Example sentences of "working on this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working on this delusion , they then feel either excited and act like silly children or confused and act like silly children . |
| 2 | A detailed inventory of Bruce 's day followed , and McLeish understood that having Catherine Crane working on this case had rattled Bruce in several ways . |
| 3 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 4 | Ford is working on this concept as part of its two-stroke engine programme . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 6 | Both STC and Plessey are working on this technology , for use in submarine telephone fibre , but the current best bet for domestic cable is a wavelength of around 0.8 micrometres . |
| 7 | Nearly two hundred years ago , Hahnemann considered that the treatment of chronic illness was the greatest challenge to medicine and he spent many years of his life working on this problem . |
| 8 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 9 | When worn battened down without a hat , the hood really needs some sort of volume adjuster at the back , or else the soft peak reduced visibility dramatically ( Lowe say they are working on this ) . |
| 10 | FIGURE 2 It soon became apparent when I started working on this quick landscape sketch that the Polychromos Pastels are equally well suited to a more painterly method of handling too |
| 11 | But the sheer effort required to gather and analyse data systematically , let alone the lobbying activities to initiate change , often exceeds the capacity of the groups working on this issue . |
| 12 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 13 | After the experience of working on this table I would say that this is absolute rot . |
| 14 | At the time of writing they are still working on this , although they no longer expect an immediate or easy solution . |
| 15 | Do you realise the entire police force is working on this ? |
| 16 | ‘ It would be very supportive to have the federal laboratories working on this issue ’ , he says . |
| 17 | We also use the survey to examine the significance of small establishments as employers of temporary workers and the regional distribution of temporary employment , to give the personal characteristics of temporary workers — concentrating on their sex , age and marital status — and to discuss some of the reasons given by temporary workers for working on this basis . |
| 18 | The short average duration of all spells of working with an agency is also consistent with the picture of a large number of persons working on this basis for very brief periods only . |
| 19 | Our impression is that almost all contract computer staff are voluntarily working on this basis . |
| 20 | First , the population of contract computer staff is much smaller than that of agency secretarial/office workers and , insofar as there are fewer people working on this basis for a very short term or occasional basis , has a much higher stability of membership . |
| 21 | In lower-skilled and unskilled jobs , and in areas of higher unemployment , the casual labour force in hotels and catering includes people working on this basis because they are unable to find any other job . |
| 22 | Using LFS data , Table 7.1 shows that temporary workers in semi- and lower skilled industrial occupations are more likely to be working on this basis because they do not want permanent jobs . |
| 23 | There was a clear and direct relationship between the level of unemployment in the region and the proportion of temporary workers working on this basis " involuntarily " [ see Table 4.1 ] . |
| 24 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 25 | One persistent question that intrigued those working on this study during the past four years was , ‘ Why do small farmers continue in agriculture when they achieve such small financial rewards for considerable expenditure of effort ? ’ |
| 26 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 27 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 28 | The men working on this pumping station would often work 114 hours in a week , for a wage of 3 3/4d per hour , maintaining a regular output of 7 1/2 to 9 million gallons per week . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you have your own men working on this ? ’ asked Taheb . |
| 30 | ‘ I can not stop working on this just because it is dangerous . |