Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur Scargill was in no doubt that the government intended to reduce the size of the coalmining industry substantially , through a major programme of pit closures : many tens of thousands of miners ' jobs would be at risk as more and more pits were declared uneconomic , not necessarily because the coal reserves had been worked out but rather because of the perceived costs of mining them , relative to the costs of imports . |
| 2 | The main occupation of the village throughout the centuries was obviously agriculture , but three quarries have been worked since Roman times , and the oolitic limestone is found in many local churches , including Beverley minster . |
| 3 | Computers have been working overtime at corporate headquarters since last Tuesday 's announcement in an attempt to assess the impact on individual project and company cash flow . |
| 4 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 5 | They will be relatively easy to dispose of once the big warrens have been worked out and closed down . |
| 6 | If it were found that more accidents occurred in the winter months between 6 and 8 o'clock in the evening compared with noon and 2 o'clock , is this because , during the early evening , lighting is worse , there is more traffic , drivers have been working longer and are more tired , or weather conditions are worse ? |
| 7 | It has been alleged that the accidents have occurred because your drivers have been working over the legal limit and that your vehicles have not been serviced . |
| 8 | Sound engineers , lighting technicians , set designers , carpenters and electricians have been working night and day , high on the adrenalin that 90 minutes of live T.V. induces . |
| 9 | And administrators who remembered the way their own adolescent energies and rivalries had been worked off in school sports tried unsuccessfully , but with remarkable persistence , to introduce football into the manyattas , believing that they were providing the moran with an attractive alternative to stock-raiding Major Clarence Buxton did not stop at football but — like an enterprising housemaster introducing an Outward Bound programme — organized lion hunts for his moran . |
| 10 | A complete set of drills had been worked out by this time with , for example , five phases in recovering a swimmer after his recce . |
| 11 | Throughout his life several elements had been working within him : a deep knowledge and appreciation of the countryside , a sharp mind and a willingness to learn . |
| 12 | While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain . |
| 13 | Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable . |
| 14 | Loop the yarn across to the next set of 6 stitches and repeat until all buttonholes have been worked . |
| 15 | Health board engineers have been working around the clock since Saturday 's attack to get operating theatres cleaned and sterilised . |
| 16 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 17 | For the past three months , camera crews have been working near her Cotswold home on a television adaptation of her book The Rector 's Wife . |
| 18 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 19 | No definitive explanations have been worked out for the differences between the two concentrations that lie 3000 kilometres apart in Antarctica . |
| 20 | For good measure , some of these ideas have been worked up into watercolour paintings . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Talking about that , did you see that programme , I heard it on the radio actually two days ago about the fiddles the banks have been working ? |
| 23 | And one of my experiences since the N H S reforms has been working in hospitals and hopefully defending our members ' interests . |
| 24 | A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry . |
| 25 | Our sales staff would be pleased to discuss your requirements and the many new concepts Interglass are working on towards the year 2000 . |
| 26 | One of the simplest things to do is to work off some of the tension by walking to the interview if at all possible . |
| 27 | Great changes had been wrought by the eruption . |
| 28 | It is important to note that most campaigners have been working quietly in communities for years but despite this , attitudes on genital mutilation have not changed very much . |
| 29 | In the biggest-ever inquiry of its kind , 30 police officers have been working for a year , taking 1,500 statements from youngsters . |
| 30 | For the last month 30 police officers have been working on the case full time . |