Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] work on [art] " in BNC.

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1 The aim is to provide investigators working on the past or the present with total kin estimates of any chosen kind , provided always that a reasonable estimate of the demographic regime concerned is available .
2 Ian Elmore and John Whitwich , from Walsall , were horrified to see dozens of specimen tench and big carp struggling in just ten inches of water when they visited engineering works on the Park Hall stetch of the Rushall Canal near Walsall .
3 In the last issue of the Journal , J Wildig mentioned steam working on the Cambrian Line .
4 Others may be surprised that he found time to work on a feature while promoting a top ten hit in ‘ Groovy Train ’ .
5 He concluded the bill was a legislator 's attempt to ‘ assume institutions work on the kind of rational and ordered basis which they outwardly pretend ’ .
6 Why is Mrs O'Rea able to say that they do not need to hire labour to work on the farm ?
7 In the design , all Version 8 integer registers have been extended to 64-bits and all register commands work on the full 64-bit register , with full hardware support for 64-bit arithmetic , including multiplication and division .
8 In his autobiography , Putting the Record Straight , John Culshaw describes Karajan working on the Card Scene in his RCA recording of Bizet 's Carmen made in Vienna in 1962–3 with Leontyne Price as Carmen :
9 It 's been a long day — I spent hours working on a new program .
10 Sad stories are told of people who spent years working on a language and who lost all those years in one night when their house burnt down .
11 ‘ And tell Daak to work on the hole with the chainsword . ’
12 I know that in the past I would not have had the confidence to let children work on the problem .
13 Electric appliances called dehumidifiers work on a closed refrigeration cycle , both drying and heating the air .
14 ‘ When we started out , I must 've practised twelve hours a day for three months , spending hours working on an open string to get those eighth notes , and the triplets shuffle effect — talk about your hands being a bloody mess .
15 Bass have spent months working on the deal and we 're told they will not even bother to attend tomorrow 's meeting of Premier clubs .
16 IT 'S killer bee time in the States and smart federal scientists have spent $100,000 working on the problem of how to track the swarms that ravage farming and kill anything in their way .
17 Of the three broad proposals considered , this would encourage women to work on the market .
18 We saw Ede working on the building of a dam which would improve the water supply by 900 per cent and thereby reduce the hunger and disease that lakes a toll of half the children up to five , The other side of his work is to build up grass-roots organisations so the campesinos can protect their rights .
19 Database work for this thesis was then completed using Microsoft Works on an IBM PS/2 , re-keyboarding the existing data .
20 The move is seen as a spur to get IBM working on the case rather than a serious threat : rivals say they have n't been approached to propose alternatives .
21 Ruby 's forte was getting her own photograph in the newspapers as she ‘ arrived at the police station to advise officers working on the such-and-such case ’ ; she was a popular television chat show guest ; and she made a decent living from writing about psychometry .
22 For the classic Ulster pear-shaped woman , step aerobics works on the areas you 'd rather not think about , that is hips , thighs and bum .
23 He was n't prepared to do anything else there no ar and he was he was to have these plant hire , you know these two , when when his old man used to work us us in the quarry , well this was working up there as well , he had lads working on the plant hire for him .
24 ‘ Passengers are requested not to throw out of the window anything likely to injure men working on the line ’ , said a notice in the compartment .
25 ILE will be key in ensuring applications work on the new hardware , as well as providing performance enhancements , according to Haines .
26 The lowest paid man working on the surface in 1982 earned £94.10 minimum .
27 No I du n no Sally works on a Monday .
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