Example sentences of "works at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year .
2 Natural selection ( which , after all , works at the genic level ) favours the segregation distorter , even though its effects at the level of the individual organism are likely to be bad .
3 The writer works at the impossible task of creating a poem , a narrative , which tries to narrow the gap between the signal and what is signalled : tries to reverse the separation between the world and what we write about the world .
4 At 63 , he works at the Open University and is another member of the local council .
5 The breakthrough came from one of Eddy 's colleagues , Ronald Gilliland , who also works at the High Altitude Observatory .
6 ‘ I had Barney Summerville in tonight , you know , he works at the big house .
7 Tierrie Molignengo , who is 23 , works at the 15 North Parade restaurant , and he hopes he 's going to win through to the National Finals which take place in April , with his menu for four , which has by the rules of the game , to cost less than £35 .
8 whatever fosters the growth of culture works at the same time against war .
9 I remember , several weeks after my successful interview , discussing my impending change of job at a party with a neighbour who works at the local university .
10 We know your mother works at the Royal Victoria Hospital , they told him , we know where your sister works , and there are sectarian killings down there .
11 One of our customers works at the Royal Mint .
12 one thinks of bread , cheese , butter , tea and coffee from City firms ; car loads of books from Roseburn ; a pressure cooker from a member moved by the despairing note in one of our appeals ; a whole set of Carlyles 's works , which was eventually sold to the new Carlyle library in Haddington ; fascinating nautical ephemera from the Manse ; a huge pile of oil paintings of Edinburgh from a young artist who works at the National Gallery ; even geological specimens and polished stones from a lady in our Abbeyfield House ; and of course our ‘ stock in trade ’ , those exciting grocer 's boxes of ‘ mixed ’ books .
13 The body of a young child works at the maximum rate , enabling the child to process far more information in a given time than an adult could .
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