Example sentences of "[adv] a working [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to our reconnaissance , this was also to be very much a working patrol . |
| 2 | In reality it was also very much a working woman 's disease , but this fact was generally ignored by physicians . |
| 3 | Perhaps a working demonstration might highlight something I 'm trying to . |
| 4 | As you know I mean I 'm only a working man |
| 5 | It 's not only a working instrument but the kind of guitar that you feel like picking up and playing at any time ; when it 's not wowing the punters it will probably spend its time lying on the sofa permanently on call . |
| 6 | Supposing , against the odds , the Tories scrape home , or cobble together a working majority , the day-after rally could be spectacular . |
| 7 | If you start throwing fragments of aeroplanes into heaps , the odds of your happening to hit upon exactly the same arrangement of junk twice are just about as low as the odds of your throwing together a working airliner . |
| 8 | TAG was taking steps to bring together a working party to design an appropriate scheme . |
| 9 | The modern surveyor involved in administering building contracts needs more than just a working knowledge of its terms — he needs a detailed legal appreciation . |
| 10 | Like I say , it 's just a working title . |
| 11 | Or Fergie did when she hopped in and out of cars wearing Honest-Jill-Ordinary leggings and sweatshirts which said , ‘ Hey , forget Bali , I 'm just a working mum like you ! ’ |
| 12 | and she was just a working girl , you know , and it was a worry to her as well . |
| 13 | He thought he was just a working actor . |
| 14 | The Head of Department felt that his syllabus is not a working document , but was there as a guide to the members of his department . |
| 15 | If there 's already a working phone line at your new address , and you arrange to take over the service on the same day as the old customer disconnects , it will be re-connected free of charge . |
| 16 | Sheffield-born and daughter of a cutlery master , she was herself notably active , running an allotment and still a working cutler : a woman with ‘ plenty of initiative and business capacity . |
| 17 | There is a Victorian farmyard , complete with farm implements , a working forge and a display of butter churns , pats and stamps from the turn of the century , when Boscobel was still a working farm . |
| 18 | Many fail to realise that , due to obvious lack of water for motive power , it was ever a working mill . |
| 19 | This circuit is meant to be adapted to your specific needs , so rather than call it ‘ The Lakeland Way ’ or anything as horrendous as that , I would rather call it something antiquated like : ‘ Notes Towards a Considered Circular Pedestrian Peregrination Amongst some of the Major Fells and Dales of the County of Cumbria ’ , but it is hardly a working title . |
| 20 | ABOVE LEFT : Greens Mill at Upton St Leonards was once a working corn mill but is now derelict . |
| 21 | This 17th-century house was once a working mill , powered by two enormous water-wheels — one wheel alone was twenty-four feet high . |
| 22 | It was once a working forge and today brims with character and antiques . |
| 23 | There is also a working model of a fairground , based on Northallerton-based Crows fair and made by Robert Middleton of Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | Beatrice Webb recorded that she had been told by both a working class male school attendance officer and by the female manager of a block of ‘ model dwellings ’ that working class women were not able to talk to their husbands , having little in their heads but household details . |
| 25 | Genuine acceptance of the spirit and implications of Vatican II can probably best be seen in the use of a ‘ people of God ’ ecclesiology , in a stress upon both a working collegiality and the genuine centrality of the Eucharist within the Church , especially the local church , in the warm recognition of the values of pluralism and freedom within and between ‘ particular churches ’ as within human society generally , and in a commitment to work and find Christian holiness within the struggle for justice and peace in solidarity with the poor . |
| 26 | The failure to set up a working system for filing and recovering information shows how defective the organization of the Secretary 's office still was at the end of the Tudor period . |
| 27 | The Periodical Publishers Association and Newspaper Society have already set up a working committee to campaign against the imposition of VAT on magazines and newspapers . |
| 28 | On Sunday the national executive committee firmly rejected the proposal to set up a working party to study electoral reform . |
| 29 | Furthermore , as some of you here know , the diocese of Bath and Wells set up a working party in 1986 to set out our own policy . |
| 30 | We will set up a working party to examine what more can be done to protect the police and members of other emergency services from assault . |