Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have been working " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 2 | The British Refugee Council has been working with and providing services to refugees in Britain since 1981 . |
| 3 | The arrival of each team was heralded by a verse , on which France 's top Christmas cracker poets had been working day and night since at least last week : ‘ For many games past , our hearts have been smitten by the courage of the athletes who come from Great Britain . ’ |
| 4 | The maintenance staff has been working 18-hour shifts to bring the hospital into full operation . |
| 5 | Health board engineers have been working around the clock since Saturday 's attack to get operating theatres cleaned and sterilised . |
| 6 | Meanwhile sister-in-law Kim had been working hard too and in 12 months she lost 5st ( 32kg ) , plus 12½ins ( 32cm ) from her bust , 11 ins ( 28 cm ) from her waist , 14ins ( 36cm ) from her hips and 10½ins ( 26cm ) from each thigh ! |
| 7 | A team of linguists and experts in primate communication have been working intensively with her during the past year to teach her English . |
| 8 | The three year contracts that Lyall and McGiven signed in the summer of 1990 were coming up for expiry so the Town board have been working to keep their highly successful pair with the club to put a stop to speculation and rumours that were beginning to start . |
| 9 | Many nurses in small community hospitals have been working as ENPs , unrecognised and unrewarded , for many years . |
| 10 | The Business Unit has been working closely with the Mass and Density Standards of the NPL since January 1992 to help update the manufacturing procedures utilised in modern day technology . |
| 11 | Caersws station , Llanidloes road level crossing and one crossing up near Criccieth remain semaphore operated ; Machynlleth new station plus staff facilities very nice — old station disintegrating ; Aberystwyth station yard tidied up after several interesting fires but station is on the whole hardly inspiring and platform staff have been working under considerable uncertainty about their futures . |
| 12 | In Newcastle a mental health consumer group has been working closely with purchasers over the past two years . |
| 13 | Unix Labs has been working with SunSelect on Wabi and is responsible for developing the Windows shell , Wabi control panel , help subsystem , dynamic link libraries that support dynamic data exchange and common dialogue , and ISO Latin internationalisation . |
| 14 | Since 1908 , the Research Defence Society has been working to counteract the efforts of the anti-vivisection movement . |
| 15 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition for the fourth time in 1995 . |
| 16 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition on British soil in 1995 . |
| 17 | THE magician and his talking parrot had been working an ocean liner , until one day the liner went down in fog . |
| 18 | Over recent months Cambridgeshire County Council have been working closely with CIBA-GEIGY Plastics , Duxford to produce an Off-Site Emergency Plan for the Duxford Works . |
| 19 | ‘ The county council has been working there recently , putting up fencing all along it because it 's soon to be opened up as official footpath on a new part of the Teesdale Way , ’ said Mrs Brown . |
| 20 | For the past three months , camera crews have been working near her Cotswold home on a television adaptation of her book The Rector 's Wife . |
| 21 | Mr Shah 's fax machine has been working overtime . |
| 22 | This year the Treasury rumour mill has been working overtime . |
| 23 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 24 | San Francisco self-funded start-up Metron Technology has been working for a year and a half to develop some innovative , object-oriented , automated testing and performance debugging software for developing multi-processor and distributed Unix applications . |
| 25 | Steve and his dad Bob have been working overtime on their car … they 've built it themselves … |
| 26 | Before he answered it she slipped in a question about the length of time Shildon had been working on the assignment . |
| 27 | I happen to understand mister advertising client that er you and the estate agent have been working very well together . |
| 28 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You mean all this time Kerry 's been working against you ? ’ |
| 30 | In fact Michael has been working on the province for nearly 30 years . |