Example sentences of "work at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme will not apply to staff who are contracted to work at multiple locations . |
| 2 | To be ready to work at all times . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To work at that speed we ca n't even drink a cup of tea . |
| 7 | Tell me something of the hours you used to work at that time . |
| 8 | Of course , we had to walk to work at that time o' day . |
| 9 | However , Lindstedt cautions that such visual behaviour as peering closely at the work being undertaken by no means offers a complete solution to the problems arising from the need to work at close range . |
| 10 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 11 | No matter where you finally wind up in the advertising business , you will want to work at some stage in an agency to gain real insight into advertising and acquire first-rate skills ( and , hopefully , reputation ) that puts wheels under your career . |
| 12 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 13 | To work at this sort of depth it is necessary to dig a hole of bigger diameter and in this case you must consider your own safety . |
| 14 | Alongside tests of observation , students would be required to work at different sections in the kitchen : sauce-making ; larder-work ; vegetable-preparation , etc . |
| 15 | After a period of time you 'll feel that things have improved a bit in that area ( we hope ! ) , so flick through the book again and start trying to work at another area . |
| 16 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 17 | To summarise , then , concentration is a skill you must develop if you are to work at high efficiency . |
| 18 | As a definition , this has its flaws but it can still help us understand better what health care should be about and enables us to work at improving health care provision . |
| 19 | This means there will be time to get everything down but that your brain will have to work at full speed and concentration to analyse all the words . |
| 20 | The company is already seeing substantial demand from the workstation industry — RISCs need much more memory to work at full efficiency — and forecasts that demand will soar . |
| 21 | How long did you work at that place for , then ? |
| 22 | According to Bob Moberly , GEC Plessey 's manager of broadband networks , ‘ The network is based on the [ US ] SMDS standard , but will work at European data rates . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It might work at international level but at club level you need a hardworking manager with a good business head . |
| 25 | Find out how you can work at highest efficiency — it pays dividends . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | On the other hand he could work at all hours of the day and night — much to the dismay of his advisers and household servants who would have preferred a more predictable routine . |
| 28 | What happens when ‘ he ’ moves in and I ca n't work at all hours , ca n't eat when I like , ca n't take a bath any time I like , when he insists that I visit his relatives ? |
| 29 | Management by objectives , says Wrapp , may work at lower levels of the organization where tasks and accountabilities are well defined , but they do n't work at the top . |
| 30 | 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 . |