Example sentences of "work at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the opponent is much heavier , the hook wo n't work at all . |
| 2 | But the group is convinced that it is only a matter of time before someone discovers superconducting semiconductors that will work at the economically viable temperatures of liquid nitrogen . |
| 3 | He is insistent that the only students who should work at doctoral level are those of first-class ability , who are independent of mind and inner-directed , so that they can work without much supervision , apart from ‘ a standing relation with a congenial senior to whom he can go now and then for criticism and advice . ’ |
| 4 | So Mr Baker can either give up , or he can work at weakening Likud . |
| 5 | In 1989 , in a state with average AFDC payments , a single woman with two children who took a job at the minimum wage ( then $3.35 an hour ) would earn a paltry $33 more each month than if she did not work at all and stayed on welfare . |
| 6 | On the following day , the coal owners locked out those miners who would not work at lower rates of pay — of up to 49 per cent in the badly affected export area of South Wales — and attempted to suspend national agreements . |
| 7 | Mere are many ways in which governments and their supporters can prevent these methods from being effective , but they can not work at all if the opposition has no real procedural opportunity to apply real scrutiny , nor if its efforts do not arouse the media of information and public opinion . |
| 8 | Chains , studs or snow tyres do not work at all then . |
| 9 | They can work at speed , and make several passes in less time than it would take to plough the same area with mould-board equipment . |
| 10 | To try to lead a normal life did n't work at all . |
| 11 | By June he had tried seven different prospective designers without finding one who could give him what he wanted , but was emphatic that he could not work at a distance with Hanns or other Johannesburg artists , ‘ so that 's that ’ . |
| 12 | The governors have power to decide the school 's complement — that is , how many people should work at the school and at what level . |
| 13 | One of the problems for local government is that it is easier to see how this might work at national level where the interests are clearer and more easily identifiable . |
| 14 | It is an example of construction : the liberality lies in finding a legal framework for an intention which could not work at civil law : that any acquirer of the money should be liable under the trust . |
| 15 | It didny work at a' — |
| 16 | Individual users can work at their own pace , repetition is possible and visual display in the form of diagrams is easy to achieve . |
| 17 | Individual students can work at their own paces and the exercises can be completed at convenient times within the student 's schedule of studies . |
| 18 | Students can work at their own pace and repetition is possible . |
| 19 | He will work at both centres until that time . |
| 20 | I asked if his telephone would work at the next big stop which came under the heading of serious to me . |
| 21 | She did n't work at Sakata because she was pregnant . |
| 22 | It is true that additional therapy may be necessary to achieve this end , but that therapy alone , without the preliminary understanding afforded by experiences during regression , would be an uphill task and might never work at all . |
| 23 | You can work at your own pace and choose from a wide range of flowers from around the world . |
| 24 | If so , this is the exact thing that you must work at until you are happy that you can cope . |
| 25 | For Danielle , who had natural ability and a rather pushy mother , a concert career fizzled out because she did n't work at it . |
| 26 | At peak capacity some 56 people — seven teams of eight surgical staff — could work at the same time . |
| 27 | So if there are good records etc , the split should work at least until any valid direction is made . |
| 28 | Would you work at it with other women , or are you a loner in that respect ? |
| 29 | Throughout 1955 Clift did n't work at all . |
| 30 | ‘ Why ca n't you work at home ? ’ |