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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Good presentation : dress standards of a person working at the highest levels of large corporations .
4 The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year .
5 A former executive officer with the civil service working at the National Engineering Laboratory , East Kilbride , she was now physically and mentally handicapped .
6 She paid him eight shillings — or 40p — a week to work at the 16-room house she had inherited .
7 In the city he is just another casual labourer working at the lowest level of urban employment .
8 At this time A. A. Griffith ( 1893–1963 ) was a young man working at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough .
9 But I mean it was a hell of a way to work at the same time .
10 Of course dad worked at the other pit , that was where he lived .
11 Dad worked at the local car factory .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 whatever fosters the growth of culture works at the same time against war .
15 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 .
16 We know your mother works at the Royal Victoria Hospital , they told him , we know where your sister works , and there are sectarian killings down there .
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