Example sentences of "[prep] work [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company was charged with contravention of the terms of the prohibition notice under s 33 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , because no safe system of work had been proposed to or agreed by the HSE . |
| 2 | The original scope of work had been severely reduced , limiting the unit 's safe operation to only five years but even this reduced scope was progressing painfully slowly . |
| 3 | The camp was a most as noisy as the point of work had been during the day . |
| 4 | Erm , but quite a lot of work had been done , and there are another twenty four classes going to be this week , erm , staff recruitment is complete , staff training is complete . |
| 5 | As far as the former are concerned , the term ‘ advanced ’ is applied to vocational courses in the sense that the level of work achieved is similar to that of other high-level courses , although the entry standards may sometimes be lower , and the majority of students taking them have already successfully completed Foundation Courses . |
| 6 | Pupils had found that the amount of work involved was more than half an Alevel and felt the exams had not proved credible with employers and higher education institutions . |
| 7 | In addition , the pace of wage reduction fell and only one-eighth of the amount was taken off the weekly wage bill between 1930–3 as was taken from the net weekly wage bill for 192 1.47 Also , there was little to suggest that the pattern and the style of industrial relations was greatly altered by the General Strike : the number of workers on strike and the number of days of work lost were already declining well before 1926 and there was a rise of industrial militancy in the late 1920s and early 1930s as unions attempted to resist the further wage cuts being advocated by employers . |
| 8 | An enormous amount of work has been done and perhaps still more remains to be done in arranging works of art in exact sequence of time . |
| 9 | To do this he must assure himself that , on the day he is nominated as a candidate , he is 21 years of age or over , a British subject or a citizen of the Irish Republic and either that his name is on the register of electors in the local government area for which he intends to stand as a candidate , or that he has resided in the area ( or , in the case of a parish or community , within three miles of the area ) for a period of one year , or that he has occupied as owner or tenant land in the area for one year , or that his principal or only place of work has been in the area for one year . |
| 10 | whether a scheme of work has been written ; |
| 11 | The method of work has been to get going at the time dictated by the candidate 's first duty of the day and the time taken to get to him . |
| 12 | Though a certain amount of work has been done on the history of Africa 's media , there is room for research on a far larger scale . |
| 13 | So far only a preliminary amount of work has been carried out in order to assess the restoration work required . |
| 14 | The definition of work has been a central issue ( Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 15 | A great deal of work has been done in attempts to get at the ‘ true ’ total of crimes committed . |
| 16 | A great deal of work has been done in academic and business schools on the track record of success of those who have diversified totally outside their own fields of experience . |
| 17 | Here again , a large amount of work has been done on the analysis of written discourse for students of ESP and EAP ( see , for example , Selinker , Tarone , and Hanzeli 1981 ) , but there is no reason why the same techniques can not be applied more widely to the production and processing of writing of more general interest . |
| 18 | When such a classification is employed it becomes obvious that the majority of work has been directed towards these tertiary activities . |
| 19 | These are fairly generalised packages and a lot of work has been done in personnel on enhancing ADI in particular to make it more attractive as a Personnel Information System . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , a great deal of work has been done . |
| 21 | Over the last two decades a great deal of work has been published by historians on the subject of popular culture . |
| 22 | Although a great deal of work has been done in the historical demography of the developed world relatively little research has been carried out in relation to the corresponding ( i.e. pre-demographic transition ) period in the Third World . |
| 23 | It is significant that the timetable for this area of work has been maintained despite the absence of a key member of the Enterprise Centre 's staff , due to illness , for most of the period . |
| 24 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 25 | Yes , erm , a great deal of work has been done in the United States on this trend , in particular by juvenile fire setters as they refer to them . |
| 26 | It 's probably , maybe member 's ignorance that they do n't know that , that already a lot of work has been done on it . |
| 27 | Following blast at its offices at Charlemont Place in Armagh , spokesman Paul Jackson said students should not telephone the board or call for the next two weeks until the backlog of work has been cleared . |
| 28 | ‘ A considerable degree of work has been done in putting the city first and giving it back to its citizens , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision . |
| 30 | whether the schemes of work have been written up ; |