers went out to

work. Women who did work did so mainly in jobs that were subsidiary to men and

 [Text 58 - Planning]

(35)

‎ic level. At the day-to-day level detailed plans covering specific areas of work are laid out by those carrying out specific

work, including HR staff, IT employees and the operations department employees. The nature of the review periods

 [Text 45 - Business]

(36)

‎e in charged to guarantee that the software is operational. Contracting out the

work is deemed unnecessary as the risk involved is relatively low and the I.T

 [Text 47 - Business]

(37)

‎evolution and Lenin's resolutions at the 1921 Party Congress stand out from his

work published after the revolution. In addition, his Letters From Afar, The

 [Text 45 - History]

(38)

‎on. 'It is necessary to give the party organs who carried out their ideological

work their due. They reacted quickly to the mood of the people." Stalin

 [Text 46 - History]

(39)

‎general. Strengths that can be built on: Sues enthusiasm to carry out part time

work. Sues increased enjoyment of activities with increased social

 [Text 42 - Health]

(40)

‎elist's personal state of mind at the time he was writing. He points out that a

work such as Pickwick Papers (1836-37) is the verbal expression of Dickens's

 [Text 55 - English]

(41)

‎genre, the two novels are quite different. As some critics pointed out, Defoe's

work gives an illusion of reality. Leslie Stephen argued that the novel was "in

 [Text 47 - English]

(42)

‎ved, has been achieved. Appraisal of the project should be carried out for each

work package (ensuring tighter control) and at the end of the project. The

 [Text 46 - Business]

(43)

‎al and trustworthy. Questions would also be included to find out about previous

work history and experience. After discussion, the group decided on some key

 [Text 44 - Health]

(44)

‎ultural directives prescribe that women should be able to carry out a full time

work pattern and be a full time mother at the same time, often referred to as

 [Text 55 - Sociology]

(45)

‎ade unions. 8. Project Team The team has divided the project into 5 various work packages. The package has been divided on the basis of different activities, which need to be carried out in the project. ‎

Work Breakdown Structure 8. Strategic control. The Operation Director will

 [Text 43 - Business]

(46)

‎ish to study how the various forms of leisure pursuits carried out on the Wolds

work alongside the livestock and whether the future of livestock on the Wolds

 [Text 47 - Agriculture]

(47)

‎an be obtained so that construction can be carried out safely and successfully. ‎

Work needs to be carried out to establish what factors are important in its

 [Text 46 - Engineering]

(48)

‎ be regulated by worldwide organisations that can reach out to those countries, ‎

work with their governments and implement stronger rules that prevent the

 [Text 43 - Agriculture]

(49)

‎eted the evidence in the convention of the day; although now out of print, this

work is still much in demand and invaluable during re-evaluation of the

 [Text 47 - Archaeology]

(50)

‎he passage from monarchy to republic'. However, the role carried out by David's

work encompassed more than a static reflection of the events associated with

 [Text 45 - History]

(51)

‎ore education than their husbands choose not to negotiate out of more household

work in order to protect their own gendered identities. (Davis and Greenstein,

 [Text 45 - Sociology]

(52)

‎eighing scales and a valve controls whether flow is allowed out of it. The pipe

work is set up so that the Reynolds number is at a transition stage somewhere

 [Text 55 - Engineering]

(53)

‎ Design argument. Hume's arguments were clearly laid out, with reference to his

work Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Objections raised by Swinburne,

 [Text 43 - Philosophy]

(54)

‎such as use the land for forestry or leisure, rent out buildings for leisure or

work, go into the agricultural inputs sector, or go in to the process and

 [Text 54 - Agriculture]

(55)

‎nces of the car Built environment based around car out of town shopping/leisure/‎

work - only accessible by car extensive road/motorway network - congestion and

 [Text 44 - Architecture]

(56)

‎ision of labour" (Braverman:1974:70) The 'putting out system' and early factory

work were all capitalist control methods. First controlling the product, then

 [Text 43 - Sociology]

(57)

‎s present, we are operating the business from home & carry out all of the field

work ourselves (consultations, installations & aftersale service) as we do not

 [Text 44 - Engineering]

(58)

‎s, business is sustained in Japan." This displays the hazy boundary between work and leisure as the men are out socializing but because of

work. It also highlights the dependency between the two elements- Work relies on leisure (like the

 [Text 47 - Anthropology]

(59)

‎ociety on the assumption that a person's success is borne out of their own hard

work and nothing more. However as Goodwin (1999, p.232) perceptively points out

 [Text 54 - Politics]

(60)

‎ and work/action need to be closely analyzed here. Ring pointed out that "The distinction between

work and labor centers upon what each activity produces, rather than the

 [Text 44 - Sociology]

(61)

‎s than I am. Can you show me how to load this programme onto my PC? I can't work it out. (To a colleague at

work) The FTA threatens the hearer's negative face by imposing a request on the hearer however positive politeness strategy enables

 [Text 47 - Linguistics]


Word associations

The following are the most common words to the right and left of work (maximum 10 words for each).

The following is a list of words associated to the left and right with work, as well as phrases with this word in the middle (minimum frequency 5).

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the work7
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