Example sentences of "works at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a very funny joke , but it works at the expense of treating her like a child , which is not at all what the novel usually intends . |
| 2 | Dr Harold Aspden works at the Department of Electrical Engineering , University of Southampton . |
| 3 | Catriona Stewart sells her patch boxes to some of the most exclusive shops in the country , yet she still works at the kitchen table ‘ with meals , toys and people all around ’ . |
| 4 | We know your mother works at the Royal Victoria Hospital , they told him , we know where your sister works , and there are sectarian killings down there . |
| 5 | The commission wants Britain to build sewage works at the seaside to treat bacteria before it is pumped into the sea . |
| 6 | Mr Maurette , who works at the CNRS Nuclear and Mass Spectrometry Centre near Paris , and Mr Pourchet , a glaciologist from the University of Grenoble , devised a scheme to prise micrometeorites from the continent 's icy grip using hot water and careful filtration . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There 's a pal of mine who works at the wood yard and he brings me a bag of bits of wood that 's been left over . |
| 9 | Natural selection ( which , after all , works at the genic level ) favours the segregation distorter , even though its effects at the level of the individual organism are likely to be bad . |
| 10 | If either considers it necessary , the headteacher or governing body may suspend , on full pay , anyone who works at the school . |
| 11 | ‘ I had Barney Summerville in tonight , you know , he works at the big house . |
| 12 | The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year . |
| 13 | Norman studies how people interact with computers ; he works at the University of California in San Diego . |
| 14 | The breakthrough came from one of Eddy 's colleagues , Ronald Gilliland , who also works at the High Altitude Observatory . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's as true as I stand here … had it from Mary Daniels as works at the Galleon . |
| 16 | The confusion arose because of sewage drainage works at the station car park . |
| 17 | Lance Gardner , who works at the Castlefields Health Centre , Runcorn , in Cheshire , says the arrangement should give nurses the recognition they deserve for the work they do . |
| 18 | When she failed to turn up , her boyfriend , Dennis Davis , who also works at the centre , phoned her mother . |
| 19 | Her boyfriend , 38-year-old Dennis Davis , who also works at the centre , rushed there when he heard she was alive , hoping to be reunited with her . |
| 20 | One girl who works at the Space Center seems almost beside herself — she was planning to come to tonight 's gig , but after a late night last week her parents ( strict Christians ) grounded her and took away her ticket . |
| 21 | The writer works at the impossible task of creating a poem , a narrative , which tries to narrow the gap between the signal and what is signalled : tries to reverse the separation between the world and what we write about the world . |
| 22 | I remember , several weeks after my successful interview , discussing my impending change of job at a party with a neighbour who works at the local university . |
| 23 | More radically still , Derrida works at the limits of any possible philosophy of history , arguing that it is not just that the problems of hermeneutics , specifically of interpretation and language , affect historical understanding , but that what in a broad sense he calls writing , or différance , determines history . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He works at the KGB like Jesus he clears out all the filth and drives people away , because they have a lot of crooks there ’ . |
| 26 | Lesage , who works at the Institut Pinel for the Criminally Insane , testified that ‘ it is possible that people with serious emotional problems might take the letter , identify with its contents and use Lepine as a model ’ . |
| 27 | whatever fosters the growth of culture works at the same time against war . |
| 28 | Now , that 's really great to me because I mean , you 're really stimulating the youngsters at that age , and quite obviously I could tell you loads of stories the way this neighbourhood engineers er er , scheme works at the moment but as I say we are embarrassed at the moment because , quite obviously , loads of school want us to participate but we got a very shortage of engineers . |
| 29 | The model only works at the level of the textbook example , the single isolated sentence . |
| 30 | The human brain works at the speed of a computer or faster , but some milliseconds are needed for thought . |