Example sentences of "[noun pl] were work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 2 | Those whose husbands were working in the area in reserved occupations were fortunate indeed . |
| 3 | Emergency teams were working round the clock to make the homes secure but the work was not finished until a week after the keys went missing . |
| 4 | Most of the high technology services firms were working at the frontier of computer usage , developing new software packages or sophisticated interactive training models for business . |
| 5 | How many officers were working on the case at the height of its investigation ? |
| 6 | One person stated that the government was unwilling to evaluate itself about how its policies were working on the ground . |
| 7 | In Aspdin 's day cement manufacture was undergoing relatively rapid development and many experimenters were working in the field . |
| 8 | Indeed these figures made even sorrier reading for the Conservatives when one realised that demographic shifts were working in the Government 's favour . |
| 9 | As the teachers all had full-time commitments outside the project , they were only able to meet when the pupils were working on the project . |
| 10 | By Thursday the finding of the clothes was being linked with the Scapegoat ritual , giving the story an angle , and on Friday three reporters were working through the town 's pubs , picking up local colour and gossip . |
| 11 | There seems little doubt that all over the country inventive minds were working on the problem in different ways but the solution came in an unusual fashion . |
| 12 | The three men were working on the bridge when a cradle supporting them collapsed ; nineteen year old Mark Seaton from Chepstow in Gwent says he knows he 's lucky but what he feels most is anger . |
| 13 | 3 men were working on the gantry when it fell from beneath the Severn Bridge in September 1990 . |
| 14 | The Industrial Revolution , which created a vast demand for urban housing , made Welsh slate an almost universal roofing material , and by the middle of the nineteenth century some 16,000 men were working in the quarries , producing roofing slates called ‘ duchesses ’ and ‘ countesses ’ , among other titled ladies , according to their size . |
| 15 | The two ADF receivers were working in the ADF mode at the time of the crash , though the No 1 unit may have been subject to intermittent electrical interruptions due to poorly soldered joints . |