Example sentences of "[vb past] to be work " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Supreme Court judge , Fabiola Borrero , from the western city of Cali , was shot dead on Sept. 22 by gunmen believed to be working for the Cali drug cartel . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough 's Acklam Park is the subject of a £5m bid from property developers Foinavon , believed to be working with the Argyll Group , owner of supermarket chains Presto and Safeway . |
| 3 | It seemed to be working . |
| 4 | But they seemed to be working normally — quite normally . |
| 5 | They were supporting him , they were making him look good , and the overall strategy seemed to be working . |
| 6 | Aunt Emily said , ‘ If you read it , dear child , it will take away your fear , ’ and Alexandra , stubbornly remembering Michael Swinton 's saying that she seemed to be working out her own salvation and feeling that the decision to read the journal must be part of that working out , shook her head and sent her needle stabbing in and out of the canvas . |
| 7 | He seemed to be working his way round the back of the Daily Mirror building , though I could n't think why . |
| 8 | ‘ Because he seemed to be working on that kind of thing . ’ |
| 9 | And it certainly seemed to be working . |
| 10 | I learned a lot about books , but what I will remember most is the happy way everyone seemed to be working together , and the obvious warmth of fellowship . ’ |
| 11 | The incident was witnessed by Uncle Fred , a well built lad of eighteen , who happened to be working with a pitchfork nearby . |
| 12 | In which case , if the informant happened to be working both sides of the fence , the connection might prove embarrassing for Asmar . |
| 13 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 14 | It was round that the average labour requirement was 323 hours per farm yet the actual hours claimed to be worked was 551 hours . |
| 15 | It is still not known exactly when the oyster beds on the Arabian shore of the Gulf began to be worked . |
| 16 | It is possible that there was an improvement when the copper veins at Coniston and Tilberthwaite began to be worked , though the latter were not very successful as it turned out . |
| 17 | The unflappable image needed to be worked on — and he began as soon as he entered No. 10 in January 1957 . |
| 18 | I got to be working where they made the tools in that of the engineering shop and er I travelled on a Sunday from Nottingham to London and |
| 19 | Wallace was his usual lively self , and they both looked to be working well together . |
| 20 | British Rail has launched an inquiry , but a spokesman said the alarm bells and gates appeared to be working properly . |
| 21 | The Russians played along with this charade and gave Blake similar information with which to impress his superiors so that the arrangement appeared to be working in favour of MI6 . |
| 22 | In this case the intervention appeared to be working so no modification was considered . |
| 23 | At this stage the pupils appeared to be working well together , but we were aware that they were unnaturally polite . |
| 24 | Although parliamentary government did not cease to work , it no longer appeared to be working in the way that it had in the past . |
| 25 | Port Mill continued to be worked by members of the Evans family for some years , eventually being amalgamated with Marling and Evans . |
| 26 | Mr Meacher said the exact form of a new tribunal system for trying industrial cases had to be worked out within the next three to six months . |
| 27 | The first , in Baltimore in 1980 , when the Cup was in its infancy and a satisfactory formula still had to be worked out , was an almost unmittigated disaster . |
| 28 | It had to be worked out to the finest detail and Endill went to the library to find pictures of a catapult to help them on their way . |
| 29 | This was a sense of order that had to be worked hard for and was created with considerable effort . |
| 30 | Benjamin and Elizabeth and their family belonged , in effect , to what we might choose to call the ‘ comfortable working class ’ ; they benefited from the general rise in Britain 's prosperity in Victorian times — cheaper food and clothing , better sanitation , faster transport , more substantial housing — but their money still had to be earned , had to be worked for . |