Example sentences of "work [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can also insure your payments in case you 're unable to work due to sickness , accident or redundancy . |
| 2 | He hoped initially to provide weekly cash benefits and some medical treatment for all earners beneath the income-tax limits , also maternity benefit — one more attempt to reduce infant mortality — widows ' and orphans ' pensions ( which would remove a substantial group from the Poor Law ) and an ‘ invalidity pension ’ for those unable to work due to permanent sickness or disablement . |
| 3 | Although fewer than one in 10 identified another family member as unable to work due to their cystic fibrosis , the employment rate among mothers of adults with cystic fibrosis is less than that expected in women aged 45–60 . |
| 4 | The cover provided varies according to the requirements of the financial institution but generally includes the payment of benefit in the event of the insured customer being unable to work due to accident , sickness or unemployment . |
| 5 | The rich tend to work 18-hour days , and some of them burn themselves out at bond desks and on trading floors before they are 30 . |
| 6 | It is most commonly apparent where staff are employed to provide night cover only and therefore contracted to work specific hours to provide one , two or three night 's cover per week . |
| 7 | Following the OPEC price rise , the oil companies preferred not to work pre-1973 wells very intensely . |
| 8 | He nevertheless expressed the hope that Christian writers would be able to work free from the constraints of prejudice and censorship . |
| 9 | She may be able to work different hours for a period of time while her burden is shared by another member of the family or a neighbour . |
| 10 | A welder , for instance , may not recover sufficient balance or hand control to go back to welding , but he may be able to work light machinery . |
| 11 | Hostels or discharge units within the hospital grounds enable some patients to go out to work daily and have a relatively autonomous and responsible life , while retaining some of the security of the hospital environment . |
| 12 | We must put a stop to employees being put at risk , and being pressurized by ruthless employers to work unsafe , under the threat of if you do n't do it , then we 'll get somebody that will . |
| 13 | He has tried to work similar magic at the unwieldy Energy Department . |
| 14 | It is the only continuous book he ever wrote after 1945 — the rest is all essays and articles — and perhaps the only entire book by any British-born critic of the age to work moral and literary concerns into a single exercise of radical intellect , as indifferent to tact as to fashion and concerned only with truth itself . |
| 15 | In the event of a sudden shortfall in staffing levels , the agreement of sonic staff members to work additional hours may be needed . |
| 16 | Staff willing to work additional hours beyond those for which they are contracted should be identified . |
| 17 | The quota film also offered directors the chance to work outside box office constraints and experiment with the medium 's possibilities , as Hitchcock did with Number 17 ( 1932 ) , his offbeat haunted-house Gothic . |
| 18 | Many woman-centred psychologists evade this difficulty , because they choose to work outside psychology , in women 's studies , or outside academia , in practically-oriented women 's organizations . |
| 19 | When the airlines refused to negotiate on the claim , the pilots refused to work outside business hours from Aug. 18 . |
| 20 | Not only has the whole financial environment within which the institution has to work altered radically , but also the types of course offered have changed greatly in overall character . |
| 21 | Most companies have responded by raising the pension age for women , thus — in theory at least — obliging women to work extra years before becoming entitled to their full pension . |
| 22 | Well Yes I suppose that the thing is if she 's having to work extra hours , she ought to be paid for them . |
| 23 | In sardonic undertones , the guide- lines suggest ‘ the part-timer is unlikely to be happy given just the undesirable work that no one else wants to do ’ and ‘ should not be made to feel obliged to work extra hours . ’ |
| 24 | We all have to make Randolph feel welcome and we have to work extra hard tonight as it is very dark and windy , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The foreground software used ; Smart , Cardbox and Multiplan have all been found to work fine with memory resident software over many months of use . |
| 26 | However , Del Harris , the No. 1 , returning to action after a month out , had to work hard to avoid going the full distance with Sami Elopuro before winning 9-5 , 9-2 , 2-9 , 9-7 . |
| 27 | Mr Louis-Dreyfus will have to work hard to recover the company 's standing . |
| 28 | On the first lap , the Italian veteran was edged into fifth place by Jean Alesi 's Ferrari and , for the next 30 minutes , he had to work hard to win the place back . |
| 29 | If people are made aware that the better the service , the more they earn , then it really is an incentive to work hard and perform well , says Tony , 28 . |
| 30 | But if , as expected , he fails to gain reselection by his local party next month and carries out his threat to resign and stand against the official Labour candidate in a byelection , he will have to work hard to swing the hearts and minds of many Labour voters . |