Example sentences of "work [coord] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of doing more work or adding extra lexicographers will be to degrade individual response times . |
| 2 | For instance , if the spouse does not speak much , if any , English , limitations on finding work or becoming involved in the local community are bound to arise . |
| 3 | The population , it was added , was for the most part interested only in their daily problems of work and getting sufficient provisions , and there was little talk about military events . |
| 4 | At the hearing he also raised claims about her being absent from work and using foul language to residents . |
| 5 | Monday 8.55am — I arrive at the office for what looks like a quiet day catching up on necessary office work and telephoning some of our low-dependency clients to see how they are . |
| 6 | A gifted public speaker , he was at his best reading aloud his own work and delivering stylish penetrating eisteddfodic adjudications in his memorably sonorous voice . |
| 7 | Around 1839 the family moved to Coniston where , in 1840 , he obtained a start at the copper mine doing sundry or day work and renting one of the mine cottages . |
| 8 | I 'm not always very good at saying what I mean , except at work , that is ; I 've been to Europe and the States but never to Nineveh and Distant Ophir ; I do n't have much time — literally — for the arts , though I 'm not against them in any way , you understand ( sometimes there 's a nice concert on the car radio ; like most people I read a book or two on holiday ) ; and I do n't give much of a thought to my clothes beyond looking smart at work and feeling comfortable when I get home . |
| 9 | It evens out the peaks coping with fluctuations in work and ensuring continuous work flow . |
| 10 | If you do this you are unlikely to face the problem of forgetting about work and having inadequate time to do an assignment justice . |
| 11 | He helped by doing much of the specialist machining work and designing many of the one-off items needed to marry up the different parts . |
| 12 | Presumably , the other professional members were not supposed to feel dishonoured by this explanation : after all , what had Elena Ceauşescu done other than engage in those everyday academic activities — plagiarism , paying others to write one 's work and bullying those unwilling to comply ? |
| 13 | Even under local management of schools there may be little that you can do about restoring peeling paint work and cleaning grimy windows , but it is possible to keep litter under control and flower beds and grassed areas looking attractive . |