Example sentences of "they [be] working [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Let me tell you about the Barking women most of them are dead , some of them are working for local authority . |
2 | Children 's motivation can be maintained during a project if they are working towards some culmination of the activity . |
3 | I gather they are working on vulgar fractions . |
4 | When worn battened down without a hat , the hood really needs some sort of volume adjuster at the back , or else the soft peak reduced visibility dramatically ( Lowe say they are working on this ) . |
5 | If real wages are lower , then in the short run employment will rise to and output to i.e. output rises above its equilibrium level because people are ‘ fooled ’ into thinking they are working for real wage when they are actually working for real wage . |
6 | On the other hand , they are working among disease-bearing ticks , chiggers , botflies , sandflies , hookworms , leeches and , by no means last or least , the dreaded candiru . |
7 | A band does n't have to concern itself with filling in PRS forms at their gigs until they are working in these larger venues . |
8 | Well you know where they 're working outside all time ? |
9 | So they 're working to different standards than that the water industry . |
10 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
11 | he added , ‘ they 're working on that . ’ |
12 | I B M , U K , which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year , has some sixteen thousand employees based in some fifty two locations throughout the United Kingdom , and they 're working on all aspects of information technology , er , from software to silicon , from telecommunications to personal systems , and of course we form part of a very large company , I B M Corporation , which employs around three hundred and seventy thousand people across the world . |
13 | We have a large coalfired power station near where I live er in Oxfordshire er at a place called Didcot , which is also a railway er junction erm roughly halfway between Harwell where we , we invented er nuclear power and , and Culham where they 're working on nuclear fusion which is a different kind of nuclear power , roughly halfway between the government decides to build the largest coalfired power station in the country . |
14 | And they were working at this Pit . |
15 | They were working with both ends . |
16 | More often , however , navigation engineers were at odds with drainage men , especially when they were working on existing rivers . |
17 | He eventually joined the Ed Dubois design office where he met his current business partner Richard Lovett while they were working on two Admiral 's Cup yachts , Formidable and Promotion in 1982/83 . |
18 | Forty-four-year-old Robin Phelps from Brockweir was one of two men who died after the gantry they were working on collapsed and fell more than a hundred and fifty feet into the Severn in September ( 1990 ) nineteen-ninety . |
19 | While they were working on this case there were some things which Nikos had better not know . |
20 | I understand that they were working to commissioned orders for a very wide range of goods and products , which were then sold in government-run shops in local towns . |
21 | Providers felt they were working against each other to capture trainees to ensure their own survival . |
22 | They were working from both ends . |