Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the product of forces that are constantly at work to effect an orderly distribution of populations and functions within the urban complex . |
| 2 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 3 | If you are away from work for a lengthy period , or for short spells at frequent intervals , your job may be at risk . |
| 4 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 5 | She had been away from work for eight years and her second child was starting school when she saw an advertisement for a part-time market research executive . |
| 6 | During the time that you 've been away from work you have certainly not been ‘ not working ’ — you have undertaken a whole host of activities which happen to have been unpaid . |
| 7 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 8 | Women who have been away from work for some time and are seeking to re-start can take the first steps to a new career at a Women Returners Event to be held tomorrow in Middlesbrough town hall crypt . |
| 9 | Other children , destined for the afternoon session in the schoolhouse , are already at work . |
| 10 | BA 's biggest competition so far seems to come from the Germans , who are already at work refurbishing Moscow 's existing international airport , Sheremtyero . |
| 11 | REVISIONISTS are already at work on April 24th 's gay march on Washington . |
| 12 | You 're here to work , so get moving . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought the idea was that we 're here to work , not to enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 14 | And I expect that same thing happens with the work related one , that because you 're never at work on your own , or hardly ever at work on your own , and the same thing when you started , you were n't ever on your own , you could say to people , am I doing it right . |
| 15 | Nearly a century and a half later , John Taylor and Company are still at work making bells that go all over the world , not only to churches and cathedrals , but to town halls , universities and other secular buildings . |
| 16 | If they are both off work today , how long will it be before they are both off again ? |
| 17 | Each business area now has its own quality improvement manager , a Quality Strategy Group has been appointged to look at long-term policy making , and corrective action teams are busily at work . |
| 18 | This gross difference is unlikely to be the result solely of the way in which the Directive is implemented in the two countries — other influences are also at work — but the implementation of the Directive in the two countries is certainly different in several respects . |
| 19 | To the degree that other motives are also at work faith is not radical reliance on God alone . |
| 20 | Remember the strong vested interest of politicians in alleging other causes of inflation , because if they can persuade the public that other causes than their own behaviour are really at work , then they will be able to transfer the responsibility from themselves to other people . |
| 21 | ( I should stress that I am using human size as an imaginary example : I do not know how many genetic loci and alleles are really at work in this case . ) |
| 22 | Daedalus would like to do the same thing for human senses , and DREADCO chemists are now at work on his ‘ contrast-exalting spectacles ’ or ‘ Cexspex ’ ( Regd. ) make of a cunning tinted glass . |
| 23 | The Police have estimated that at least 8,000 miners are now at work in the area . |
| 24 | Two teams of computer specialists are now at work , one to try and make sure the department 's existing system can cope , the second to have a new computer system at work from 1 January next year . |
| 25 | The terms offered to the 1,600 who are now without work are pitiful , especially when compared to those available to their fellows in Holland . |
| 26 | Some 2.5 million more women are now in work than i 1983 . |
| 27 | Needless to say , ff horns and tuba can be used together when many other instruments are simultaneously at work and there is much ‘ doubling ’ going on . |
| 28 | Sometimes the required information is about what tests are going to be performed and why ; the results of tests ; the medical diagnosis , particularly if , for example , heart disease or cancer are suspected ; how long to expect to be away from work and so on . |
| 29 | If you are going to be away from work for a period in the future , you will have to pay the full rate when you return to paid employment , so it might be as well to start now , and build up the maximum benefit . |
| 30 | Mike and Joanna , both dentists , arranged to be away from work for a year : Joanna sold her practice and Mike employed a locum . |