Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] work at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former executive officer with the civil service working at the National Engineering Laboratory , East Kilbride , she was now physically and mentally handicapped . |
| 2 | Much of his work was on pottery already in museum collections , or as a pottery assistant to Bushe-Fox , but at Templebrough , he was director of the excavations which had been made necessary by the extension of the large steel works at the end of the Great War . |
| 3 | The human brain works at the speed of a computer or faster , but some milliseconds are needed for thought . |
| 4 | The characteristic townsmen worked at a craft to meet purely local demands . |
| 5 | We 'll make the poor Weavers work at a low rate ; We 'll find fault where there 's no fault , and so we will bate ; If trading goes dead , we will presently show it ; But if it grows bad , they shall never know it ; We 'll tell them that cloth beyond sea will not go , We care not whether we keep clothing or no . |
| 6 | At different times , the town was well known for its stocking frame knitters , the substantial brick works at the Mythe , as well as , during the 19th century , its large brewery , originally founded by David Jones , and later taken over by Blizard and Colman . |
| 7 | Stimulated by Gould 's remarks , he reached for a piece of paper lying near to hand — presumably one that was being drawn on by one of the zoological draughtsmen working at the Society at the time — and proceeded to write on the reverse side of the drawing . |
| 8 | But the 160 men working at the Midlothian pit are now hoping that a series of meetings this week will secure both the future of the colliery and their jobs . |
| 9 | The Renaissance family epitaph from 1582 in the Archbishop 's Chapel ( 15 ) or Pernštejn family chapel was designed by Jan Vredeman de Vries , one of the most important of the northern Mannerists working at the court of Rudolf II . |
| 10 | The other half of the local freemen worked at the food and drink trades ( 10·5 per cent ) , clothing ( 8·9 ) , leather ( 7·9 ) , building ( 5·8 ) , the professions ( 5·4 ) , the metal trades ( 3·2 ) or at a variety of miscellaneous tasks . |