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Example sentences of "[verb] work [adv] " in BNC.

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1	They tend to work effectively when a balance of roles is present in their composition .
2	They too tend to work very hard , harder than they would have done at school , and get good results .
3	Today we tend to work more with our Investigation teams who have much wider sources of information up to international level .
4	Multiple causality means that two or more causes tend to work together to produce an effect .
5	Meths stoves , like the popular Trangia , tend to work better in wind and can cope with cold , but you might find the meths a little difficult to light in extreme cold .
6	Well , on the centigrade scale that 's at minus two six nine approximately , but in fact we in physics tend to work always with an , what we call an absolute scale of temperature .
7	Bradshaw and Millar found that about two-thirds ( 62 per cent ) of lone mothers on income support said that they did not want to work immediately although they would want to work in the future .
8	She does n't want to work today .
9	Why do you want to work here ?
10	What 's up with you ? she said , do n't you want to work here ?
11	But it also makes me want to work harder , ’ Navratilova said .
12	I 've got Marc Bolan who wants to record day and night and is keen to go , and I might as well put my energies into him because you really do n't want to work very hard . ’
13	I 'm Quechua , but I do n't want to work as hard as they must do .
14	But European astronomers do not want to work only within ESA .
15	You do n't want to work hard for a year establishing your act , get offered a tour , and then find that your drummer wo n't give up his milk round .
16	We do n't want to work hard .
17	‘ It 's about how you live and how you want your children to live , having certain attitudes , such as that it 's important to be polite and respect your elders and that you should want to work hard at school , ’ was one typical comment .
18	You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder !
19	I certainly did n't when I applied to work there .
20	Examiners found that safety valves — designed to keep the arm bands inflated when the stoppers are knocked out — failed to work properly .
21	‘ It 's no good , I have to go to work soon .
22	I had to go to work about nine .
23	Its funny you know , sometimes when I 'm out at schools the kids will come up to me and say , ‘ Do you have to go to work now ? ’
24	She had to go to work too .
25	I 'm glad young people do n't have to go to work so early these days , but for many of my generation , it was the accepted way of life , and most of them were happy in it .
26	‘ We intend to work just as creatively to negotiate a convention on climate change — a framework of action for the nations of the world .
27	‘ I intend to work hard at finding a sensible solution that 's best for our entire family .
28	And yet he does n't think that he is quick enough : ‘ I used to compete in athletics but I do n't see myself as being all that quick and I intend to work hard on improving my speed .
29	As a general guide , breeds which have been developed to work closely with people , such as retrievers , sheepdogs and spaniels are among the most responsive to training .
30	President , Congress , Roy London Region moving motion two five five on the T & G. Colleagues , let's make it clear , this motion is not opposed to a merger of the T & G. What it seeks to do is put forward another idea which is to continue to work closely with the T & G on a wide range of jointly agreed .