Example sentences of "about work " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last terms of the diploma course students often find tutorials , where they are given opportunity to talk about work in progress , enormously valuable . |
| 2 | When they talk about work of this type , policemen stress the importance of remaining detached and emotionally cold . |
| 3 | If you should stroll into a pub and meet an analyst and a user talking about work , and you can not tell one from the other , they have probably developed a successful system together . |
| 4 | And what about work ? |
| 5 | Led by Martine Mariez , the head of a building company , they say Disney designers keep changing their minds about work but the company then rejects the bill . |
| 6 | Videotapes of school activities are a useful means of communicating about work undertaken at school . |
| 7 | And what about work ? |
| 8 | ‘ Talking about work , ’ said Terry , ‘ when are you going to start doin' summat ? ’ |
| 9 | Whether writing in response to an advertisement or making a general enquiry about work , the following points apply |
| 10 | If you are a very busy person , working full-time ( or even more than full-time ) then one or two weeks of just being at home and forgetting about work can be marvellous . |
| 11 | ‘ But they want to talk about work , Maggie , get us into a union and all that . |
| 12 | Be a pal , Kate , and slip me the copy of Gay News you hide under your desk because I do n't allow it in the library , talk about work , Kate , discuss how we spend £5000 on economics books for the university libraries , tell me about how you 're stopping the students thieving my favourite art books , but please for God 's sake , Kate , do n't be difficult , do n't talk about imperialism and marxism and feminism , I 've heard it all before and said it all myself , twenty years ago before I had a wife and children to support . |
| 13 | Bishop Jukes , a Franciscan Friar , made it clear that his concern was not to offer technical solutions on energy policy but to promote Catholic teaching about work and workers . |
| 14 | He accepts the widely held view that the development of mass-production industry produced a sharp deterioration in the conditions of manual work and led to the emergence of a type of worker who combined a generalised hostility to the prevailing society with a primary preoccupation with militant economic action ; but he suggests that , as technology continues to develop , the increased use of full automation will eliminate many of the deepest sources of resentment about work , and , in so doing , encourage normative integration within the existing social structure of the enterprise . |
| 15 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 16 | Last year the Department of Employment had 34,000 inquiries about work abroad , compared with 25,000 in 1990 . |
| 17 | His second victim was drugged and raped when she went to see him for advice about work three months later . |
| 18 | Something of the despair and helplessness that men felt about work was projected into women . |
| 19 | We help each other out , and suggest things to each other , but that 's as much as we talk about work or TV . ’ |
| 20 | If you have n't had a good laugh about work in the past two days , something 's wrong . |
| 21 | He also knew about work in the USA and USSR from the mid 1970s on metallic hydrogen . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm a total puritan about work , ’ he confesses . |
| 23 | Work on women can not simply be added on to existing , flawed bodies of thought but requires a revolution in the ways in which we think about men as well as women , about work as well as the family , about political and public as well as private issues . |
| 24 | Beliefs are usually seen to be different again ( at least by researchers ) ; they are propositions about work and society . |
| 25 | Group norms about work , work rates , dress , conformity , and so on , are soon added to our concepts of the role we are to play . |
| 26 | What is particularly different about work groups , as opposed to others , is that the norms and standards are central to the rewards members receive . |
| 27 | Having to think about work . |
| 28 | Answers given by the forty women in the sample to questions about work tasks suggest that certain characteristics of housework may be more or less uniformly experienced as dissatisfying while others are potentially rewarding . |
| 29 | New Yorkers , alas , can be extremely dense about British art , especially about work done before the late Fifties . |
| 30 | Now 45 , Marian decided to remain unemployed for six months so she could see how she felt about work , to settle her daughters and adjust to her new house . |