Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [be] working [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again .
2 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 . ’
3 Caersws station , Llanidloes road level crossing and one crossing up near Criccieth remain semaphore operated ; Machynlleth new station plus staff facilities very nice — old station disintegrating ; Aberystwyth station yard tidied up after several interesting fires but station is on the whole hardly inspiring and platform staff have been working under considerable uncertainty about their futures .
4 However , all the teachers have been working under strained conditions and many are tired and overworked .
5 Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s .
6 sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record .
7 Dr Davies and Professor Tomohei Chida of Aoyama Gakuin University have been working on differing aspects of the development of the Japanese ship-operating and ship-building industries for a number of years .
8 The researchers have been working in this area and have produced a new kind of geometric structure which is particularly appropriate to use in statistical theory .
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