Example sentences of "work be [vb pp] on 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 Thus , the effects of reduced mortality rates and of improved life expectancy rates on unemployment rates or hours of work are ignored on the grounds that the effects of such factors on economic growth must be considered separately .
3 In this respect the Development of Total Quality Systems within the Department is seen as essential , not only in pointing the way ahead but also ensuring that all aspects of our work are based on the best possible delivery of service .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The output was restricted due to work being done on the Main Boiler Pump Feed .
8 But when the students ' work is displayed on the last day , it makes no difference as you ca n't tell which camera produced which result .
9 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 .
10 Jana 's work is based on the belief that exploring creative expression is one way of finding and strengthening our inner power .
11 This work is based on the examination of the goods used by some three hundred individuals in eighty-two households .
12 All of our reparation work is based on the fact that we want people to volunteer to do this work .
13 The programme of work is based on the assumption that it will have implications for addiction studies , policy studies , prevention studies and industrial studies generally , and for the particular disciplines that will be brought together in the Centre .
14 The other part of the work is based on the experience , particularly of councils for voluntary service and other bodies like that , who at a local level are providing advice and support to voluntary groups .
15 With long-term prisoners and lifers much of their work is centred on the understanding of offending behaviour and the risks of re-offending ; with others , the whole range of family and personal problems call for tact , understanding and a good deal of dogged , patient work .
16 ‘ A little more work is required on the nose , ’ she says .
17 Clearly much more work is required on the development of techniques to observe the user during the search activity in order to make the necessary assessments .
18 Carzo and Yanouzas suggested that if work is organised on the basis of small groups or project teams ( therefore narrow spans of control and a tall organisation structure ) group members would be able to plan their work in an orderly manner , encourage participation by all group members in decision-making and monitor the consequences of their decisions better , so that their performance will be more efficient than the work of groups in a flat structure with a wide span of control .
19 Ullman 's work is premised on the phenomenological fact that human beings can experience apparent movement in several different ways .
20 Not all lawyers , of course , actually engage in advocacy but their work is predicated on the possibility that competing interpretations of fact and of law arising from competing interests will have to be represented and argued in court or tribunal .
21 The work is founded on the principle that each of the dead should be commemorated individually by name either on the headstone on the grave or by an inscription on a memorial .
22 Again starting from the problem of expert knowledge in the division of labour , Cain addresses the radical critique of law as an instrument of social control , that lawyers ' work is founded on the suppression of clients in the interests of a ruling class .
23 The pair 's work is founded on the philosophy that ‘ Nature knows best ’ , as US biologist Barry Commoner put it — pithily if controversially — in his seminal 1970 book on ecology , The Closing Circle .
24 Although the philosophical climate in the United Kingdom is right for such a development and the epidemiological background is well established , much more laboratory work is needed on the molecular genetics , enzyme function , gene transfer to human liver cells , and relevant liver cell biology if patients in the United Kingdom are to benefit from any advances which may occur .
25 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 .
26 It was begun in 1794 , but the first borings were a total failure , due to unsatisfactory design and materials , and unforeseen and excessive seepage of water into the workings , and work was stopped on the proposed two-mile-long tunnel in 1796 .
27 This work was undertaken on the assurance from the Council and Charitable Trust that those bodies would resp would , would respect the Board 's employment policy .
28 In the camps , work was imposed on the prisoners with the aim of exploiting and of destroying them .
29 That work was done on the nickels of a string of major investors led by IBM Corp , which is thought to have lost between $100m and $200m on the failed venture — but Chen 's announcement that his new company , Supercomputers International Inc , will draw on work done by the failed one raises the question of who owns that work .
30 The mosaic work was introduced on the Portuguese mainland in the eighteenth century and it soon reached Madeira .
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