Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [prep] work " in BNC.

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1 If you are busy at home or out at work ( and perhaps you have others to look after as well ) it can be hard to envisage any free time .
2 A family may have a low income in work because of low pay , or out of work from social security benefits .
3 It has taken present-day governments some time to understand that a universal benefit is a bulwark against the disincentive effects of a largely means-tested system , and that , given that the benefit is paid irrespective of whether the household head is in or out of work but is nevertheless deducted from supplementary benefit , it helps maintain a difference between income in paid work and income on the dole .
4 They cut benefits to pensioners , the severely disabled , widows , the unemployed , those with industrial injuries and families with children , in or out of work .
5 Any time Thresher staff have a problem in or out of work , they can call an outside consultancy , focus .
6 ‘ If present trends continue we will have fewer people at work making things than out of work making nothing , ’ he declared .
7 It is one of the ways in which we ensure that , so far as possible , people are better off in work than out of work .
8 It was manned by zombies who not only clocked in and out of work , but for lunch also .
9 OUT OF THE EXAM ROOM AND OUT OF WORK Hundreds of newly-qualified chartered accountants are also newly redundant , but few are very surprised
10 These adapted themselves to a life in and out of work since they had a strong street culture with which to identify .
11 However , Jenkins also identified a far larger third group ‘ ordinary kids ’ who fitted neither of these two extremes and developed a range of survival strategies in and out of work and a pragmatic acceptance of their position .
12 Important here has been the ‘ charters ’ drawn up by feminists , in and out of work , listing minimum demands relating to women 's disadvantages in employment and at home .
13 ‘ If I were coining it down in the bull market , ’ I reminded him , ‘ and you were my oldest friend and out of work and you came up with two corking girls like that , I 'd be honoured to pay the bill . ’
14 I was in and out of work .
15 And what was the attitude over and above , other than obviously coming in and out of work , what was the attitude of the local neighbours and whatnot towards them ?
16 New styles of management and industrial relations have emerged , alongside a polarisation between groups in different kinds of employment , between those in and out of work , and between different areas .
17 The replacement ratio measures income in and out of work so that it measures net-of-tax earnings minus work-related expenses as compared with out-of-work transfer payments contingent upon the status of being unemployed .
18 On returning from Spring Harvest ( and back to work ) I found that I was constantly thinking about God , Jesus , being a Christian .
19 A strengthening in their fibre , and back to work
20 No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you .
21 The operation had apparently been quite straightforward ; Kirsty was home in under a week and back at work after a month , with no obvious after-effects .
22 He is now in excellent health and back at work , maintained on 6 mg per day oral FK506 and 5 mg prednisolone .
23 American actors work on their craft while out of work . ’
24 But since the tax burden on earnings rose , there was probably some small rise in the net amount received while out of work , relative to pay received while working .
25 However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work .
26 There were between a quarter and a half a million people registered as out of work .
27 Numbers registered as out of work rose from just over a million in 1979 to over 3 million in 1983 .
28 Some people claim there is not much difference between the after-tax earnings of low-paid workers and their social security entitlements when out of work .
29 The primary reason for this move was not a desire for increased tax revenue , welcome as this no doubt was , but , rather , an expression of the Government 's opposition to people enjoying a larger income when out of work than they could take home in a wage packet .
30 ( 1986 ) , from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development , showed that members of the cohort of London youth being studied were more likely to commit offences when out of work than when employed .
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