Example sentences of "[noun] have been working on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Echo has been working on the technology for three years with a variety of minicomputer architectures . |
| 2 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 3 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 4 | Colour specialists in Louisville have been working on the changes for three years , using information pulled in from dealers and regional sales people . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 7 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 8 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 9 | Your boy 's been working on it . |
| 10 | While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain . |
| 11 | In Wales there is a nationally agreed pupil profile ; and many groups of schools or Local Authorities in England have been working on forms of profiling that would be objective and intelligible . |
| 12 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 13 | Graham had been working on his yacht , the Sea Eagle , during a break on a long sailing trip , when he suffered an electric shock . |
| 14 | Both accounts demonstrate that , until Stanislav Ulam 's observation that X-rays could be used to propagate an instant fusion reaction , Teller had been working on a fundamentally impractical design . |
| 15 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 16 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 17 | A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry . |
| 18 | Mr Eaton and colleague Ron Siddle had been working on sea fasteners , fixed to the barge to stop the module moving . |
| 19 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 20 | For the last month 30 police officers have been working on the case full time . |
| 21 | Well we 're looking at a particular condition of the lung that affects patients in intensive care ; it 's a disease a bit like pneumonia , it 's called the adult respiratory distress syndrome , and it 's a disease that we believe is associated with a lot of fluid in the lung , and a compatriot of mine , Dr Young , and Dr McQuillam have been working on a research that er has asked the question — ‘ if we reduce the amount of fluid in the lung , do these patients get better and get better quicker ’ . |
| 22 | With the University of California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena , Unisys has been working on Intel-based five by five Hypercube hubs , which can be clustered together , either in-cabinet or externally , connected through JPL 's Hyperswitch firmware and front-ended by a serial fibre optic link . |
| 23 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 24 | Though it did not appear until relatively late in his life , Locke had been working on the Essay since about 1660 . |
| 25 | Maybe Vinnie has been working on his own . |
| 26 | A little company in Golden , Colorado has been working on its own version of Unix for the last year and half , this one called Usix . |
| 27 | Following on from his recent installations , the Argentinean artist has been working on moveable objects consisting of a wooden surface , on which he draws in graphite or coloured pastels , and a superimposed sheet of lead some distance from the base . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 30 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |