Example sentences of "[adv] work at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously there are certain key factors to any sort of reasonable living space : walls and ceiling will have to be decorated along with all the woodwork ; windows and floors have to be treated in some way ; there must be light both to see by and to enhance the space ; there should be something to sit on and probably to eat from and almost certainly somewhere to work at times . |
| 2 | He went on to work at Birmingham , Bristol and Luton , as he progressed to other jobs within the operations department . |
| 3 | He got down to work at once and even found another couple , both teachers , who wanted to ‘ settle up ’ in Church . |
| 4 | When we finish , there are the people who come in to work at night . |
| 5 | I 'm losing power on the straights , and the three of you had better work at it because I 've only got one more chance ! ’ |
| 6 | But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less . |
| 7 | He used to tell me I was going to fail but I did so much work at home it was my best subject . |
| 8 | She only worked at Pembroke Lodge for four weeks and I hardly set eyes on her . |
| 9 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 10 | Jean , with a friend , watched as the other woman apparently worked at clearing out belongings . |
| 11 | Whittaker , his chairman Geoff Mulcahy and late chairman John Beckett all worked at Tate 's rival , British Sugar , before taking over Kingfisher 10 years ago . |
| 12 | Pattern cutters , fitters , sewing hands and their assistants all worked at an incredible speed . |
| 13 | At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics . |
| 14 | Markets only work at the cost of perennial insecurity for producers . |
| 15 | So work at the digging . |
| 16 | Small points again , like accuracy of feeding when it is needed , become natural to them because they are constantly working at it . |
| 17 | The words written by Hinrich Medau in 1933 continue to guide our work today : ‘ The all-important inspiration of Medau work still remains the close connection between movement and music and we are constantly working at the deepening and widening of our knowledge in this as in other spheres ’ . |
| 18 | The foursome , who all work at the special care baby unit at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough , will be attending the world 's first conference on neo-natal care , held in Washington DC . |
| 19 | The department is slack at present with its five-strong workforce only working at 50% capacity . |
| 20 | Do not wait until it is clogged with fish waste and debris and therefore only working at a fraction of its efficiency . |
| 21 | The model only works at the level of the textbook example , the single isolated sentence . |
| 22 | This at least allows you to make the best of poor job ; a package which only works at the screen resolution could be a fifth the quality , or worse . |
| 23 | no she only works at nights and she was asking about nights for Carrie you see , cos I |
| 24 | An hour or so working at 150 feet is hard work . |
| 25 | To support himself and his wife , Edith , he daily gets up at 2.30am to work at Richmond bakery . |
| 26 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 27 | In 1989 , in a state with average AFDC payments , a single woman with two children who took a job at the minimum wage ( then $3.35 an hour ) would earn a paltry $33 more each month than if she did not work at all and stayed on welfare . |
| 28 | On the following day , the coal owners locked out those miners who would not work at lower rates of pay — of up to 49 per cent in the badly affected export area of South Wales — and attempted to suspend national agreements . |
| 29 | Mere are many ways in which governments and their supporters can prevent these methods from being effective , but they can not work at all if the opposition has no real procedural opportunity to apply real scrutiny , nor if its efforts do not arouse the media of information and public opinion . |
| 30 | Chains , studs or snow tyres do not work at all then . |