Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be work on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Describing herself as something of a ‘ social victim ’ , she has temporarily torn herself away from urban distractions in favour of time and space at a ‘ country abode ’ , where she is working on material for a second album , due in November . |
| 2 | THE United Nations said that 20 Brazilian and 50 Russian workers had been kidnapped by opposition soldiers in eastern Angola , where they were working on a Congo River dam project . |
| 3 | Matthew had a drawing board on the table by the window , where he was working on a set of plans . |
| 4 | Well this particular system that I 'm working on a the moment is really unintelligent . |
| 5 | Bang a drum and it answers back , so I was working on a street market at the time and I went and bought a drum and started to learn . |
| 6 | So I would think that we 're working on a five minute schedule . |
| 7 | the basis , well , that we 're working on , on existing staff . |
| 8 | It 's an indication that they are working on it and what may seem to be an accepted fact one day can be vehemently denied the next as the bereaved person comes to terms with the loss . |
| 9 | 1956 : As ‘ Talking Book ’ 16 rpm albums are released in Germany , UK Decca report that they are working on a single-groove stereo disc , as visualised by a certain Alan Blumlein way back in 1931 . |
| 10 | Although he was working on some big accounts — British Gas , Bankers Trust , Harris Queensway and Beecham — he was ambitious and keen for a little more action . |
| 11 | And I think it 's both important for N C V O itself , to ensure that it 's working on issues , equal opportunities issues that affect itself , and that it 's helping the sector as a whole to do that , and and we 're very conscious of that , and er , certainly just in the last few weeks , have been looking at how we can upgrade what we 're doing in that sphere . |
| 12 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 13 | Following news that it was working on a 64-bit Sparc RISC version of very long instruction word technology ( UX No 381 ) , Bell Atlantic Corp , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , is now claiming that there will be a multi-processing , superscalar Sparc Unix machine around by the end of the year that will incorporate the VLIW Trace scheduling compilers which originated from now defunct Multiflow Computers Inc . |
| 14 | But Lillie 's theme in 1965 was conservation , so he was working on both topics simultaneously . |
| 15 | The first four volumes have been publishes and I am working on the final volume , covering chiefly the First World War . |
| 16 | Having made the Hannover picture I thought it would be nice to have a smaller version , so I now have a two-metre square version on canvas , also painted with Scanachrome , and I am working on the area of the television screen in a more painterly manner than I was able to use on the large one . |
| 17 | At the moment he and I are working on a scheme which could wreck this political organisation for good . |
| 18 | And , well , I was n't doing anything , so I just started writing songs again — but this time they were guitar-based songs and I was working on a Portastudio . |
| 19 | If I am working on pupil autonomy , then I have to find some way to remind pupils that it often helps to talk out loud to someone , and to establish an atmosphere in which they readily approach each other and me for this purpose . |
| 20 | I 've only done seven Well there 's twenty tapes and I 've got ta do as many as I can , I have n't done half of them yet , but if I could have them over the weekend I 'd be able to do loads more cos I 'm working on Saturday , I 'm going out Saturday , I think |
| 21 | There had obviously been a couple of heated arguments , probably to do with the artistic … you know , you get bored with something that you 've done before and you 're working on a new project , and I think he thought that having to wear a suit as opposed to his choice of stage gear can be very nerve-racking . |
| 22 | If you find yourself running out of memory , and you 're working on a spreadsheet for a while , what should you do ? |
| 23 | And you 're working on that shrink wrap er areas are n't you saw them there yesterday . |
| 24 | What happens here is that if a white lady wants to go to the toilet and she 's working on a line , she does n't ask anyone 's permission , she just gets up — out she goes , powders her nose , has a cigarette , whatever they do — then comes back . |
| 25 | Now her powerful , operatic voice appears on Soul II Soul 's ‘ A Dream 's A Dream ’ and she is working on a solo album , ‘ Glomozon ’ , to be released on the Soul II Soul label . |
| 26 | If you are working on the floor , sit cross-legged if possible or kneel on a mat . |
| 27 | If you are working on a network , check with your teacher/supervisor . |
| 28 | If you are working on the RM Nimbus network WAIT for the Command Menu to reappear and then : |
| 29 | If you are working on an angled drawing board , the best kit we supply is a 150-4-PK dual action airbrush , which comes in a wooden box and has all three head and needle assemblies : fine , medium , and heavy-duty , to suit all the media you are likely to use . |
| 30 | If you are working on a flat surface , you could use any of the 100L airbrushes from Morris and Ingram , possibly the 100-4-SS airbrush set , which comes with a fine and medium assembly and needle and colour cups . |