Example sentences of "[was/were] working on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Nazis were working on a new advanced midget submarine , and had chosen a quiet Norwegian fiord as the testing ground . |
| 2 | For example , in 1990 the European Community and the Soviet Union were working on a joint nuclear safety programme which may result in the closing , or radical upgrading , of up to 25 Soviet nuclear reactors . |
| 3 | He revealed that the EC and the Soviet Union were working on a joint nuclear safety programme , and he singled out energy production , transportation and the environment as possible areas of EC involvement in the Soviet economy . |
| 4 | On the other hand , for women not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given , and a considerably smaller share said they were working on a temporary basis because permanent work was not available . |
| 5 | erm I think we were working on a six week cycle |
| 6 | So , quite rightly , they 've already had some support , and at that time , we did n't know how much money , you know , we were working on a different budget . |
| 7 | Two Spanish climbers above us were working on the overhanging 6b pitches and although we 'd been told you could aid the whole section it was obvious from the stance that the bolts were too far apart . |
| 8 | The men were working on the hard shoulder installing cables for emergency telephones when the lorry jacknifed . |
| 9 | Dad 's family were living at Charlton-All-Saints between Salisbury and Downton in the mid eighteen-nineties and , as was the custom , not only grandfather but also his two elder sons were working on the same farm . |
| 10 | The pressure to do work against 'cos they knew that Germany were working on the same lines , did n't they , the enormous pressure to get there first . |
| 11 | Peter quickly established a graduate and apprentice training scheme , which achieved accreditation from the IMechE , and was working on a similar scheme for the Institute of Electrical Engineers accreditation . |
| 12 | MY LORD JOHN by Georgette Heyer Arrow , £4.99 AT THE time of her death , Georgette Heyer was working on a large-scale historical sequence based on the character of John , Duke of Bedford , third son of Henry IV , and known to us primarily as the goody-goody prince of Shakespeare 's Henry IV . |
| 13 | Dublin-born textual scholar Danis Rose discovered James Joyce 's ‘ lost novel ’ while he was working on a critical edition of Finnegans Wake . |
| 14 | At the same time I was working on a small English-Burmese dictionary with about 3,500 of the most common words likely to be needed by government workers going back into Burma when liberation should come . |
| 15 | While Rubbing Along in Burmese was being printed , I was working on a bigger handbook for learning the language , under the title of Three Months ' Hard Labour . |
| 16 | During 1985/86 the Archive was working on a major contract to the BBC for the provision of data for the Domesday Project — a commemoration of the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book to be released on video-disk by the BBC in December 1986 . |
| 17 | Quite by chance , and while he was working on a different problem , an Australian psychiatrist , J. F. Cade , discovered that , in guinea pigs , lithium salts made the brain less excitable . |
| 18 | I was working on a different magazine then . |
| 19 | I was working on a basic cable pattern , but now I 'm wondering if there are other clever cables to be made this way . |
| 20 | Health and Safety Executive representative Neil Anderson said Peter McKay was working on a cutting machine when his glove became entangled with a rotating bar he broke two bones in his left hand and was off work for six weeks . |
| 21 | Following news that it was working on a 64-bit Sparc RISC version of very long instruction word technology ( UX No 381 ) , Bell Atlantic Corp , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , is now claiming that there will be a multi-processing , superscalar Sparc Unix machine around by the end of the year that will incorporate the VLIW Trace scheduling compilers which originated from now defunct Multiflow Computers Inc . |
| 22 | He was working on a novel set in New York , The New Rythum ( fragments published in 1962 ) , when he died in Rome 21 May 1926 . |
| 23 | The last Nigel heard , Anthony was working on an archaeological site in northern Italy . |
| 24 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 25 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 26 | Even while he was working on the first draft of the poem , he was writing to Martin Browne about all the engagements ahead . |
| 27 | The Dictionary had reached its sixth edition and Miller was working on the seventh , revising it to incorporate the Linnaean system of classification . |
| 28 | Stripped film from the security camera that videos customers in the Praed Street shop , Took away the staff roster , which reveals who was working on the crucial day , Removed the shop 's till rolls , Attempted to pursuade the female member of staff to forget Mr Onanuga told her he served Mr Lamont on the Monday , and Refused to allow the woman to keep a copy of her signed statement because , it said , it could be handed to a newspaper . |
| 29 | She was working on the two o'clock to ten o'clock shift at the factory and on the Tuesday morning was up early to do some ironing , then she began to prepare the midday meal for herself and her mother and father , and Aunt Carrie who was visiting them . |
| 30 | Now then , , being that was working on the other side , took all the trees on the main drive do you see , and he bought them and cleared them . |