Example sentences of "work [verb] on the " in BNC.
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31 | On that date work began on the conversion of the existing manual Kardex file , containing the records of the Library 's periodicals holdings , into machine-readable format . |
32 | Since 1979 , when construction work began on the Colinton Bypass , the provision of an outer city bypass for Edinburgh by 1990 has been a key element of Lothian Regional Council 's transportation policy . |
33 | The LAN option was chosen , and work began on the Computing Upgrade Project , financed by a special grant from DAFS , in 1989 . |
34 | In 1954 work began on the deserted Das Island to build a base for personnel working on a mobile drilling platform in the Arabian Gulf . |
35 | The attacks started after building work began on the biggest improvement scheme carried out at the centre since it first opened in 1982 . |
36 | Work began on the reorganisation in August last year and electricians have begun preparing for the computer terminals . |
37 | There was still an immense amount of work to do on the boat , not the least of which , it seemed to us , was replacing her rotting mainmast . |
38 | Not only is the new hospital looking almost finished ( though I expect there is a year 's work to do on the inside ) , but site preparation is continuing way up the glen . |
39 | The UN University commissioned modelling work on the interaction between food and energy , and this work based on the SARUM global model was completed in 1984 . |
40 | A lot of work done in the fifties by a chap called and perhaps I think is was a later work based on the early work of , I ca n't remember exactly . |
41 | Did you feel impressed by the standard of work displayed on the walls ? |
42 | There are two reasons : firstly , in the summer of 1990 major work started on the church which could restore it to something like its original form ; this would make it interesting , because pilgrim churches are rare . |
43 | Work started on the car eight years ago , just months after the original Sierra went on sale . |
44 | Work started on the resurvey of the Newbiggin ( 10 ) 1:50 000 sheet as the first phase of the Tyne-Alston project to revise the geological map of the Northumberland Basin . |
45 | After a series of delays , more discussion groups and a conference in Manchester , work started on the actual dummy . |
46 | Work started on the former gunnery school in April 1991 . |
47 | Before work started on the Gyle project the Wimpey team identified the health and safety risk factors and then prepared a thorough safety plan detailing the company 's proposed safety management and working practices . |
48 | ‘ Ever since work started on the re-design of the front area we have been living in fear that we will come back on Monday morning and they will have put bricks through the windows again . ’ |
49 | And this week work started on the Tees Barrage which will transform the river . |
50 | ‘ We were able to give the staff a fixed date well in advance of the work starting on the link , ’ says Dave Lomas . |
51 | Ultra-violet examinations were used to determine the thickness of varnish and the restoration work executed on the top of the varnish . |
52 | The work draws on the growing body of material in business histories and on the collective research of company archivists and historians , as well as on more standardised personal records such as wills and rite of passage certificates . |
53 | Some four months before the publication of the reported work , we produced a report which drew on a questionnaire survey of all police surgeons and sample surveys of investigating and custody officers working in the Metropolitan Police District ; the reported work focused on the custody records of just three stations in London . |
54 | His philological work focused on the lexis , pronunciation , and orthography of English . |
55 | It has a shorter season this year , its last in the present theatre while work progresses on the new building to open in 1994 . |
56 | Work recommenced on the processing of outstanding acquisitions of maps from overseas territories , particularly the collections of sheets from Middle Eastern and east European countries , in which particular interest has been shown . |
57 | It is recommended that the loan set should be transferred to the Library by the time building work commences on the Herbarium/Library extension in 1993 . |
58 | strict , straight to the point , the work went on the blackboard , you were given so long to do it , close your book and if you did n't do it you never saw the teacher , but you felt his cane on your knuckles and he knew you were n't doing your work , so you did it . |
59 | The folder containing Rory 's work lay on the seat by my side ; I lifted the file onto my lap , concealing a bulge . |
60 | Much of the work centred on the complex biology of the malaria parasite and on improvements in the methods of testing potential antimalarial drugs . |