Example sentences of "who [was/were] working " in BNC.
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| 1 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 2 | But even he notes that Maxwell would telephone ‘ as often as six times in an evening to staff who were working on political reports ’ . |
| 3 | I and other girls and women , we 'd work the Dhenki , husking the rice , or sometimes we 'd go to the fields carrying tobacco and food for my brothers-in-law and cousins who were working there . |
| 4 | He brought in Italian plasterers , who were working at Lumley Castle , to decorate his ceilings , and built a wide shallow staircase with elaborate Vanbrughian railings . |
| 5 | The observers met some very good teachers who were working in very unsympathetic conditions within a school , and other teachers who were muddled in their thinking about aims , and yet others who did not know how to bring any educational or artistic guts to the drama lesson . |
| 6 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 7 | A group of geophysicists who were working on the rocks of the floor of the north-east Pacific had discovered , before Hess 's suggestion was published , that instead of a random pattern of reversals , such as were common on land , the oceanic crust in the Pacific exhibited a pattern of ‘ strip reversals ’ ; the rocks in each strip were magnetized in one fixed direction , but the rocks in alternate , parallel strips were magnetized in the reverse direction . |
| 8 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 9 | The rules protect people who were working before 1936 from losing out , however . |
| 10 | The committee called in George Stephenson , Reid Clanny and Holmes who were working on safe lamps and ventilation . |
| 11 | The men and boys who were working around the stables looked across curiously to see the strangers . |
| 12 | I was about to accept a lift home from B.B. and John , a double act who were working Sheffield that night , when my name was called . |
| 13 | Five of the others who were working there have been deported , I know that . |
| 14 | Shortly after the IDA applied for planning permission , 46 workers representing eight trade unions who were working on the construction of the Raybestos factory issued a statement : |
| 15 | Two maintenance gangs who were working one night some distance apart on a section of track noticed a mysterious light between them but despite searching the area nothing could be found to explain the phenomenon . |
| 16 | These problems were not strange to the Prague School , who were working on the semiotics of art about twenty years before Barthes . |
| 17 | Their influence is apparent in the work of the anthropologists who were working in the period between the two world wars . |
| 18 | We had the potent , theoretical motivator of vast unemployment in the area , and those who were working for us were considered to be the fortunate . |
| 19 | This was important , because a national study in 1965 showed that one-fifth of women who were working part-time did so because they were caring for a sick or elderly person . |
| 20 | Furthermore , a three-phase study of over a thousand school leavers in the Lothian region of Scotland found that , in marked contrast to alcohol and tobacco use , ‘ levels of illicit drug use were much higher amongst both males and females who were unemployed than amongst their peers who were working or were full-time students ’ ( Plant et al . |
| 21 | The majority of those who were working lost their jobs for the reasons already detailed above . |
| 22 | This picture is enhanced by figure 4.2 , which shows NCB estimates of the number of NUM members who were working in each field both during an early month of the conflict and on four dates in the middle of the strike period . |
| 23 | This measure of increases in men working away from home is unduly conservative but is the closest possible from census data , being the numbers of men in these industries who were working outside their local government district of residence in 1981 minus all men in the construction industry in 1971 , expressed as a percentage of economically active men in 1981 . |
| 24 | The worst part about it was that it stopped right in the line of flight of some bees who were working the field of clover . |
| 25 | Outside ILT those who were working with bilingual students in general community and adult education also found that they were being asked to provide language awareness training for groups who had contact with their students , e.g. health workers , careers advisers , librarians , workers in advice agencies . |
| 26 | The creatures who were working had shovel-shaped implements with which to throw in an endless supply of wood and Nuadu , scarcely able to believe this , thought : but they are felling the Trees ! |
| 27 | Vauxcelles refers to some of the painters of the Indépendants of 1910 who were working under the influence of Cézanne as ‘ ignorant geometricians , who reduce scenery and the human body to dull cubes ’ . |
| 28 | Some who were working intended to slip away for an hour or so . |
| 29 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 30 | Plainly , there is therefore an absolute necessity of early identification of all witnesses upon whom one might rely , even if at that stage statements are not taken from them , thus for example , it would be good practice to identify all those persons who witnessed the accident , who were working in the vicinity of the pursuer at the time of the accident , together with those who have a supervisory function , such as Foreman , Supervisors and Shift Managers . |