Example sentences of "[adv] working [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A piece of ecological history that remains to be fully researched was the decision by a number of individuals , many apparently working in isolation from each other , to establish , like Darwin , permanent plots within which the fate of individual plants could be recorded over time .
2 The latter then binds to an InsP 3 receptor ( IP 3 R ) to mobilize stored calcium and to promote an influx of external calcium , perhaps working in conjunction with InsP 4 ( refs 9 , 10 ) .
3 A contractor could use the actual performance when not working under claim conditions to establish what should have been foreseeable .
4 In the primary or literal sense of the words it was , but since the machine was not working under power and was only in temporary motion for necessary adjustment , the House of Lords chose to give the words the secondary meaning of ‘ mechanical propulsion . ’
5 BRIGHT economic schemes have a habit of not working in South America .
6 They 're not working in accordance with that procedure .
7 The situation is much easier if the teacher is not working in isolation , but is part of a planned and coordinated programme .
8 However , as with every part of the curriculum , there is a wider perspective to be taken into account , and that is the fact that there is a limit on what an individual teacher can achieve if he or she is not working in harmony with the rest of the school .
9 People who challenge the assumption that much of what a house officer does could be done just as well by someone without a medical qualification may be surprised to learn that in Taunton and Cheltenham nurse practitioners are already working as house officers on two surgical firms ( box ) .
10 They are pushing at an open door , we in the industry are already working for change .
11 The company is already working on MS-DOS 7 , tentatively planned for launch in the middle of 1994 .
12 Some are already working on contingency plans to make sure patients in the North-East are referred for treatment .
13 Use a string as a guide to accurate shaping at the beginning of the season , thereafter working by eye .
14 This is a blue-blood organisation , very keen on people with style , contacts and a good record in industry usually working for prestige , high-quality organisations .
15 ‘ And while you 're still working at Number 10 , a touch of Caesar 's wife might be appropriate . ’
16 In due course , several of the ex-L.U.T. cars were renumbered in the 2000s , as though still working as part of that fleet .
17 Money was bad , but he was still working for Liberty and picked up work on Pageant magazine .
18 This wreck was the Small Gains , which had gone down more than twenty-live years before , when hundreds of barges were still working under sail .
19 Now , with only two pits still working in South Wales , the previously endless supply of forwards has finally dried up .
20 In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’
21 I do , I er , well I presume he 's still working in fact , with this er with the bank .
22 Hospitals are always working at near-capacity , so anything that upsets the balance automatically causes more strain . ’
23 But the failings are not a reason for abandoning a system which is based upon very reasonable principles , although not always working in practice .
24 IBM is also working with Apple on Bento , Apple 's format for identifying and interchanging objects , and is looking at using the two developments together .
25 The Company is also working towards accreditation with the Institution of Electrical Engineers .
26 Family health services authorities have spent considerable effort defining not only a role in purchasing primary care but also working in tandem with district health authorities to begin discussions about extending purchasing across the interface between primary and secondary care .
27 Instead she said , ‘ David tells me you are also working in industry .
28 Billy Hamilton , who retired from Rentokil several years ago , [ formerly working with Pest Control in Belfast and still collecting debts for the company ] has become one of the first people in Northern Ireland to be presented with a commemorative medal from the Soviet authorities .
29 Stevens , now working for Capital Radio as a match summariser , said : ‘ I think it is very worrying for football if this becomes a trend .
30 Now working with coach Nauder van Zyl , Zola is reportedly looking forward to again competing at international level , once the boycott on sporting contact with South Africa is lifted .
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