Example sentences of "work the system " in BNC.
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| 1 | To work the system , the operator first takes the normal cap from the spray container to expose the foil seal . |
| 2 | Accountants would always be kept busy showing the rest of us how to work the system . |
| 3 | If , in fact , traffic had warranted operations through a 12 hour day , then the number of men required to work the system would have been 4 not 3 , with some duplication to provide relief , and the total wage bill would have been at least £8 per week , which makes Thomas 's figure look ridiculous . |
| 4 | We tried to work the system , but at times of intensive spraying operations we were asked reduce our area of notification as large areas of the country were blanketed off to military operations . |
| 5 | In the meantime , in order to prepare to work the system themselves , the Corporation wished to be rid of the fifteen cars that were the property of the B.E.T. , and asked them to remove them forthwith . |
| 6 | Our correspondent smiled to herself , no doubt thinking that the railway company must be short of staff if they had to bring such an old man out of his back garden to work the system . |
| 7 | I do want to record that during the past colleagues have , almost without exception , done their best to work the system and I have greatly appreciated that . |
| 8 | In the main , most hotels seem happy to let their concierges work the system to their advantage , providing their more entrepreneurial traits do not get the better of them , as they did in the case of those at the Heathrow Penta . |
| 9 | By adjusting the controls , the workers had managed to ‘ work the system ’ to their own advantage . |
| 10 | Those who are technologically and informationally illiterate find themselves unable to ‘ work the system ’ . |
| 11 | Lang thought Churchill ( from this point of view only ) the worst prime minister who ever worked the system . |
| 12 | This is why Leonard describes this as an adversary model of social work , in which practitioners ‘ work the system ’ with and in the interests of clients ( Leonard , 1976 , p. 262 ) . |
| 13 | It is better if this problem can be avoided by having the operators work the system properly . |
| 14 | Like the scouts at the TT races , it seems , the Japanese studied their subject , and now work the system rather better than the natives do . |
| 15 | Apart from the obvious requirement of a personal computer of some sort the other equipment required depends almost entirely on what sort of work the system will be used for . |
| 16 | And I think governments would do well to talk to the people at the sharp end , like magistrates , who use this system , work the system , liaise with all the various components in the system and do know what they 're talking about . |
| 17 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 18 | ‘ It 's extraordinary , most people have dismissed her as a hype-merchant who 's just good at working the system , but then she delivers something like this . |
| 19 | Those who advance in this environment are men with an instinct for securing supplies , mobilising resources , finessing statistics , cultivating connections and ‘ working the system ’ . |
| 20 | A new lifestyle has developed , whereby the energy of many people on means-tested assistance is channelled into what is called ‘ working the system ’ . |
| 21 | A move such as raising the real value of national insurance benefits , and of child benefit in particular , will , I believe , begin to change the psychological attitude of claimants , by allowing the extraordinary effort and intelligence that is currently absorbed into ‘ working the system ’ to be channelled into transforming the status of many currently caught in means-tested assistance . |
| 22 | They are all working the system . |
| 23 | THE crew enjoy working the system , and have developed an excellent team spirit — And there 's the incentive : If they do n't meet their targets their pride |