Example sentences of "work harder " in BNC.

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1 The resulting high blood sugar level — the unconverted carbohydrate — means the kidneys must work harder , thus requiring more water to flush out waste products .
2 If they like you , your customers will buy more , your employees and suppliers will work harder and your shareholders will be more loyal — which is useful to fend off predators .
3 You and I , therefore , must work harder , especially you , as I have felt no evidence of your considerable weight since I took office .
4 Attempts to make locomotives work harder and to get more miles per shift out of drivers proved frustrating .
5 ‘ In this country it would be very difficult to persuade workers that they should work harder for the good of the company .
6 But he warned businessmen they must work harder to make British industry more competitive .
7 Also , you may find that in taking this concrete approach , you are making your nouns work harder for you and using fewer adjectives .
8 In general , where the reward for an undesirable behaviour is withdrawn ( such as the loss of attention ) the child will work harder to regain the lost reward .
9 When she was calmer , she also made it clear that she felt that a stricter approach that forced Balbinder to concentrate and work harder was all that was needed .
10 As an advocate of the STV has observed , if an MP is " forced by the system to spend his working hours worrying about the number of first-preference votes he will get at the next election , and many of his sleeping hours dreaming about them , he or she will work harder than ever for constituents ' "
11 Many students who exercise find that they need less sleep and have more stamina because their muscles can work harder and longer with less effort .
12 We can not , for example , take for granted that raising a person 's wages will make him work harder .
13 This means they can enjoy a higher standard of living even though they themselves do not work harder to produce more .
14 The assumption behind these theories is that employees will work harder for managers who employ certain styles of leadership .
15 Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that .
16 Nevertheless , quite apart from their value as a temporary measure to kick-start a move to overcome corporate cultural stereotypes , it was argued convincingly that at an operational level they worked as a performance standard on managers , making them work harder to find , encourage and develop female high-fliers .
17 Also one would have to work out whether peasants were subsistence minded in that how that once they 'd achieved their subsistence was that all they would want or would they really want to sort of erm work harder and start sharing all their tools and implements in order to gain an even higher productivity .
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