Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] work [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost from the outset , the measure provoked fierce ethical debate , and while the 12 nations of the European Community continued to grapple with commercial aspects of biotechnology , the 26-nation Council of Europe has been working toward an international convention on human rights questions in bioethics . |
| 2 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based company has been working over the last few months to staff up a new business unit to concentrate on low-end multi-processors , an area it feels offers great potential . |
| 3 | He has been working at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow since 1980 , but has now decided to move to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the new year . |
| 4 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 5 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 6 | Sony has been working on a new Walkman which allows you to watch films as you go around . |
| 7 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 8 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 9 | I hope your mind has been working in an expansive way and that you have thought more about your future . |
| 10 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 11 | Since the 1880s the mill has been worked by the White family , who still run it today . |