Example sentences of "[noun] work at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His care for disabled children spans work at the orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry , Alder Hey Hospital , Liverpool , and through Riding for the Disabled .
2 A diplomat working at the military attaché 's office in Ankara , the Turkish capital , was seriously injured on Oct. 16 , 1989 , when a bomb exploded in his car .
3 The body of a young child works at the maximum rate , enabling the child to process far more information in a given time than an adult could .
4 All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office .
5 The UK had no direct representation in Tripoli , although two British officials worked at the Italian embassy to represent British interests .
6 They claimed to be grass cutters working at the nearby golf course .
7 Contrary to reports in Paris last week , government investigators working at the central police laboratory here have ruled out the presence of the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex , which caused the Lockerbie disaster .
8 Clearly there is so much ground to be covered , particularly on the engineering and operational sides , when a large transport aircraft is involved that you will need several investigators working at the same time .
9 Good presentation : dress standards of a person working at the highest levels of large corporations .
10 The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year .
11 One of our customers works at the Royal Mint .
12 A former executive officer with the civil service working at the National Engineering Laboratory , East Kilbride , she was now physically and mentally handicapped .
13 She paid him eight shillings — or 40p — a week to work at the 16-room house she had inherited .
14 It is here contended that this last group , forming a close network of interdependent and inter-communicating people working at the leading edge of science at a time of rapid personal and scientific development may be a highly significant unit for the establishment of contacts in later careers , and for the promulgation of paradigm shifts in science .
15 In the city he is just another casual labourer working at the lowest level of urban employment .
16 Although we know much about how genes work at the microscopic level , less is known about all the intermediate processes through which genes find expression in phenotypic characters at the macroscopic level of the whole animal .
17 At this time A. A. Griffith ( 1893–1963 ) was a young man working at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough .
18 And women worked in that department , whereas the men worked at the huge broadloom
19 But I mean it was a hell of a way to work at the same time .
20 Of course dad worked at the other pit , that was where he lived .
21 Dad worked at the local car factory .
22 The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen .
23 In 1971 Oleg Lyalin , a KGB officer working at the Russian trade mission in London , defected to MI6 and gave enough information about Russian espionage activities to justify the prime minister , Edward Heath , expelling an unprecedented 105 Russian diplomats from Britain .
24 Long Buckby had 131 men and boys working at the shoemaking craft in 1841 and no females ; ten years later numbers had risen to 273 males and 50 women and girls .
25 whatever fosters the growth of culture works at the same time against war .
26 Interferon is of course not a new discovery — it was first reported in 1957 by Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann working at the National Institute for Medical Research in London .
27 The project is supervised by researchers working at the Kansai Electronics Industry Promotion Centre .
28 The writer works at the impossible task of creating a poem , a narrative , which tries to narrow the gap between the signal and what is signalled : tries to reverse the separation between the world and what we write about the world .
29 Robyn worked at the pained expression and tried to decide what limb she should choose .
30 His family believe it was because his father , Phillip worked at the atomic weapons plant at Aldermaston .
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