Example sentences of "work at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're short of worktops , a wooden block on wheels can be moved to a free space and allows you to work at a similar height to your kitchen worktop . |
| 2 | They need perhaps ten times as much computational power as a 3D system to work at a similar speed . |
| 3 | An adjustable reading stand is an essential piece of equipment for pupils who need to work at a close range . |
| 4 | For some specialised yarns , say those with knops , or the hairy yarns , you will probably need to work at a looser tension for the cables to show but this is not to their disadvantage since the cables , loosely worked , frequently add to the richness of the finished look . |
| 5 | This approach does however force the wireframe modeller to work at a higher level of understanding than exists in most present systems . |
| 6 | If an employee is required to work at a new location and the distance between the old and new places of work is short enough to make commuting possible , organisations may not require employees to move their homes . |
| 7 | There has recently been a sharp rise of interest in artificial intelligence — very broadly the attempt to write computer programs to work at a human level of intelligence and performance in such tasks as identifying and recognising objects in cluttered environments , understanding ordinary human languages such as English , or diagnosing what is wrong in cases of human illness or machine failure . |
| 8 | About three weeks after I started looking , I came upon an advertisement for a receptionist to work at a local authority office building , not too far from my new home . |
| 9 | Any movements of base level set the sea to work at a different level and the processes of subaerial erosion to grade to the new level . |
| 10 | There will be pupils who need to work at a different pace from most of their classmates , and who require specialised equipment and materials in order to have access to the curriculum . |
| 11 | It has so far only managed to produce a sample P5 running at 40MHz — just two thirds of the 66MHz speed Intel intended — and can not get the thing to work at a faster rate . |
| 12 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 13 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 14 | If there are doubts about the search firm 's ability to work at a senior level , say to find a chief executive , the client may well invite two or three firms in to pitch competitively and see who has the best overall track record and appears most attractive and experienced to the Board . |
| 15 | Some of our SPECIALIST WEEKENDS allow you to work at an ADVANCED LEVEL . |
| 16 | Another doctor , Edward Spitzka , believed that an unwillingness to work at an appointed task was itself a symptom of masturbatory insanity . |
| 17 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 18 | It is not yet clear how many criteria teachers and others can be expected to manage , or find useful , but the limited amount of research and observation which has been conducted in this area suggests that teachers do not always work at a high level of detailed information . |
| 19 | We worked at a hectic pace . |
| 20 | Anna worked at a little table in their bedroom . |
| 21 | Sheila Baughan , who worked at a local school , was found holding a telephone . |
| 22 | We worked at an unheard-of pace . |
| 23 | Her fingers worked at a small lace handkerchief , twisting and untwisting it in an extremity of nervous tension . |
| 24 | So Harriet had n't worked at a regular job . |
| 25 | She was n't a bad wife or anything like that , it was just that she 'd met this man at work , where she worked , they both worked at a dry cleaning place . |
| 26 | Wendy had worked at a local hospital as a clerk in medical records before giving up work to look after her children . |
| 27 | No mother of a case had worked at a nuclear establishment before her child 's conception , and no mother had a record of being monitored for exposure to ionising radiation at any time before diagnosis ( table V ) . |
| 28 | Apparently my mother had worked at a big house somewhere and fallen in love , but it had all gone wrong . |
| 29 | Marie said nothing but she had worked at an old people 's home as part of her Community Care Course . |
| 30 | Pattern cutters , fitters , sewing hands and their assistants all worked at an incredible speed . |