Example sentences of "and working [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 However , very few of the teachers even recognized the issue as one of professional concern at the start of the project , and most of the first two years was spent in establishing the educational importance of the issue and working towards the development of feasible intervention strategies .
2 But Benn took the fight to the Welshman in rounds three to six , brilliantly switching tactics and working to the body with lacerating left and right hooks .
3 Careful planning and the use of modern aids such as two way radios , and radar were making the job of the modern smuggler easier , and working to the disadvantage of the law enforcing teams .
4 For the last eight years , Messrs. Wright & Sons have had the contract for the maintenance and working of the North and South Staffordshire Railways . ’
5 Also promised are a new edition by Raniero Gnoli and Attilia Sironi of the monk Agostino dal Riccio 's Istoria delle pietre , a sixteenth-century treatise on the classification and working of the stones used in Renaissance Florence , and an exhaustive monograph by Giancarlo Ferraris — edited by Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios — on Pietro Piffetti , a highly-skilled eighteenth-century cabinet maker in the service of the House of Savoy ( L250,000 ) .
6 Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D.
7 This definition , according to Schumpeter , is a summary or basis of a revised theory of democracy which is much truer to life and at the same time salvages much of what the sponsors of democratic method really mean by this term' Schumpeter builds up a definition of the modern political system in the West , which he claims ‘ to try out on some of the more important features of the structure and working of the political engine in democratic countries ’ .
8 They bear on important constitutional and political questions ; cover the preparation , passage and implementation of statutes on a wide variety of subjects , such as property law , criminal law and bankruptcy ; deal with the administration of justice , including the organisation and working of the courts , the appointment of judges and magistrates , the regulation of legal aid and the legal profession ; and also relate to the process and substance of law reform , including the proceedings of numerous commissions and inquiries .
9 Finally , preliminary work is being undertaken on the structure and working of the real estate industry and the participation of ethnic minorities in the industry .
10 I saw women dealing with having kids and working at the same time and the kids were happy because of the closeness with their mother .
11 And working at the Shakespeare School of English does n't exactly hinder me in that direction .
12 So I was still in Berry then and working at the grammar school , so we had to walk across all three causeways for some time .
13 She was n't at all sure she wanted to be shown this short-cut through the woods , although Isabelle must have used it many times , when she was living at Les Hiboux and working at the château .
14 To be fair to be fair to him I think that he would erm he 's set his heart on going and working at the lawn mower place on the production line
15 This requires bravery — to go against the ‘ safety first ’ approach — but , paradoxically , it is possible under LMS , and working with the governing body , to structure schools and their management in ways very different from anything that would have been possible before .
16 Having spent years ensuring that mounts are cut accurately , and working with the straight lines of frames , I find straight lines just as pleasing in designs as curves , and I think an idea like this makes a pleasant change from the more popular floral compositions .
17 Of course I enjoy making and presenting food and working with the noblest of ingredients .
18 I have worked with a cook , a caretaker , a community policeman , a coach driver and an athletics coach — all of whom greatly enjoyed taking part in our drama and working with the children .
19 I asked had a very heated discussion erm where I si wanting to be having the careers teachers in and working with the forms etcetera and doing it , the er job wise and he would n't entertain at all
20 But th , we go get a er , report from the counselling agency on the type of , of er , question that 's been posed , and I would expect that that agency would be providing help and guidance , er , along the lines of suggesting and working with the individual on problems of the type , which I 'm sure you have at the front of your mind .
21 My daughter , Dr Ann Mitchell , who got her PhD at Heriot-Watt University in microbiology , spends much of her time in the Caquita Medio region of the Columbian Amazon , living and working with the Uitoto y Muinane Indians observing their healing techniques and categorising and collecting plant specimens .
22 ‘ We are taking it one step at a time and working with the police . ’
23 Well I 've got the window back in and working with the hand thing but I need drills to drill holes for the fittings and it really
24 effective writing skills , presentation skills and working with the media I 've got here Thursday twenty second nineteen ninety four
25 One of the things that concerns us is provision for people who are unemployed and we are we are speaking and working , speaking to and working with the Labour Group and the Labour Party on establishing a centre for people who are unemployed .
26 Staying in a small town in the north of Scotland and working on the local newspaper for the rest of his life suddenly seemed a dismal prospect .
27 IBM is now looking at different materials and working on the many technical problems of writing on , and reading , the memory .
28 Moreover , in Britain such work was distinctive of white collar status , programming being the domain of planners and production engineers , while in Germany blue collar craft workers were used and there were instances of rotation between programming in the office and working on the shop floor .
29 The Reverie of Poor Susan , cast in the form of a popular song and working on the association of ideas , is not a sentimental ballad but a study of the uprooted personality , forced to live in an unnatural environment .
30 It is also members of this group who have the strongest personal motivation for thinking about and working on the educational system , for they in the main are the teachers with young children of their own , at the beginning of their school careers .
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