Example sentences of "have [be] working [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years .
2 Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio .
3 She has been working as a nurse practitioner on a general surgical firm at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust since August .
4 Since his dismissal , Totten has been working as a radio journalist but yesterday admitted that only active participation in the game brought him genuine satisfaction .
5 It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint .
6 In March it was learned that there is in existence a French organisation which has been working towards the provision of a water supply to the village of Atea and the construction of a better quality road to the village than had previously existed .
7 San Francisco self-funded start-up Metron Technology has been working for a year and a half to develop some innovative , object-oriented , automated testing and performance debugging software for developing multi-processor and distributed Unix applications .
8 An impressive madame , wife of the owner , stands continuously in the corner of the restaurant , surveying every aspect of the culinary stage management , and the sommelier has been working with the family for 38 years .
9 At the application level , Unisys has been working with the database companies on distributed technology , including lock management .
10 Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all .
11 HP has also been getting close to Novell , and has been working on a NetWare implementation for its PA-RISC chip a move ahead of other players .
12 According to a recent Hollywood Reporter piece , the Runt is currently labelless but has been working on a project which has been hailed as the first interactive album .
13 Over the last few months , SCOTVEC has been working on a series of extra additional assessments for the first batch of general SVQs , that is , for the awards in :
14 Langbaurgh School has been working on a series of projects relating to India and the fruits of their labours will be on display at the Southlands Centre , Ormesby Road , Middlesbrough .
15 Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter .
16 Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all .
17 Professor Mott , who has been working on the cancers of childhood for almost 20 years , is the new Professor of Paediatric Oncology .
18 These ‘ environmentally-friendly ’ studios will be funded by a grant from the Kress Foundation and will be co-ordinated by the Swiss conservator Luca Bonetti who has been working on the design with the Italian team of Mario and Dario Bellini .
19 The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it .
20 Echo has been working on the technology for three years with a variety of minicomputer architectures .
21 A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry .
22 In fact Michael has been working on the province for nearly 30 years .
23 A committee of three ministers — Roger Freeman ( transport ) , Francis Maude ( Treasury ) and John Redwood ( trade and industry ) — has been working on the railway sell-off ; and the group drafting the Tory election manifesto has been trying to distil the trio 's ideas into an appetising few paragraphs .
24 Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time .
25 Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more .
26 ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said .
27 When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system .
28 It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in .
29 I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery .
30 Dot knew from their voices that those two young men who 'd been working in the fields must be prisoners .
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