Example sentences of "have [be] working [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , all the teachers have been working under strained conditions and many are tired and overworked . |
| 2 | Caersws station , Llanidloes road level crossing and one crossing up near Criccieth remain semaphore operated ; Machynlleth new station plus staff facilities very nice — old station disintegrating ; Aberystwyth station yard tidied up after several interesting fires but station is on the whole hardly inspiring and platform staff have been working under considerable uncertainty about their futures . |
| 3 | They are part of a BMS Action Team and have been working for six months of mission in France . |
| 4 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 7 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 8 | Dr Davies and Professor Tomohei Chida of Aoyama Gakuin University have been working on differing aspects of the development of the Japanese ship-operating and ship-building industries for a number of years . |
| 9 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 10 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 11 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |
| 12 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 13 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 14 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 15 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |
| 16 | There they have been working with individual patients who , for one reason or another , spend most of their lives sitting down — some of them in wheelchairs , unable to walk at all . |
| 17 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 18 | ‘ We have been working toward this end . ’ |
| 19 | They have been working in small groups to show the lives of a small rural town as yet unconnected to the railway . |
| 20 | The researchers have been working in this area and have produced a new kind of geometric structure which is particularly appropriate to use in statistical theory . |