Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] be working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 2 | This brother had been working in Derby for some considerable time . |
| 3 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based company has been working over the last few months to staff up a new business unit to concentrate on low-end multi-processors , an area it feels offers great potential . |
| 4 | Recently , three Americans have been working in the Bonded Department at Elderslie as part of a deal to sell bonded machinery to the States . |
| 5 | A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry . |
| 6 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 7 | They will say , ‘ Look how many subversives have been working under the very nose of Colonel Stok . ’ |
| 8 | His article in the Transactions of the Würzburg Physical Medical Society was promptly reported in England and America and , as many scientists had been working in the field , was widely taken up . |
| 9 | In 1911 Wren had been working in India for less than eight years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |
| 12 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Since returning from New Zealand the Irish squad has been working on fitness programmes under the guidance of Dr. John Kirwan , who heads the national training centre at Thomond College in Limerick . |
| 15 | Throughout his life several elements had been working within him : a deep knowledge and appreciation of the countryside , a sharp mind and a willingness to learn . |
| 16 | The start-up company has been working on four lines of development , all using its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc implementation and the VME bus . |
| 17 | Tonight she 'd try to find out which , if any , of the other employees had been working at the club when Christine had been there . |
| 18 | Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |