Example sentences of "[verb] been work [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost from the outset , the measure provoked fierce ethical debate , and while the 12 nations of the European Community continued to grapple with commercial aspects of biotechnology , the 26-nation Council of Europe has been working toward an international convention on human rights questions in bioethics . |
| 2 | She has been working as a nurse practitioner on a general surgical firm at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust since August . |
| 3 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
| 4 | Since his dismissal , Totten has been working as a radio journalist but yesterday admitted that only active participation in the game brought him genuine satisfaction . |
| 5 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
| 6 | San Francisco self-funded start-up Metron Technology has been working for a year and a half to develop some innovative , object-oriented , automated testing and performance debugging software for developing multi-processor and distributed Unix applications . |
| 7 | Sony has been working on a new Walkman which allows you to watch films as you go around . |
| 8 | According to a recent Hollywood Reporter piece , the Runt is currently labelless but has been working on a project which has been hailed as the first interactive album . |
| 9 | HP has also been getting close to Novell , and has been working on a NetWare implementation for its PA-RISC chip a move ahead of other players . |
| 10 | Over the last few months , SCOTVEC has been working on a series of extra additional assessments for the first batch of general SVQs , that is , for the awards in : |
| 11 | Langbaurgh School has been working on a series of projects relating to India and the fruits of their labours will be on display at the Southlands Centre , Ormesby Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 12 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 13 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a 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 rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 14 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 15 | I hope your mind has been working in an expansive way and that you have thought more about your future . |
| 16 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 17 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 18 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 19 | So , let's think about our objectives , first of all an objective , I might have come to Abbey Life to make money , last year , I might have been working in a factory , earning fifteen , twelve , fifteen thousand a year , and I might make my objective in my first year with Abbey Life to earn sixty thousand pounds . |
| 20 | A side tunnel branched up slightly into a chamber that must have been worked as an exploration into the vein . |
| 21 | For instance , the ground you are netting may have been worked by a fox , cat or dog just before your arrival on the scene and the rabbits sent scurrying for home . |
| 22 | Having been working on a drama spontaneously , the class ( either as a whole group , or in small groups ) are asked to consider the most important moment in the story so far , and to represent that moment as a still image . |
| 23 | Both Lower and Upper Mills appear to have been worked by a single miller , both presumably owned by the Prouts . |
| 24 | Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it . |
| 25 | By chance Rose had spoken to the right person as Taylor had been working with a hydrogen diffusion cloud chamber which is potentially well suited for such a task . |
| 26 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 27 | Suzannah Reddan had been working at a pub in north-west London for six months when she disappeared in March 1988 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Top stylist at the salon , Jeff Goodwin , had been working on a new idea called Le Flic and together with make-up artist Julie and a new wardrobe of clothes , successfully transformed Alice with these three beautiful styles . |
| 30 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |