Example sentences of "have [been] work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | At the application level , Unisys has been working with the database companies on distributed technology , including lock management . |
6 | 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Echo has been working on the technology for three years with a variety of minicomputer architectures . |
11 | A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry . |
12 | In fact Michael has been working on the province for nearly 30 years . |
13 | A committee of three ministers — Roger Freeman ( transport ) , Francis Maude ( Treasury ) and John Redwood ( trade and industry ) — has been working on the railway sell-off ; and the group drafting the Tory election manifesto has been trying to distil the trio 's ideas into an appetising few paragraphs . |
14 | Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time . |
15 | Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more . |
16 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
17 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
18 | A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | It is true that the two eldest sons , William 19 or 20 , and Thomas 16 or 17 , might have been working in the mine as subsidiary members of a gang and are unrecorded in accounts . |
21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
22 | Great changes had been wrought by the eruption . |
23 | Two of them were real stunners John Davies rocketing out of a rolling maul 20 metres from the line to score , and then Stuart Davies crossing a Llewellyn line-out take 15 metres out after it had been worked to the line . |
24 | He was clad in the same white coveralls as the half-dozen policemen who had been working over the room , like a coven of wraiths . |
25 | Mr Mowatt and Mr Pirrie had been working through the user directories , archiving files for retention , and deleting others as advised by users . |
26 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
27 | Tonight she 'd try to find out which , if any , of the other employees had been working at the club when Christine had been there . |
28 | Before he answered it she slipped in a question about the length of time Shildon had been working on the assignment . |
29 | Mr Siddle , of Hesleden Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough , said they had been working on the operation the previous day and the pipe kept jamming when attempts were made to slot it into place . |
30 | Victim one : Liverpool-born theatre director and choreographer Peter Walker , who had been working on the hit musical , City of Angels , was found strangled , his naked body trussed up on his bed at his home in Battersea , on March 8 . |