Example sentences of "have [be] working [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been working as a nurse practitioner on a general surgical firm at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust since August . |
| 2 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
| 3 | Since his dismissal , Totten has been working as a radio journalist but yesterday admitted that only active participation in the game brought him genuine satisfaction . |
| 4 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
| 5 | San Francisco self-funded start-up Metron Technology has been working for a year and a half to develop some innovative , object-oriented , automated testing and performance debugging software for developing multi-processor and distributed Unix applications . |
| 6 | Sony has been working on a new Walkman which allows you to watch films as you go around . |
| 7 | According to a recent Hollywood Reporter piece , the Runt is currently labelless but has been working on a project which has been hailed as the first interactive album . |
| 8 | HP has also been getting close to Novell , and has been working on a NetWare implementation for its PA-RISC chip a move ahead of other players . |
| 9 | Over the last few months , SCOTVEC has been working on a series of extra additional assessments for the first batch of general SVQs , that is , for the awards in : |
| 10 | Langbaurgh School has been working on a series of projects relating to India and the fruits of their labours will be on display at the Southlands Centre , Ormesby Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 11 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 12 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 13 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 14 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 15 | So , let's think about our objectives , first of all an objective , I might have come to Abbey Life to make money , last year , I might have been working in a factory , earning fifteen , twelve , fifteen thousand a year , and I might make my objective in my first year with Abbey Life to earn sixty thousand pounds . |
| 16 | Having been working on a drama spontaneously , the class ( either as a whole group , or in small groups ) are asked to consider the most important moment in the story so far , and to represent that moment as a still image . |
| 17 | By chance Rose had spoken to the right person as Taylor had been working with a hydrogen diffusion cloud chamber which is potentially well suited for such a task . |
| 18 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 19 | Suzannah Reddan had been working at a pub in north-west London for six months when she disappeared in March 1988 . |
| 20 | Both accounts demonstrate that , until Stanislav Ulam 's observation that X-rays could be used to propagate an instant fusion reaction , Teller had been working on a fundamentally impractical design . |
| 21 | Top stylist at the salon , Jeff Goodwin , had been working on a new idea called Le Flic and together with make-up artist Julie and a new wardrobe of clothes , successfully transformed Alice with these three beautiful styles . |
| 22 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 23 | Jeopardy and Amber had been working on a piece which they intended to perform when Mandru returned home . |
| 24 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 25 | He had been working on a new series for BBC Radio 2 which is due to be broadcast next spring . |
| 26 | He was surprised all the same ; he had been working on a case which , while not exactly undercover , was one demanding some secrecy . |
| 27 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 28 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 29 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 30 | They had been working about a mile along a blind underground roadway , ending at what is due to be a new coal face , when the roof fell in 500 yards behind them . |