Example sentences of "[was/were] work on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walkinshaw happened to mention that his motor group TWR Ltd were working on a deal with a retail garage business to form a company which would be floated off within five years . |
| 2 | On the other hand , for women not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given , and a considerably smaller share said they were working on a temporary basis because permanent work was not available . |
| 3 | The Nazis were working on a new advanced midget submarine , and had chosen a quiet Norwegian fiord as the testing ground . |
| 4 | In devising scores you were working on a mixture of recession and non-recession models . |
| 5 | For example , in 1990 the European Community and the Soviet Union were working on a joint nuclear safety programme which may result in the closing , or radical upgrading , of up to 25 Soviet nuclear reactors . |
| 6 | They were working on a suggestion , made by George Gamow ( once a student of Alexander Friedmann ) , that the early universe should have been very hot and dense , glowing white hot . |
| 7 | ‘ They were working on a weld when there was a leak . |
| 8 | He revealed that the EC and the Soviet Union were working on a joint nuclear safety programme , and he singled out energy production , transportation and the environment as possible areas of EC involvement in the Soviet economy . |
| 9 | Seven groups were working on a range of subjects including anti-dumping rules , market access , textiles , intellectual property , services and provisions for settling disputes , as well as agriculture . |
| 10 | So , quite rightly , they 've already had some support , and at that time , we did n't know how much money , you know , we were working on a different budget . |
| 11 | The steersman pointed downriver to where men were working on a scaffolding which stretched out across the river . |
| 12 | We were working on a case last year . ’ |
| 13 | In the Varasdin duet with Rudi , the second tenor , when they were working on a very simple foot routine , Therese caught her heel in the hem of her trousers and tripped . |
| 14 | The men were working on a maintenance gantry suspended beneath the bridge when the gantry collapsed throwing the men more than a hundred feet into the river below . |
| 15 | THE United Nations said that 20 Brazilian and 50 Russian workers had been kidnapped by opposition soldiers in eastern Angola , where they were working on a Congo River dam project . |
| 16 | erm I think we were working on a six week cycle |
| 17 | At the time of her death she was working on a novel . |
| 18 | At the time of her arrest , Dai Qing was working on a series of studies entitled Modern Chinese Intellectuals : From Liang Qichao to Fang Lizhi , in order , as she put it , to fill in some of the ‘ memory holes ’ of the history of the Chinese Communist Party . |
| 19 | Alix was working on a customer , a young cinder-head naked on his belly on her couch , lasers primed and crouching like birds of prey all around . |
| 20 | The slim volume was unearthedby Desmond Hawkins , a Hardy scholar , while he was working on a biography of his hero . |
| 21 | MY LORD JOHN by Georgette Heyer Arrow , £4.99 AT THE time of her death , Georgette Heyer was working on a large-scale historical sequence based on the character of John , Duke of Bedford , third son of Henry IV , and known to us primarily as the goody-goody prince of Shakespeare 's Henry IV . |
| 22 | Manley was aware that the high cost of modern anaesthetic apparatus was often prohibitive for hospitals in developing countries , and at the time of his death he was working on a prototype of an inexpensive , but effective ventilator for the Third World . |
| 23 | Quite by chance , and while he was working on a different problem , an Australian psychiatrist , J. F. Cade , discovered that , in guinea pigs , lithium salts made the brain less excitable . |
| 24 | Ironically , the most successful and varied stage of Hardy 's architectural career came under Crickmay between 1869 and 1872 , despite the fact that by this time he was working on a freelance basis while writing his first novels . |
| 25 | By 1902 Hardy was working on a project which owed its inspiration to boyhood memories of local stories and traditions of Napoleonic times , but had first presented itself as a literary theme in about 1875 . |
| 26 | She was working on a water-colour painting of Carewscourt . |
| 27 | From 1942 until January 1951 Teller was working on a concept called the ‘ classical ’ Super . |
| 28 | I was working on a street theatre mission in Bristol when the call came , getting in at 1.00 am after doing gospel presentations in the clubs and discotheques at night . |
| 29 | And , well , I was n't doing anything , so I just started writing songs again — but this time they were guitar-based songs and I was working on a Portastudio . |
| 30 | While Rubbing Along in Burmese was being printed , I was working on a bigger handbook for learning the language , under the title of Three Months ' Hard Labour . |