Example sentences of "have [be] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is a sharp decline from the 73.5p at which they were suspended and reflects the financial havoc which has been wrought on the company 's accounts as a consequence of the problems at its ISC Technologies subsidiary . |
| 2 | Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years . |
| 3 | In March it was learned that there is in existence a French organisation which has been working towards the provision of a water supply to the village of Atea and the construction of a better quality road to the village than had previously existed . |
| 4 | An impressive madame , wife of the owner , stands continuously in the corner of the restaurant , surveying every aspect of the culinary stage management , and the sommelier has been working with the family for 38 years . |
| 5 | At the application level , Unisys has been working with the database companies on distributed technology , including lock management . |
| 6 | Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter . |
| 7 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 8 | Professor Mott , who has been working on the cancers of childhood for almost 20 years , is the new Professor of Paediatric Oncology . |
| 9 | These ‘ environmentally-friendly ’ studios will be funded by a grant from the Kress Foundation and will be co-ordinated by the Swiss conservator Luca Bonetti who has been working on the design with the Italian team of Mario and Dario Bellini . |
| 10 | The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it . |
| 11 | Echo has been working on the technology for three years with a variety of minicomputer architectures . |
| 12 | A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry . |
| 13 | In fact Michael has been working on the province for nearly 30 years . |
| 14 | A committee of three ministers — Roger Freeman ( transport ) , Francis Maude ( Treasury ) and John Redwood ( trade and industry ) — has been working on the railway sell-off ; and the group drafting the Tory election manifesto has been trying to distil the trio 's ideas into an appetising few paragraphs . |
| 15 | Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time . |
| 16 | Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more . |
| 17 | Chalcopyrite , with quartz , pyrite , arsenopyrite and some magnetite and Co-Ni-As sulphides , has been worked in the Coniston area . |
| 18 | Lead and antimony vein mineralisation , with silver-rich galena and reported gold values , has been worked in the Wadebridge area of north Devon ( Dines , 1956 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 20 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 21 | Dot knew from their voices that those two young men who 'd been working in the fields must be prisoners . |
| 22 | A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade . |
| 23 | He must have been working on the paper about the same time as he was writing the papers of Totem and Taboo , or just afterwards . |
| 24 | It is true that the two eldest sons , William 19 or 20 , and Thomas 16 or 17 , might have been working in the mine as subsidiary members of a gang and are unrecorded in accounts . |
| 25 | Well then let's fill in April , then I think we should actually make sure that we 're comfortable that is essential and th that there is overtime being worked there that could n't have be worked in the week . |
| 26 | The heaviest copper head from Ife weighs almost 7 kg so the Ife smiths seem to have been working at the limits of this technique . |
| 27 | ‘ Mr C S Jones ( Lab ) , Leicester NW — Will the Government now publish the report on which Mr S J L Summerchild is known to have been working at the time of his death ? — The report has already been published as Cmnd. 4078 . ’ |
| 28 | Great changes had been wrought by the eruption . |
| 29 | Two of them were real stunners John Davies rocketing out of a rolling maul 20 metres from the line to score , and then Stuart Davies crossing a Llewellyn line-out take 15 metres out after it had been worked to the line . |
| 30 | He was clad in the same white coveralls as the half-dozen policemen who had been working over the room , like a coven of wraiths . |