Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] work [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the estimated 1,500 journeymen and 1,200 apprentices working as printers ( pressmen and compositors combined ) in Scotland in the 1850s , rather more than half were working in the book and jobbing section of the trade , the rest in newspaper offices . " |
| 2 | She says the nearest thing she 's done to this was working in a scouts ' gang show . |
| 3 | The Faithful was working off the Yorkshire coast last November when it was in a collision with a Bridlington trawler and almost sunk . |
| 4 | On the morning of 9 January 19571 was working at the Treasury when a message was delivered summoning me to Number 10 at 3 o'clock . |
| 5 | These were working for a pay of from 9d. a day to 2/6 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The new Public Appointments Unit set up in 1975 to revivify the List was run by Jonathan Charkham , a well-heeled nomad who had begun his career as a barrister , went into industry , and by the late eighties was working for the Bank of England . |
| 8 | At any one time five were working in the Criminal Division and in the Queen 's Bench Divisional Court . |
| 9 | His father , Charles Stuart , was born in Paisley , near Glasgow , and by 1858 was working as a pattern-maker in Halifax ; his mother , Ann Ackroyd ( the given spelling of his middle name ) , was the daughter of Jonathan Ackroyd , a worsted cloth weaver of Luddenden near Halifax . |
| 10 | In 61 education nurseries catering for children with special needs surveyed by the Department of Education and Science ( 1983 ) less than one-third were working to a statement of intent about the curriculum . |
| 11 | that was working on the car ? |
| 12 | Metzinger and Delaunay had exhibited portraits of each other at the Salon d'Automne of 1906 , when both were working in a Neo-Impressionist idiom , and by 1907 Delaunay had met Léger and Le Fauconnier as well . |