Example sentences of "working at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 2 | He is currently working at the Three Lions restaurant , Stuckton , Dorset . |
| 3 | A paper recently published by Jacek Baranowski et al working at the University of California , Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ( Phys Rev Lett , Vol 66 no 23 ) describes a new form of gallium arsenide that will superconduct at a temperature of 10K . |
| 4 | It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation . |
| 5 | Contrary to reports in Paris last week , government investigators working at the central police laboratory here have ruled out the presence of the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex , which caused the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 6 | Tony had just returned from Iceland , his epic cycle tour , and I was back from Switzerland , buoyed up by time spent working at the Research Station on the Jungfraujoch . |
| 7 | In the city he is just another casual labourer working at the lowest level of urban employment . |
| 8 | On race day , after all-night working at the factory , a solitary car turned up and the stewards gave special permission for driver Raymond Sommer to do three exploratory laps . |
| 9 | He also imported cameramen , make-up staff and editors from Europe and America , so that those working at the studio could learn the more advanced techniques . |
| 10 | Most of the high technology services firms were working at the frontier of computer usage , developing new software packages or sophisticated interactive training models for business . |
| 11 | A male colleague of Perkins ' , working at the same grade , is also taking a day off a week to spend more time with his children and perhaps this is the most heartening news of all . |
| 12 | The son of a labourer from Grenada 's sister island of Carriacou , which he represented in parliament for nearly 30 years , he cut his political teeth , like many other Caribbean leaders , working at the giant Lago oil refinery on Dutch-ruled Aruba in the 1940s . |
| 13 | while in other cases the geological sources have been identified fairly exactly by petrology even though there is little archaeological evidence of working at the outcrops themselves . |
| 14 | The compilers of the whole narrative , working at the time of the exile in Babylonia , were convinced that the catastrophe had overtaken their people because they and their kings had not been faithful to their God . |
| 15 | The career structure for kennel staff is identical here but , as Nicole Keefe the kennel manager told me : ‘ Working at the breeding centre can involve more unsociable hours . |
| 16 | In the same way we can now tell that there were two engravers working at the mint of Rome under the Roman Emperor Vespasian . |
| 17 | And we know the experience of pianists working at the keyboard . |
| 18 | Smith was working at the High Commission in India when he met and married his wife , Isa , who survives him . |
| 19 | A COVENTRY schoolgirl who helped form a theatre company at the age of 14 and took a play to Russia on a 10-day tour two years later could soon be working at the National Theatre . |
| 20 | Kujabi is related to a watchman working at the house , owned by Mr Eddie Brewer , 72 , an ecologist and former British colonial service official . |
| 21 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 22 | Some of the more important include George Blake , who worked for MI6 ( see Chapter 2 ) ; John Cairncross , who betrayed Ultra secrets from the Government Code & Cipher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park during the war to the Russians ; John Vassall , a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty ; Frank Bossard , who gave the Russians details of British and American guided weapons systems ( which must have amused them greatly as the Russians were far ahead of the West at the time ) ; and William Marshall , who had worked as a cipher clerk at the British Embassy in Moscow . |
| 23 | In 1971 Oleg Lyalin , a KGB officer working at the Russian trade mission in London , defected to MI6 and gave enough information about Russian espionage activities to justify the prime minister , Edward Heath , expelling an unprecedented 105 Russian diplomats from Britain . |
| 24 | My only pen had stopped working at the start of the walk ; in the rain my watch face went blank . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In 1911 , when he was working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York , he described the transmission of a malignant new growth by means of a cell-free filtrate . |
| 27 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 28 | As implied by his reference to wearing Messel 's costumes , John had begun by May , while still working at the Sadler 's Wells School , to appear in the corps de ballet at Covent Garden , although only in The Sleeping Beauty which needed a large cast . |
| 29 | I was working at the Open University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor in charge of student affairs . |
| 30 | Melanie Henwood joined the King 's Fund Institute as a Fellow in Health Policy Analysis in July 1989 after working at the Family Policy Studies Centre since 1983 . |