Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [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 | Recently , three Americans have been working in the Bonded Department at Elderslie as part of a deal to sell bonded machinery to the States . |
| 3 | A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry . |
| 4 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 5 | They will say , ‘ Look how many subversives have been working under the very nose of Colonel Stok . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |