Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] work " in BNC.

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1 I find it difficult to understand how they are going to carry on experimental work at other depots that are n't really equipped to carry out experimental work , and so for that reason , I mean , there 's a great deal of concern that these cuts are n't rather more cosmetic that they 've been made out to be .
2 Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult .
3 For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists .
4 Bring in related work experience with the emphasis on how quick you are to learn new skills .
5 She supported me enthusiastically in bringing in new work practices in the interests of efficiency , and in introducing new services and extending others .
6 One of erm questions which I was asked to address on this occasion was er in connection with the obtaining of new work was why erm do n't we er give financial incentives to er if they are successful in bringing in new work .
7 If anybody is successful in bringing in new work into the office , clearly that reflects in their achievements and their objectives , merely that reflects in their assessment so far as er their managers and are concerned and clearly that will will be reflected in their pay , so that will be the way that er we would normally tackle and that would be the way I I was prepared to tackle it .
8 Anything which attempts to reverse this by bringing in unfamiliar work from the past which students have a positive motive for wanting to read must be a good thing , and strikes a blow against cultural amnesia .
9 Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off .
10 She 'd been glad to find so much work waiting for her when she arrived back in England .
11 However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art .
12 Heads of department acquired heavier responsibilities , but were at the same time often grouped in wider partnerships — often known , somewhat grandly , as faculties — to encourage more interdisciplinary work and greater flexibility in the use of resources .
13 On the level of er drugs and alcohol though we 're concerned to provide more social work time and support for the voluntary er agencies that are working in this field and also to provide direct services to people who are using drugs .
14 Why do n't you go back to your own surgery and try to drum up some work ? ’
15 It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession .
16 The jet has a high bottom line , the operator has to find as much work for it as he can to spread its costs and make a profitable .
17 Often a rent-free period is not an inducement but just a rearrangement of the overall rent , or reflects the fact that the tenant can not put the building into use until he has carried out certain work .
18 The derivations given here are due to the author and were published in the first edition , but Larson has also carried out similar work independently .
19 Refer to the compliance unit if the client is an audit client or if there is a possibility that the UK firm has carried out any work for the client in the past .
20 The lowest price submitted for the work , £232,024 , was from John Kelk of No. 13 South Street , Grosvenor Square , who had already carried out some work for the Government , but is better known as a railway contractor .
21 The psychiatrist John Cooper has carried out some work on the personality characteristics of ‘ houseproud ’ women .
22 However , dentists have carried out more work than anticipated .
23 In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green .
24 That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones .
25 No — his voice was grave and deep , with no hint of amusement , as he replied , ‘ You have the job , yes , but I 'm not sure if you realise how much work is involved . ’
26 So , I mean , we know what we want , but it 's them and not us , I mean , it is frightening to start a business up , 'cos we do n't know how much work we 'll be getting , but , I mean ,
27 The award-winning work involved pretty heavy work including renovating and constructing 35 new castle steps , removing the huge fallen trees and restoring three bridges .
28 The micro-processor , enabling previously labour-intensive work to be carried out by robots , will give us greater leisure ; the leisure industry is labour-intensive ; therefore , paradoxically , instead of reducing the number of jobs , the micro-processor has actually given us the potential to create more careers than it destroys — but only if we plan the leisure it gives us in a comprehensive and professional way .
29 His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " .
30 This acts to surprise the liver into activity , for it has very little work to do when you are on a pure diet .
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