Example sentences of "[been] work [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , hence the difference , and erm , the average cost has therefore been worked on the basis of beds that were available , and indeed . |
| 2 | I 've been working with the deaf-aid for over a week , for God 's sake , and I realised how much I rely on it . |
| 3 | An impressive madame , wife of the owner , stands continuously in the corner of the restaurant , surveying every aspect of the culinary stage management , and the sommelier has been working with the family for 38 years . |
| 4 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 5 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |
| 6 | A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade . |
| 7 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the 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 re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 8 | Sentinel has been working on the concept of the machine for eight years and says it will be supplying the systems to five major customers , for use in insurance as well as telecommunications applications , in the third quarter . |
| 9 | Scientists at the Rowett Research Institute , near Aberdeen and the North of Scotland College of Agriculture have been working on the idea for more than 15 years . |
| 10 | He must have been working on the paper about the same time as he was writing the papers of Totem and Taboo , or just afterwards . |
| 11 | I had , after all , been working on the review for the last year . |
| 12 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 13 | The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it . |
| 14 | We 've been working on the project for quite some time . |
| 15 | Echo has been working on the technology for three years with a variety of minicomputer architectures . |
| 16 | Though it did not appear until relatively late in his life , Locke had been working on the Essay since about 1660 . |
| 17 | These ‘ environmentally-friendly ’ studios will be funded by a grant from the Kress Foundation and will be co-ordinated by the Swiss conservator Luca Bonetti who has been working on the design with the Italian team of Mario and Dario Bellini . |
| 18 | Local people said he had been working on the site for two years and was very popular with them . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been working on the unionization of women in Kampur for several years now , ’ she said . |
| 20 | The CEN Technical Committees 116 and 117 which have been working on the creation of European Standards for bituminous sheeting and single-ply membranes have recently been disbanded to be replaced by a new Technical Committee , CEN TC 254 , which will prepare European Standards on waterproofing sheeting used in building and civil engineering works . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been working on the show since Christmas and hope the audiences enjoy it as much as we do , ’ said Vivien . |
| 22 | Alan Anderson , Monsanto Quality Manager , presented the award and made these comments : ‘ I had a personal interest in this one because I 've been working on the application of quality to safety management which is what the Rubber Chemicals Safety Improvement team is all about . |
| 23 | In fact Michael has been working on the province for nearly 30 years . |
| 24 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 25 | The gallery represents those painters and graphic artists from eastern Berlin who have been working at the dissolution of figuration into pure chromatic values and abstract formal structures . |
| 26 | ‘ Mr C S Jones ( Lab ) , Leicester NW — Will the Government now publish the report on which Mr S J L Summerchild is known to have been working at the time of his death ? — The report has already been published as Cmnd. 4078 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 28 | I have been working at the playgroup in Middleton St George for about seven years now , and I 've been the leader for about two . |
| 29 | Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years . |
| 30 | In March it was learned that there is in existence a French organisation which has been working towards the provision of a water supply to the village of Atea and the construction of a better quality road to the village than had previously existed . |