Example sentences of "work [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach she adopted in all her subsequent work thereby introducing a revolutionary style of attack on problems of algebra . |
| 2 | Yet most social workers find their work intensively bound up with families . |
| 3 | You must use your time at work effectively to meet ES business needs . |
| 4 | The general lack of compromise or provision for flexible or part-time work effectively chokes off the careers of many promising lawyers . |
| 5 | But in the 1920s £200 was a high price for a Matisse and even in the Thirties his work rarely made over £1000 . |
| 6 | The partners for the time being should not exclude the possibility of negotiation to take account of the particular circumstances of a partner 's departure , eg where to delay payment for his share could result in hardship for himself or his family , or where to insist on strict observance of restraint covenants might stand in the way of a young solicitor wishing to develop a specialised practice in a field of work rarely undertaken by the firm . |
| 7 | Contemporary artists favour a droit de suite with near unanimity , even though their work rarely finds a secondary market . |
| 8 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 9 | These practices range from the methods and resources used by the police in handling the various situations they encounter , to the interpretative processes or ‘ cognitive map ’ used in the practical reasoning which their work uniformly requires . |
| 10 | All the work eventually fell on Gavin shoulders . |
| 11 | This work eventually encountered various great technical difficulties which , it seems , could only be resolved by what most people have regarded as unsatisfactory expedients , and so that the , the system in many ways that he evolved as an answer to this programme has not been commonly held to be entirely satisfactory . |
| 12 | ‘ Part of my life 's work since has been to research this group of orchids and encourage their cultivation . |
| 13 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 14 | The work mostly took place in the first year base , which was described as : " a large hall and four small rooms each capable of taking a group of twenty . |
| 15 | This vast expanse of grass and heather is a cover concealing a realm of magic and mystery , where since the beginning of time nature has been at work slowly evolving an intricate subterranean labyrinth of caverns , grottoes and canals carved in beautiful designs by the agency of running water . |
| 16 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |
| 17 | It is placing an artificial , not to say architectonic , view on the whole work so to argue ; it is to take his ‘ mythology ’ too seriously , too literally ; to fail to see that the ‘ excess ’ was part of the message . |
| 18 | Sailing upwind is hard work so do n't waste effort by letting the mainsheet out . |
| 19 | How many times have hard-working men arrived home from work only to find that the house is upside down , furniture completely re-arranged and their favourite chair completely out of kilter with the best view of the TV ? |
| 20 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 21 | The relentless , time-consuming nature of his work literally asphyxiates the self-reflective side of his personality . |
| 22 | The central square , and its decoration , were absent when the mosaic was uncovered , but the borders as well as the kind and placement of motif in this work alone suggest affinities with the mosaics from North Hill and insula 34 , Colchester . |
| 23 | In a sense the development of figural work alone suggests strong parallels with the development of the general arrangements of mosaic . |
| 24 | Christie 's sale had a higher number of successes as well as the most expensive lot , Giuseppe de Nittis excellent ‘ At the races ’ , a work much influenced by the artist 's friend Degas . |
| 25 | Several forms of exploitation are indicated in these verses : forcing wages down under false pretences — for example by claiming that the market was weak — fining or " bating " for work wrongly declared underweight , and forcing workers to accept truck instead of due money wages . |
| 26 | The work naturally becomes more analytical and mathematically challenging at this stage . |
| 27 | Their last work together had been with a dead child . |
| 28 | The third part will draw the work together to establish whether the effect of the changes in the supply and demand side of the heavy electrical industry will lead to a more efficient market structure and assess the role of national and international authorities in improving the functioning of this market . |
| 29 | A supreme example is the work familiarly known as ‘ Gray 's Anatomy ’ . |
| 30 | I shook my head and Reid cheerfully walked on to the veranda , munching his ‘ breakfast ’ — his day 's work apparently done . |