Example sentences of "to work at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The scheme will not apply to staff who are contracted to work at multiple locations .
2 This project has been described in some detail for it exemplifies the way social workers may need to adapt their skills , to work with colleagues from other disciplines , and also to work at one remove from the client , in sustaining an informal care network , or a family network .
3 One dealer , desperate to work at one licensed dealer was kept at bay because his arrival might have attracted press publicity .
4 The real limitation was time ; many students , although they enjoyed the projects , felt the pressure of looming final examinations and said that they were unable to complete their project to their own satisfaction and had to make the best of a bad job in order to work at other , equally pressing , aspects of the course .
5 I often had eight or nine pints before breakfast ; and breakfast was at eight o'clock , when we used to get to work at two o'clock in the morning .
6 To be ready to work at all times .
7 ‘ I had n't planned to work at all . ’
8 ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all .
9 ‘ Which means we do n't have to work at all , ’ Aidan said cheerfully .
10 One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all .
11 You do n't have to work at all . "
12 On occasion , it might refuse to work at all and we find ourselves longing for the days of youth when it would stand at attention regardless of any identifiable sexual stimulus .
13 For the system to work at all smoothly from their point of view , the estimates of inflation built into the Treasury 's cash target for their department must be accurate .
14 In 1890 , Beatrice Webb referred caustically to ‘ individualists , reinforced by a batch of excellent ladies ( eager for the Right of Woman to work at all hours of the day and night with the minimum space and sanitation ) ’ who opposed any attempt to regulate conditions in workshops and the homework trades .
15 Nevertheless , if it 's going to work at all , a well planned kitchen has , first and foremost , to suit the cook .
16 Only in keeping with the bumper sticker , the driver is n't heading to work at all .
17 If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned .
18 ‘ So you see , ’ he wound up after an interminable pause in which the flames seemed to swirl between them , ‘ it 's not going to work at all .
19 Meanwhile , anybody working in a pub , a cafe , a restaurant , a tea shop , a cinema , or serving food or drink of any type has to work at all those times .
20 It adds that ARC Northern had permission for quarrying and treatment of stone , apart from the roadstone coating , to work at all times , including Sundays .
21 I crossed it out because I thought it was gon na say cos I thought it said , survey managers are instructed to work at all times
22 To work at that speed we ca n't even drink a cup of tea .
23 Tell me something of the hours you used to work at that time .
24 Of course , we had to walk to work at that time o' day .
25 To get you to work at that .
26 If you want in Colossians chapter one in verse twenty seven , it 's , it 's given again very simply , again can I use J B Phillips , he puts it like this , he says the secret is simply this , Christ in you yes he says Christ in you , bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come , so what God does he comes in to this situation that 's marred that 's warped , that 's twisted and he comes in by himse , Jesus Christ comes into it , he becomes the central point , the focal point and that circle , it starts to get dealt with , that marred twisted like , it does n't happen being like that , we knew creation straight away , we do n't have to work at that , but he , as we allow him to dwell in us and to work out his purpose , he restores that relationship with God and God starts to fashion us , he starts to work on us and bring us back into how he originally created us .
27 I see him Saturday morning , when he comes to work at five o'clock yes .
28 Cos he has to work at five o'clock each morning .
29 The bike was in his space when she got to work at eight .
30 Could he honestly believe that when I went off to work at nine o'clock each morning I was really heading for some regular-as-clockwork day-long love-nest ?
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