Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once inside those walls , it really was another world , more than fifteen square kilometres of streets bordered by the crumbling walls of houses , public buildings , cemeteries and reservoirs , some with bits and pieces of bone lying exposed where long-dead looters and grave-robbers had been at work . |
| 2 | Many of my tutors have said that one of the most salutary of their experiences has been to work with a good adult class , which starts with no preconceptions , does n't necessarily have a qualification in mind , and ask the kind of questions which would tend to be asked say in Swift 's Gulliver Travels . |
| 3 | Recently a firm of contractors employed by Lancashire County Council have been at work erecting an AONB Forest of Bowland boundary plinth and sign in the vicinity . |
| 4 | Recently a firm of contractors employed by Lancashire County Council have been at work erecting an AONB Forest of Bowland boundary plinth and sign in the vicinity . |
| 5 | This vast expanse of grass and heather is a cover concealing a realm of magic and mystery , where since the beginning of time nature has been at work slowly evolving an intricate subterranean labyrinth of caverns , grottoes and canals carved in beautiful designs by the agency of running water . |
| 6 | This process has been at work since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 7 | Taking men of working-class origin of the same age group in 1983 , and signifying unemployment as a separate category , the survey found 22 per cent were upwardly mobile , 40 per cent remained in working-class positions , while a further 11 per cent had been pushed down into unemployment , and over half of this last group had been without work for over a year . |
| 8 | Similarly , because the IfS considers the number of weeks a person has been without work since their previous job , those who have never had a job are also excluded . |
| 9 | But how much work was done , how much , if any , ore was obtained and how long the Quakers or Patrickson had been at work we may never discover . |
| 10 | It has been a great privilege to see how God has been at work in their lives and to be part of His plan for these men . |
| 11 | Notice that over 40 per cent of those people unemployed on the day of the count had been without work for over a year . |
| 12 | The gremlins have been at work again ! |
| 13 | The contributors follow the modern theory that Christians need to discover the areas in which the Holy Spirit has been at work in heathen faiths . |
| 14 | With a bloody chin and an empty stomach , Manville had left his apartment already fuming , only to discover that vandals had been at work on his car during the night . |
| 15 | They were all built around the 1720s and all have bold keystones and this dramatic and sometimes swooping raised centre : as though a countrified Vanbrugh or Thomas Archer had been at work . |
| 16 | Would the Prime Minister confirm that today 's figures show the biggest rise in long-term unemployment in 10 years , that 1.3 million people in Britain have been without work for more than six months and that 750,000 of those have been without work for more than a year ? |
| 17 | However , since 1977 various other forces have been at work in the cities and , consequently , have affected the efficacy and relevance of inner-urban policy . |
| 18 | Simultaneously , other forces have been at work , locking or fixing the underclass into place . |
| 19 | Other forces have been at work too . |
| 20 | Special task forces have been at work in each board to deal with the longest waiting lists and I have set aside an extra £1 million this year and in each of the next two years to support their work . |
| 21 | By April 1986 , 186,711 men had been without work for more than five years , a sum nearly five times greater than the same group four decades earlier . |
| 22 | This suggests that the forces both of trade creation and trade diversion have been at work . |
| 23 | So — the grapevine had been at work , had it ? |
| 24 | Two different and sometimes incompatible impulses have been at work . |
| 25 | Yet just at that moment — one occasionally suspects that the mythmakers have been at work on the story — the lookout sighted sails on the western horizon . |
| 26 | Some of Ashiq 's shocked colleagues have been off work since the murder . |