Example sentences of "work have [been] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exhibition indicates that Tillyer 's work has been moving away from Hitchens and closer to American landscape-abstractionists , notably Helen Frankenthaler . |
| 2 | A new guide on the storage and handling of flammable solids at work has been prepared jointly by the HSE , the Home Office and the Scottish Office . |
| 3 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 4 | This section has concentrated so far on metals , reflecting the interest in metal patinas , but other materials also develop distinctive surfaces over time and some work has been done both by fakers to replicate them and investigators to differentiate the fake from the genuine . |
| 5 | A great deal of technological work has been done recently on the seasoning of wood , and safe accelerated drying schedules have been worked out for all kinds and dimensions of timber . |
| 6 | His work has been exhibited regularly at the New English Art Club , the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and Royal Watercolour Society . |
| 7 | A completely new , and as yet untitled , work has been created specifically for the spacious Sackler Octagon . |
| 8 | Attempts have been made to distinguish predation from scavenging ( Binford , 1981 ; Bunn , 1982 ; Shipman , 1983b , 1986 ) , but this work has been based entirely on analysis of large mammals ( Behrensmeyer , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 10 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 11 | For the last four years work has been going on behind the scenes and while over six million passengers per annum used the terminal during this project , few were aware of what was happening . |
| 12 | Work has been going on in Oxford , partly funded by the Trust , to understand more about meningitis , why and how it can kill ; exactly what the founders in Stroud wanted in the panicky days of 1986 . |
| 13 | Tennis Courts Considerable work has been carried out to the pavilion but no work has been undertaken on the playing surface or the fencing . |
| 14 | Tennis Courts Considerable work has been carried out to the pavilion but no work has been undertaken on the playing surface or the fencing . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if there are currently any contracts with the Atomic Energy Authority for research into the fabrication of weapons components using plutonium ; and whether any such work has been carried out at Harwell . |
| 16 | Restoration work has been carried out on two towers in Surrey . |
| 17 | Less work has been carried out on copper , but the little that has ( e.g. Manser 1977 , pp. 22–3 ) indicates a very wide range of composition , matched by the range found in Roman copper alloys which may suggest extensive use of scrap such as that found in bags accompanying skeletons ( Myres 1978 ) . |
| 18 | The path now follows Fleet Dyke until a corner where new edging work has been carried out on the sides of the bank . |
| 19 | Over the last few years work has been carried out on using machine readable dictionaries as a source of linguistic knowledge ( Amsler , 1981 ) , ( Boguraev & Briscoe , 1987 ) — thereby enabling the production of a large vocabulary lexicon for considerably less effort than was previously required . |
| 20 | Considerable work has been carried out on methods for analysing and modelling individual time series of observations . |
| 21 | A great deal of valuable work has been carried out on the interview itself . |
| 22 | Species develop , it is argued , specific forms of innate behaviours and drives which are geared towards survival and reproduction and , while much of this work has been carried out on non-human species , it has indeed been applied directly to the human animal : Desmond Morris 's ‘ naked ape ’ . |
| 23 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 24 | Dr Shimada 's work has been carried out under the aegis of the Peruvian government , sponsored by the Shibusawa Ethnological Foundation of Tokyo . |
| 25 | Some work has been carried out towards making this possible . |
| 26 | The work has been carried out through a rolling programme covering 19 occupational areas and the results are published in the official journal of the EC . |
| 27 | As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition . |
| 28 | This work has been carried out by water authorities , internal drainage boards , and many councils , in part to reduce flooding of roads and houses , but largely to increase farm yields . |
| 29 | In Rome the work has been carried out by the Istituto Centrale del Restauro . |
| 30 | Specifically in terms of child protection , the best-known British work has been carried out by Hallett and Stevenson ( 1980 ) . |