Example sentences of "was work on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish . |
| 2 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |
| 3 | Pressure was worked on the scale of ‘ megabars ’ . |
| 4 | Using just four rows of pattern , this sample was worked on the Singer Big Nine and after the first four rows was extremely easy to work . |
| 5 | They were standing at the desk by now and the girl was working on the bill . |
| 6 | By the time Darwin was working on the Origin of Species , the man who was to become his great opponent in the USA , Louis Agassiz , was using diagrams to show how the various families of fish had flourished and declined through the geological epochs ; and in his handsome volumes of 1857 , Contributions to the Natural History of the United States , I and II , he included a plate of turtles to show the range of variation within a species . |
| 7 | I remember when I was working on the building sites in Manchester , the Irish lads called onions " navvies ' apples " and some of them would peel them and eat them whole like fruit . |
| 8 | In fact the script , which saw American lawyer Thomas Ward cleared of the charge of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness while he was working on the brewing giant 's takeover of Distillers Group , did little more than tie up the loose ends of the storyline . |
| 9 | I was working on the gardens and we had to sweep all the grounds . |
| 10 | Michel Laclotte came at the time he was working on the Musée D'Orsay . |
| 11 | Partly Byzantine and partly Romanesque , it was altered in the Gothic period by Arnolfo di Cambio when he was working on the cathedral . |
| 12 | All this time I was working on the hero 's book . |
| 13 | At the time , Dr. Zúñiga was working on the case of student Ernesto Castillo Páez , who ‘ disappeared ’ after he was reportedly detained by police on 21 October 1990 in Lima . |
| 14 | I came down when my husband was working on the factory site then as I say , prior to us coming to live here this was had n't been even built so we 've seen it grow from the floor to what it is today , you know ? |
| 15 | There is no doubt that in The Family Reunion he was attempting that re-integration of religious and secular drama which he discussed at the time he was working on the play . |
| 16 | This is hardly surprising , since its gestation period comprised the years in which Eliot was working on the Notes . |
| 17 | Fire officer Stewart Reeve said the engineer was working on the freezer when he was overcome by gas . |
| 18 | I was working on the safe . |
| 19 | Lowell , also stressed by Rose 's absence , was working on the nocturne . |
| 20 | It was Sunday and Mark was working on the address he was to give at Trinity College , Dublin . |
| 21 | He was practically running the department while I was working on the store for him , and he 's ready for further things than that , |
| 22 | That year the twenty-five-year-old Cocteau was working on the book of Parade , Diaghilev 's controversial new ballet which was to express the new spirit in the arts , with music by Satie and Cubist costumes and sets by Picasso . |
| 23 | Perhaps he was working on the island again . |
| 24 | In America Clarence Perry was working on the design principles of a ‘ neighbourhood unit ’ , and Frank Lloyd Wright advocated the ultimate in decentralized living in ‘ Broadacre City ’ . |
| 25 | Others suggested that such functionality would be integrated at the motherboard level , and that Sun was working on the technology independently to its current emulation partner , the UK 's Insignia Software of High Wycombe . |
| 26 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 27 | He was part of a delegation that went to the BBC to complain about proposed cuts to the Third Programme , the " cultural " channel of the broadcasting service ; he was working on the Commission for the Revised Psalter ; he was asked to give evidence to the Parliamentary Commission on Obscene Publications ( he had had very little experience of pornographic literature , he told the members of that commission , and his own work was " quite anodyne " ) . |
| 28 | On this evidence therefore it seems possible that , on the evening of 14 May , AFHQ was working on the assumption that Loehr 's forces , including hundreds of thousands of Germans , had already surrendered to 5 Corps or were about to do so , and therefore that the German element in those forces might be included in the " 500,000 " Germans whom AFHQ was asking SHAEF/12th Army Group to take over . |
| 29 | Washington has expressed its willingness to change the venue for the summit from Vancouver to Moscow if the Russian side makes such a request , but Mr Clinton said he was working on the assumption that it would take place in Canada as planned . |
| 30 | Erm a lot of it was working on the side . |