Example sentences of "work [be] done [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 As yet research is not available , nor has substantive work been done on the relative merits of different approaches to providing residential care for children with disabilities .
2 There is no sense here of any engagement with the writer on what the script should be like , nor does Hepworth anticipate substantial work being done on the text after his initial moments of introspection .
3 One of the two crew , the braver , told us it was on account of the work being done on the new landing stage that access was impossible .
4 There is an increasing amount of empirical work being done on the allocation of resources within marriage ; in this country Jan Pahl ( 1980 , 1983 ) and Anne Gray ( 1979 ) have concentrated particularly on the distribution of household income between marriage partners .
5 The output was restricted due to work being done on the Main Boiler Pump Feed .
6 The the question mark I 've got is tha is that I I certainly accept that , it 's the it 's the question of the work being done at the appropriate level and the erm , the the fact that two sub teams are working without a complaint examiner , and , but I
7 By 1952 the contacts Ramsey had made in the US led to her being awarded a Smith-Mundt scholarship and she toured the country speaking as an authority on what was then pioneering work being done in the UK .
8 But the Sunday Times seems to be looking for a figurehead for the post , with real work being done in the back room , by the likes of Harry Ritchie , Walsh 's deputy , who in the view of many in the book business would make an excellent lit ed for the paper .
9 There is , obviously , quite a lot of work being done in the relatively straightforward field of identifying advertising 's effect on sales through econometric methods , though it is still largely confined to about half-a-dozen large agencies and a similarly limited group of client companies .
10 Contact with western scholars increased , as did knowledge of the work being done in the West .
11 As has been said in the House previously , my hon. Friend will know that we are committed to the work being done in the south Atlantic , which HMS Polar Circle will shortly be carrying out .
12 Instead of the present fixed ceilings on grants , Responsible Bodies ‘ should each be given an allocation representing the maximum amount of grant available for the year , limited to 75% of the teaching costs , after consideration of the quality and standards of work being done by the responsible body , as well as its proposed programme , the needs of the region in which it operates and the activities of other interested bodies in the region ’ ( Recommendations 5 , 6 ) .
13 There is no space to tell you of the depth of fellowship I am experiencing , of the great joy I have in teaching such folk , of all I am learning from these believers who have suffered so much , of the hardening opposition by the Orthodox Church , of the great work being done by the Baptists among Bulgarian orphans and of the plans for an orphanage , school and seminary .
14 The name change was necessary , it was argued , because the original name referred to a single event that had taken place over a decade previously , that it gave the wrong image , and did n't properly describe the work being done by the organisation .
15 In Allen v. Flood a dispute arose between the ironworkers ' union and woodworkers , the former objecting to certain work being done by the latter .
16 The people of this county , were suffering from it , through crying , because of the lack of crime prevention work being done by the previous administration , because the money was all going one way .
17 Sue Chester , training manager and liaison officer with Durham TEC , said she was delighted with the work being done by the Rathbone Society .
18 Finally , mention should be made of the pioneer work being done within the Department of Local History of Leicester University .
19 This has been changing , as more work is done on the Athenian Council ( Boule ) of 500 members , lists of whom have been turning up since the Americans began to excavate the agora in the 1930s .
20 I am sure that the hon. Gentleman agrees that it is crucial that approved contractors are used to ensure that the work is done to the highest possible standard .
21 The dikes get all the credit for keeping the water out , but most of the work is done by the natural wall of sand facing the sea .
22 The work is done by the national branches .
23 Although the ADC has a Tory majority , most of the work is done by the ‘ Big 11 ’ ( cities like Swansea and Hull ) , of which six are Labour , two Tory and the rest hung .
24 The negative sign in the equation is necessary because work is done by the system .
25 No work is done in the fields today and Kalchu is sitting in the sun , making a necklace of marigolds by sinking a needle into the yellow hearts and sliding them together along coarse black thread .
26 We have a very lively time at Conference , we er conduct our business very differently from most of the Party Conferences , most of the work is done before the main debates in workshop sessions .
27 On April 18 the Congress voted by 664 to 139 ( with 72 abstentions ) to approve this resolution , which also recommended that further work be done on the document , and that it be published to widen debate and be resubmitted to the next Congress .
28 A lot of work was done to the bridge in the years 1648–50 and an inscription on it states that it was ‘ built ’ in 1650 .
29 So much tree clearance work was done during the first ten years of the existence of Catchment Boards that it is now difficult to get a complete picture of the derelict state of the rivers before the passing of the Land Drainage Act in 1930 .
30 Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit .
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