Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] be working " in BNC.

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1 Brief as it was , the contact was sufficient to trigger a whole wealth of signals she was working desperately hard to suppress .
2 The relationships you build up with our clients and the advertisers , with the clients you 're working in their own er their offices for three weeks so you get to know people .
3 Some people are more aware of the goals they are working towards than others and subsequently have a greater sense of direction and purpose .
4 He guessed that these effects might be due to intoxication by one of the compounds he was working with , and confirmed his idea by deliberate experiment .
5 I blamed my sites , my machine , and myself for this , but never really believed that the areas I was working had been totally worked-out .
6 Miliutin and other committed reformers had hoped to assign peasants the areas they were working already , but in the event they lost about 20 per cent of the land they had been using .
7 Keener feels that his lack of technical background is a distinct advantage ; it also means that he sets a large amount of trust in the engineers he is working with .
8 Pack some clothes , and whatever you need to finish the illustrations you 're working on at the moment , then we 'll leave . ’
9 The hours she was working , she was left with little time for popping across the corridor for coffee and a chat , let alone for socialising .
10 It paid off — ‘ I actually got a job , then another , and within two years I was working every day . ’
11 Sometimes they carried out the work at the Hankses ' cottage and occasionally at the farm , but so tired was Seb as a result of the long days he was working that twice he fell asleep while Carrie was writing .
12 In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release .
13 There are projects we 're working on in Santa Barbara that — ’
14 Well , the paintings I 'm working on just now are slightly more colourful .
15 Along along the bottom time if time is one of the things you 're working with it just about always goes along the bottom .
16 ‘ How is this going to reconcile with that ? ’ he asks a 17 year old , pointing to the two figures she is working on .
17 Partnerships in quality between SCOTVEC and centres — and high-currency awards for our candidates — are the aims we are working towards .
18 Aye and mind the lasses they used to play a lot with instead of marbles they were working with .
19 So these are just some of the ways we 're working to empower the voluntary sector as I myself s as I said earlier , this is one of the key focus areas for the nineties .
20 It 's one of the theories we 're working on .
21 Its networking stuff is good , and cheap , but the network management software and E-mail technologies it 's working on are difficult and expensive .
22 hours he was working er from th starting at eight in the morning .
23 In devising scores you were working on a mixture of recession and non-recession models .
24 Notice that the highest common factor can be divided into the numbers we are working with , so it is a small number in most cases .
25 Social workers must recognise , therefore , that in racist societies they are working with a potentially vulnerable group .
26 The social workers and foster mothers who have worked with children abused in this way also have much to tell us , as Bea Campbell 's recent Channel 4 film demonstrated : not least that they too lived in fear whilst trying to discover what had happened to the children they were working with .
27 The papers you are working on are fairly heavy and , unless you are flooding the paper with watercolour , should stand up to washes without the need for stretching .
28 So I think I 'm asking for just a bit more , more talks and where there is a , a home or homes in a rural area that may be the only home in that area , so it is available to local people that Social Services come in and there in an understanding in planning authorities first and now the actual criteria we 're working on because most local people will think that home is for local people .
29 With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention .
30 It was light and clean , and although the parts she was working on were tiny , Anne was neat and dextrous and found the tasks easy .
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