Example sentences of "work has been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A questionnaire concerned with the structure of the labour force , work conditions and health and safety at work has been sent to local branches of every trade union in Norwich and the surrounding area , through the trade union representatives ; this survey provides valuable information on employment and conditions of work , as well as on rates of unionisation .
2 This work has been hampered by economic problems , work pressure on staff , often doing more than one job , and logistical problems with supply and distribution of books and materials .
3 More work has been done on cross-hole seismic tomographic systems in collaboration with CEDEX : a high-power spark source and matched active receivers are now available for use in difficult environments .
4 Experimental work has been done on other human joints but there is nothing which tells us about , for example , the impedance of the wrist .
5 It has been extensively investigated for large mammals ( Brain , 1958 , 1974 , 1981 ; Voorhies , 1969 ; Sutcliff , 1970 ; Behrensmeyer , 1975 ; Klein , 1975 ; Hill , 1975 ; Shipman , 1977 , 1983a ; Behrensmeyer & Hill , 1980 ; Binford , 1981 ) , but little work has been done on small mammals .
6 the formula assumes that at any er as as of the first of April , half the work has been done on all erm files then outstanding , we 've gone into this before , where er we think that that 's er er a correct statistical way of erm dealing with things , if therefore you cut the number of er files which are going in , then erm , er I take it if you 're cutting the number of stage two files which are being passed over , and that 's the area where you 're most fighting at er at time we hope , and it has a very , very considerable impact on workload for next year .
7 Extensive numerical work has been done on turbulent flows .
8 Yet little systematic work has been done on such alternative formats , nor on the religious symbols employed by them .
9 There is , admittedly , a long tradition both in linguistics and in literary studies of analysing the works of individual writers , particularly literary writers , but relatively little work has been done on such areas of text studies as the conventions of non-literary writing within a community or the preferred patterns of organization in different types of discourse .
10 Some work has been done on this topic in recent years , but this study will differ from previous approaches by linking the unemployment flows much more closely to the other flows in the labour market .
11 Little sociological work has been done on Scottish agriculture ; hardly any of it on large-scale capitalist agriculture which would permit comparisons with English , Canadian and American investigations .
12 What is surprising is that so few feminist researchers in the sociology of education have chosen to look at higher education , when so much work has been done on secondary education and , to a lesser extent , on primary education .
13 Much of the Committee and Department 's work has been done through joint bodies such as the JCT and the NJCC , CIC and BPIC , and the Architect 's Council of Europe , and this collaborative activity is expected to grown .
14 Follow up geophysical work has been done at selected sites to assess what water resources are actually present .
15 Very little work has been done in this field but there has been sufficient to reveal that the refinement of economic theory ( especially in terms of mathematical sophistication ) is akin to fashioning scalpels to cut through jungle when it comes to the real world of policy-making [ Graham , 1975 ] .
16 Some experimental work has been done in this area , but not much ; examples can be found in the papers by Becker and Huschens ( 1991 ) , Kogut and Phillips ( 1991 ) , Moon and Keasey ( 1991 ) , Thistle , Battalio , and Kagel ( 1991 ) , and Vossebein and Tietz ( 1990 ) .
17 A great deal of work has been done in academic and business schools on the track record of success of those who have diversified totally outside their own fields of experience .
18 To date , some work has been done in several areas including planning and learning and induction .
19 Much work has been undertaken on this aircraft and it has clearly got into the blood of those at PE , so much so that should the SAAF Museum at Swartkop , near Pretoria , ever wish to move there , they would find a fearsome fight on their hands !
20 Much work has been undertaken in special ad hoc policy reviews and in long-term studies , but it has become increasingly clear that the public expenditure survey system should be further strengthened .
21 Similar work has been undertaken by regional organisations working in the legal field .
22 The detailed work has been undertaken by two subgroups , also multi agency and with practitioner involvement .
23 By the turn of the present century , the canal — owned then by the Great Western Railway — had become unnavigable , and the locks fell into dereliction , but much restoration work has been undertaken by enthusiastic volunteers in recent years .
24 The significance of attitude to work has been highlighted by numerous studies .
25 While the psychological and biological theories focus their explanations on the person 's depressive predisposition , important recent work has been conducted on prevailing environmental factors which bring the psychological factors into play and cause the depression to become manifest .
26 The TMI accident effectively destroyed this relative complacency , and throughout the world a great deal of analytical and experimental work has been conducted on small LOCAs .
27 However , as the company 's research work has been presented in European seminars recently , BP has stressed the need for the involvement of the industry as a whole in sharing responsibility for scale-up and operation .
28 So erm can you tell us what proportion of the work erm had been completed before prices were fixed erm for those packages that have been an and also what proportion of the work has been completed on those packages yet to be priced .
29 So far , apart from his basic research in black burnished wares ( 1973 ) , his work has been confined to peripheral aspects such as imported amphorae ( 1971 ) and the Malvernian wares ( 1968a and 1968b ) which may be important for future work on the major salt extraction at Droitwich .
30 Some of this work has been informed from personal experience either because of being physically challenged or from having worked as a therapist , as an artist in residence within a hospital complex , in a mental institution , or has a counsellor in a hospice .
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