Example sentences of "[noun pl] working on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the formation of the IGS the number of staff employed increased rapidly by the formation of units working on many branches of earth science . |
| 2 | However in fact behind a navigator or a navigation server there will be any number of SQL Servers working on parallelized S Q L. Now this solution provides us with total linear scaleability , as we run out of processing power we will add another node to the environment and take advantage of all of the processing power of that node using parallel S Q L. This is a hundred percent software solution it 's not a hardware software combination . |
| 3 | Together they support multiple authors working on different aspects of an application simultaneously over a network . |
| 4 | Electricians working on high step-ladders were hanging an elegant modern chandelier , there was a smell of fresh paint and sawdust , and against one wall rolls of polythene-wrapped carpeting gleamed in the thin March sunshine . |
| 5 | In the long run , this situation is bad for Britain 's industry , Maddock argues , because the technology gap is growing all the time between companies working on advanced defence electronics ( in which Britain leads the world ) and these struggling to retain some of the consumer electronics business . |
| 6 | Maybe their system 's organized differently , but fundamentally the problems are the same and that 's given our people the confidence that they needed because they 've been able to see that people everywhere , it 's not just them isolated in , in , you know , Tory Britain , who are facing these particular difficulties , but issues of privatization for example as the same in France and actually about to get much worse , er but , and , and I think that helped erm our colleagues from France who 've also got a perspective on their struggles and their battles we 've been able to support one another with information about companies working , multi-national companies working on both sides of the Channel . |
| 7 | The latter half of the book should be essential reading for all chemists and engineers working on chemical plants . |
| 8 | They circulated to the officials working on post-war plans a paper designed to refute the Section 's approach . |
| 9 | She gained her Queen 's Award after spending two years working on several community projects including talking to young people about drug abuse and helping with conservation . |
| 10 | Further concern centred on a proposal to award full employment rights to temporary or migrant workers working on temporary contract , of whom it was estimated that there were over 1,000,000 in April 1990 . |
| 11 | There was a clear and direct relationship between the level of unemployment in the region and the proportion of temporary workers working on this basis " involuntarily " [ see Table 4.1 ] . |
| 12 | All three main parties had reconstruction committees working on postwar plans by 1941 , while professional groups such as the BMA and the Town and Country Planning Association provided their own schemes . |
| 13 | Their cinema was purer because they were often more fully in charge of their product than were other film-makers working on serious movies , because comedy encouraged a more direct relationship between technique and content , and because the films were made not for any sectional audience but for the mass audience itself . |
| 14 | All too frequently the merger agreement ( which may itself comprise little more than random heads of agreement born of their production by separate teams working on specific issues ) will be relied upon as a sufficient substitute . |
| 15 | The same strictures apply in spades to Unix , an environment that in its conception is quite unsuitable as a production operating system : its priorities were easy sharing of files and code and interaction between members of development teams and between teams working on different projects , where the priority for a business operating system is security and protection . |
| 16 | The short average duration of all spells of working with an agency is also consistent with the picture of a large number of persons working on this basis for very brief periods only . |
| 17 | His vision of the future also included a reduction in university support services for authors ; fewer editors working on more books ; cheaper typesetting and data processing costs ; significantly reduced print runs ( ‘ I expect 50 copies will be considered a large run for some titles ’ ) ; electronic customer catalogues ; improved customer service ; a merging of the jobs of copy editor , designer and production controller ; and dramatically improved distribution ( ‘ the 10 minute book run off locally in the shop could soon be a reality ’ ) . |
| 18 | Another advance is to have writers working on each volume much sooner before the existing one sells out : hence work has already started on Tremadog , Gogarth , Cloggy and even Lliwedd . |
| 19 | SUN LABS WORKING ON NEW NFS FOR DRAGON MP |
| 20 | The wind farm is a joint venture between Tomen , a Japanese trading house , EcoGen , a UK company formed in 1990 to bring together a number of interests working on commercial wind power , and SeaWest , a US company and the world 's largest developer of wind farms . |
| 21 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 22 | Not , apparently , because companies have ceased considering takeovers — everyone talks of City corporate finance departments working on full throttle . |
| 23 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 24 | I probably would have worked out well , I 'll be the spare man , I 'll need four men working on five lathes , because I 'll need a spare lathe in case one falls over , so I can keep four running , I 'll need four men in case one of them 's sick or one , when they go on holidays I can fill in , so we can always get four lathes working . |
| 25 | This competition between the men working on different floors was confirmed by many of the maltsters . |
| 26 | The men working on this pumping station would often work 114 hours in a week , for a wage of 3 3/4d per hour , maintaining a regular output of 7 1/2 to 9 million gallons per week . |
| 27 | Feminists working on social representations recognize , in addition , that human experience is highly symbol dependent , that the issue of language can usefully link psychology with other work in the social sciences and humanities , and that a greater focus on this area might be useful for psychological investigations of many gender issues ( e.g. Wetherell et al . |
| 28 | She cites a number of linguists working on non-European languages who , recognising this problem , have argued for ‘ language-specific descriptions adequate to the particular structure of those languages ’ ( 1982 , p. 9 ) . |
| 29 | Takes beginners up to intermediate level by showing trainees working on specific jobs . |
| 30 | The authorities later specified that certain French residents in Chad were under suspicion in connection with the Feb. 21 incident , and on March 31 the French government repatriated " for security reasons " four French citizens working on official co-operation projects . |