Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] been at work " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The gremlins have been at work again ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Simultaneously , other forces have been at work , locking or fixing the underclass into place . |
| 6 | Other forces have been at work too . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This suggests that the forces both of trade creation and trade diversion have been at work . |
| 9 | Two different and sometimes incompatible impulses have been at work . |
| 10 | 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 . |