Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] working for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He said that if the Tories had policies that were not working for the Scottish economy then the silence of the SNP since last year 's general election told the real story of what independence for Scotland would really mean . |
2 | But er if they were just working for a single day , it was long day up till ten o'clock at night in a harvest you know . |
3 | The second will consider the work being done to mobilize the concern and commitment of individuals working in all aspects of health care to ensure that they were genuinely working for the health of the people . |
4 | Indeed when I arrived many of the ‘ former ’ secretaries were still working for the company . |
5 | A spokesman told The Northern Echo yesterday some local education authority staff were also working for the Dyslexia Institute and there was no indication the needs of dyslexic youngsters were not being met . |
6 | Although Israel had to obey the laws in blind trust ( when they chose to do so at all ) , we can see how those laws were actually working for the nation 's health and wellbeing . |
7 | Elizabeth Stewart , post-graduate chemistry student , recalls that Sir Robert Robinson under whom she was to work was away working for a government department and his students rarely saw him : ‘ We never knew when he would do a lab round , and often it would be at the lunch hour , when I was out ’ . |
8 | ‘ 'Then some asshole of a journalist printed a story that he was still working for the Company and a couple of weeks later the Red Brigade snatched both of them . |
9 | He was also working for the Department of Archaeology and the Museum and , greatest profit of all , teaching English to the daughter of a rich immigrant Hungarian Jewish family who paid him , for just two lessons a week , more money than his poor father had earned by a hard week 's slog in the docks . |
10 | He was also working for the British Council , writing for foreign magazines and attending functions organized by the Anglo-Swedish Society or the Norwegian Institute , as well as seeing American G.I.s stationed in London — it seemed to him on occasions that every American sergeant wrote verse . |
11 | One of the men from the pub ( the Yasser Arafat look-alike ) was also working for the school . |
12 | After some long while of freelancing , Cara was now working for the superior bi-monthly magazine Verity . |
13 | ‘ I told him — my husband had a hard job , he was n't working for a time . |
14 | This ‘ rothaariges Jungling ’ was the twenty-three year-old Frits Lugt who was then working for the auctioneers Frederik Müller et Cie and the message led to an invitation to visit Dr Max Friedländer in that great training ground for art historians , the Print Room of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum . |
15 | One of them was actually working for the intelligence services . |