Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 2 | I hope your mind has been working in an expansive way and that you have thought more about your future . |
| 3 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 4 | Echo has been working on the technology for three years with a variety of minicomputer architectures . |
| 5 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 6 | The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it . |
| 7 | The British Refugee Council has been working with and providing services to refugees in Britain since 1981 . |
| 8 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 9 | Your boy 's been working on it . |
| 10 | Since then the 25 business men and women on the committee have been working to an ambitious programme . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If there is no formal agreement between the band members , and if the band has been working in practice as a partnership , I have always viewed the band as operating as if there were a formal partnership agreement . |
| 13 | Sarat has been working in his father 's fields but in August was due to move to a clerical post in Cuttack . |
| 14 | Both accounts demonstrate that , until Stanislav Ulam 's observation that X-rays could be used to propagate an instant fusion reaction , Teller had been working on a fundamentally impractical design . |
| 15 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 16 | An impressive madame , wife of the owner , stands continuously in the corner of the restaurant , surveying every aspect of the culinary stage management , and the sommelier has been working with the family for 38 years . |
| 17 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 18 | Graydon has been working with several large UK organisations on a remedial approach to corporate risk assessment |
| 19 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 20 | Following on from his recent installations , the Argentinean artist has been working on moveable objects consisting of a wooden surface , on which he draws in graphite or coloured pastels , and a superimposed sheet of lead some distance from the base . |
| 21 | Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter . |
| 22 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 23 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |
| 24 | Cecil explained that Pursuit of Love had been working at home with Desert Sun and the recent Newbury winner Rudimentary . |
| 25 | The exhibition will include various technologies on which Fujitsu and the Singapore government have been working as part of the IT2000 plan , Singapore 's comprehensive computing plan for the twenty-first century , which include south-east Asia 's first B-ISDN service . |
| 26 | ‘ Members of my church have been working with ACET since it started 3 years ago . |
| 27 | Jeopardy and Amber had been working on a piece which they intended to perform when Mandru returned home . |
| 28 | Langbaurgh School has been working on a series of projects relating to India and the fruits of their labours will be on display at the Southlands Centre , Ormesby Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 29 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |
| 30 | Since returning from New Zealand the Irish squad has been working on fitness programmes under the guidance of Dr. John Kirwan , who heads the national training centre at Thomond College in Limerick . |