Example sentences of "[been] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the recent introduction of the Children 's Act , the aim has been to work more closely with the natural parents , with a view to returning youngsters to their own homes as quickly as possible . |
| 2 | Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it . |
| 3 | Miss Goody Two Shoes has n't been to work for a week apparently . |
| 4 | I 'd been to work all day and I 'd been and been running sheets off all night . |
| 5 | She had n't been to work for two nights . |
| 6 | Doris Clay , part-time barmaid , had not been to work on Friday evening nor over the weekend . |
| 7 | I 've been to work in a bicycle shop . ’ |
| 8 | That is a sharp decline from the 73.5p at which they were suspended and reflects the financial havoc which has been wrought on the company 's accounts as a consequence of the problems at its ISC Technologies subsidiary . |
| 9 | Great changes had been wrought by the eruption . |
| 10 | My theory — ‘ mine ’ , I say , but the miracle had been wrought in front of me by Sister Kenny — was very simple . |
| 11 | A recent scrutiny by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission commented favourably on the changes that have already been wrought and the further developments that are under way . |
| 12 | Even though she had only had time to glimpse the devastation that had been wrought , she knew that it had been a professional job , carried out by men who would leave no trace behind them . |
| 13 | For years it had not been worked . |
| 14 | This means that the biceps have been worked through their complete range of movement , aiding complete development . |
| 15 | When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son . |
| 16 | Following the Romans ' introduction of the geared watermill into England , many such mills were established — the Domesday Book lists 5,624 mills , although a good proportion of these would have been worked by horses or oxen rather than water . |
| 17 | A new Jump Pattern has been worked out and some new races created specifically for horses whose optimum trip is two and a half miles , a distance not previously catered for at championship level both over hurdles and fences , although there will still be nothing for novice chasers over that distance at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 18 | Mr Gorbachev 's clear message was that the time had not yet come to abolish the party 's monopoly of power , but that it might well do so when a new political structure had been worked out , and the present economic crisis overcome . |
| 19 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 20 | I like it when a Prince song is overwrought , has been worked at neurotically ( Prince 's music teeters on the brink of being addled by perfectionism , but never is stifled by attention , because every superfluous squiggle or quiver in the sound is a carnal appendage of the man 's polyrhythmic perversity ) . |
| 21 | The itinerary for this competition appeared to have been worked out with the sole aim of maximizing the profit of the air operators who did the transporting . |
| 22 | The Director of Personnel responsible for the personal affairs of overseas executives rang Mark from Detroit to say that compensation terms had now been worked out , and that he would be visiting England the following week to discuss the subject with him . |
| 23 | Many of these references indicate that the process originated in Asia Minor , in particular the region of Phrygia , near zinc ore deposits which are known to have been worked in antiquity . |
| 24 | Nearby , alum has been worked for centuries and we could still see the remains of the old landing stage where little coasters brought brimming vats of urine from London , which was mixed with the local mineral to produce dyestuff fasteners for textiles . |
| 25 | specialist , and ( 2 ) the conceptual relationship between movement and drama had never been worked out sufficiently for the practical relationship to become clear . |
| 26 | Certainly the lift could have been worked , like the Anderton life , by the simple expedient of having an excess of water , in the descending tank . |
| 27 | Since the 1880s the mill has been worked by the White family , who still run it today . |
| 28 | Both Lower and Upper Mills appear to have been worked by a single miller , both presumably owned by the Prouts . |
| 29 | LEFT : Malswick Mill , still complete although it has not been worked since the 1950s , is part of a farm . |
| 30 | The live-and-let-live system could have been worked out by verbal negotiation , by conscious strategists bargaining round a table . |