Example sentences of "were working on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually joined the Ed Dubois design office where he met his current business partner Richard Lovett while they were working on two Admiral 's Cup yachts , Formidable and Promotion in 1982/83 . |
| 2 | The drama began after the man 's colleagues , who were working on neighbouring boats off the Southport coast , became concerned about their friend . |
| 3 | You might find architects who a few years ago were working on major projects , but are now making a living from loft extensions . ’ |
| 4 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 5 | More often , however , navigation engineers were at odds with drainage men , especially when they were working on existing rivers . |
| 6 | Lynn Officer , prosecuting , told the court the three owned their vehicles and were working on exclusive contracts for aggregates company Redlands at the time of the offences . |
| 7 | Lynn Officer , prosecuting , told the court the three owned their vehicles and were working on exclusive contracts for aggregates company Redlands at the time of the offences . |
| 8 | These professional barriers ensured that there would be little interaction even when the disciplines were working on parallel problems . |
| 9 | But even he notes that Maxwell would telephone ‘ as often as six times in an evening to staff who were working on political reports ’ . |
| 10 | Forty-four-year-old Robin Phelps from Brockweir was one of two men who died after the gantry they were working on collapsed and fell more than a hundred and fifty feet into the Severn in September ( 1990 ) nineteen-ninety . |
| 11 | The report also claimed that CCP study groups were working on detailed analyses of Gorbachev 's " revisionism " . |
| 12 | While they were working on this case there were some things which Nikos had better not know . |
| 13 | Fact recognition method it 's a piece of hardware and one of the things that 's clear actually is that er the Alexander worlds and all sorts of other people that were working on this do n't look at them in this way and they look at these as I say ram blocks . |
| 14 | The committee called in George Stephenson , Reid Clanny and Holmes who were working on safe lamps and ventilation . |