Example sentences of "had been working [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Jigme Singye Wangchuck speaking in New Delhi on his arrival in India on Sept. 9 for a four-day official visit , said that he did not consider a monarchy to be the best system of government and that he had been working towards the greater democratization of his country . |
| 2 | He had been working since the 1820s on his theory that ‘ grand geometrical lines ’ had been laid out in ancient times across the country and that these were indicated by old boundaries and markers . |
| 3 | Mgr José Cardoso Sobrinho , a conservative who had replaced Câmara when the latter retired in 1984 , called a halt to church involvement in human rights work in the archdiocese ; on Dec. 7 , 1989 , he dissolved a justice and peace committee which had been working with the poor , while on Dec. 14 eight priests , two of them French , were ordered to leave the diocese immediately . |
| 4 | Grossbancher , an executive with the French company Bouygues Offshore , had been working with the Angolan state oil company Sonangol . |
| 5 | But she said Lilian had been working at the old people 's home just down the road . |
| 6 | Top stylist at the salon , Jeff Goodwin , had been working on a new idea called Le Flic and together with make-up artist Julie and a new wardrobe of clothes , successfully transformed Alice with these three beautiful styles . |
| 7 | He had been working on a new series for BBC Radio 2 which is due to be broadcast next spring . |
| 8 | He was a friend of Mark 's — an actor friend , who had been working on the same film as Mark when he had died . |
| 9 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 10 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 11 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 12 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 13 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |
| 14 | Long before Sartre developed his own form of Marxist-Hegelian history , Bachelard had been working in a critical relation to Hegelian historicism . |
| 15 | Glasgow University 's recently published study of homelessness among the young in Scotland simply highlights the facts which have been known to anyone who had been working in the social security system in whatever capacity for a number of years . |