Example sentences of "works to " in BNC.
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| 1 | CLEAN beer is something of an obsession at Erdinger , which works to tolerances of a tenth of a degree of temperature , from mashing to fermentation , and is coy about revealing the details of either . |
| 2 | For the novelist works to one side — hence parajournalist — of the writer busy with magazine polemics in Time and Epoch , just as his novel exists to one side — parajournalism — of the double murder in the newspapers and of scary sciencefictionish forewarnings about microbes . |
| 3 | The proposals covered are development in a conservation area , works to a listed building or which affect the setting of a conservation area or a listed building , and developments in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty . |
| 4 | Besides , the levy works to the state 's advantage , allowing the church to pursue a useful social role and earning extra funds for federal coffers . |
| 5 | From the Maryhill Paper Works to Possil Loch the bridge of colour stretched over the city of Glasgow . |
| 6 | This works to ‘ dull ’ a band 's sense of adventure and as the work rate intensifies , it is a natural reaction to concentrate on artistic input and leave the fundamentals ( tour organisation and administrative chores ) to those employed for the purpose . |
| 7 | This is especially so when a diagnosis of dementia blinds works to remaining skills . |
| 8 | ARC/INFO works to a minimum tolerance — the smallest distance between any pair of coordinates — known as the fuzzy tolerance . |
| 9 | They range from sites of long-gone timber motte and bailey structures , through ruined stone works to well-preserved extensive buildings still lived in and enjoyed by owners or tenants . |
| 10 | Le Quement claims that all this is only possible by having a single drivetrain and wheel size specification but the limitation works to the car 's advantage . |
| 11 | One might almost be driven to conclude that there are in fact two ‘ plans ’ , the public one which always seems to go awry and a secret one that the economy actually works to . |
| 12 | In the absence of any agreement with your neighbour , you will not have any rights to carry out repairs or general maintenance works to the exposed face of your wall . |
| 13 | Without undervaluing the private sphere itself , we can still say that this arrangement works to the advantage of men . |
| 14 | Sexism in language is one manifestation of the system , and it works to the disadvantage of women , not men . |
| 15 | The Mapplethorpe Foundation , founded by the photographer in the year before his death in 1989 , has donated millions of dollars to fund medical research into AIDS and HIV infection and has provided many grants in the form of cash and gifts of Mapplethorpe works to qualified art institutions for the development and expansion of their photography programmes . |
| 16 | French auctioneers say the contrast between British and French rates of VAT ( 5.5% sales tax on original works , books and certain signed pieces of furniture and 18.6% on the rest ) will cause art works to be drained towards London to the detriment of the Paris art market . |
| 17 | The acquisition of a stereotype by a subgroup of the population usually works to its detriment , and although perhaps preserving a grain of truth in relation to the subgroup 's activities , it is also misleading for members of the whole population who use the stereotype . |
| 18 | The relationship between the team and Fininvest 's three television channels ( Rete 4 , Canale 5 , Italia 1 ) works to both sides ' advantage . |
| 19 | Most , however , had earned remission , which is given at a rate of five days per month , so long as the prisoner works to a satisfactory standard . |
| 20 | This involves two different types of the tiny , transportive liposome ; for the initial stage , an ‘ anti-fat ’ liposome containing caffeine works to break-up cellulitic lipidic clusters so that they may be disposed of more readily , while the trace element algo silicium assists in restructuring the fragile tissues . |
| 21 | This social structure is itself unequal , and works to the benefit of this dominant group . |
| 22 | He ensures that she ( if it is " she " ) works to his high standards and , furthermore , has the social skills to handle all types of people . |
| 23 | If you think about how people perceive things — with any of their senses and process them in their minds , you immediately realize that the human mind works to a very large extent by association , and by a more or less impenetrable system of mental shortcuts — just try playing word association games . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , one wonders to what extent higher education in the UK has played a role in creating not a military-industrial , but financial-bureaucratic complex , dominated by the City and the Treasury , which works to the long-term disadvantage of not simply manufacturing but all forms of ‘ producer ’ industries . |
| 25 | ‘ I now feel , after a year and a half on BP 's board , that I know enough about the company and the way it works to be able to make judgements about its style of management . |
| 26 | In 1879–80 the partners added an engine works to their enterprise and the following year equipped the yard to handle the newly introduced open-hearth steel . |
| 27 | This was the origin of the ‘ Crewe ’ locomotive type , which was built on a large scale after the transfer of the GJR works to Crewe , in the planning of which Buddicom was deeply involved . |
| 28 | Thereafter during the 1820s and 1830s he greatly expanded the firm 's architectural side — following his father 's death in 1827 he devoted his time entirely to architecture , leaving the management of the marble works to his younger brother Francis — and established a substantial practice in the north-west and the adjacent parts of Yorkshire . |
| 29 | The firm works to relatively short product life-cycles , but still expects some learning to occur . |
| 30 | All shafts , levels , adits , watercourses and works to be kept open or upstanding for present or future working , and to yield up these at the end of the term , with the bottoms clear of all dross and rubbish ; and the drifts , cross-cuts , sumps , pits , buddles , water-courses , dwelling houses , cabins , smelting houses , store houses , bingsteads , smithies , forges , workshops , etc . |