Example sentences of "[am/are] working on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And if you 're working on a spreadsheet , you may be working on a spreadsheet during the day , start in the morning , you 're working several hours , you may find yourself running low of memory , then the memory light comes on or you get a memory full up message at some stage , and you think oh that 's not fair , because I have n't made the spreadsheet any bigger .
2 If you find yourself running out of memory , and you 're working on a spreadsheet for a while , what should you do ?
3 The manufacturers have been alerted and they 're working on the problem . ’
4 Always a big help when you 're working on the Continent . ’
5 So we 're working on the principal that even if the person does wake up in the operation they 're s not going to sue you cos they ca n't feel anything in the area you 're operating in .
6 ‘ We ca n't fix a definite time of death until after the post mortem , but we 're working on the assumption that it was shortly after the time agreed for the rendezvous — midnight .
7 So we 're working on the buttery and pantry , particularly the buttery .
8 Now all they have time to do when they 're working on the site is to put them in the trays and wash them .
9 But of course the minute you put a , slap a cover on this information , it begins to , to change and people die and new governments are elected and whatever , er so yes , we are , we have in our employ someone who 's sole job it is to read all the newspapers , er watch the T V , all the media and keep all the information up to date , so the , that 's a full time job really and they 're working on the data base day and night
10 I 'm working on a scheme .
11 In fact , I 'm working on a tuck patterned suit for myself right now .
12 I 'm working on a program for Adam .
13 ‘ I 'm working on the principle that most people are okay unless they get muroculous with drink , when they become arse-holes ; you 're behaving like an arse-hole now , so maybe drink 'll make you okay . ’
14 Well at the moment I 'm working on the mechanism action of vitamin B twelve dependent enzymes .
15 I 'm working on the production of a culture from placental tissue which can give reliable results in toxicity tests .
16 I 'm working on the premise we have no friends anywhere .
17 And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that .
18 At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand .
19 I am working on a replacement for him as it does not look as though he will be available until June . ’
20 In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid .
21 I still add to subjects that are particularly in my line — playground games like marbles , tops and balls — as at the moment I am working on a book about children 's play .
22 I am working on the contract for the rest of the Grapevine package and will be sending you ( and John Statham ? ) drafts for your consideration in the near future .
23 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 .
24 On another front , Russia and Turkey are working on a proposal to create a regional cultural community in the Black Sea basin .
25 The second , and much deeper , problem is that there is still far too little agreement about the themes and content in the curriculum of top juniors so that different primary schools which will ‘ feed ’ a secondary school are working on a degree of common curricular ground .
26 They are working on a publication concerning the raising of the Tyneside Scottish Brigade the 20th 23rd ( Service )
27 UK , Leeds-based VisonWare Ltd 's mystery announcement ( UX No 389 ) turned out to be a technology partnership with fellow UK company Alex Technologies Ltd , Ealing , West London : the two are working on a Windows version of Alex development environment , which currently allows an X-Windows front end to be added to character-based applications .
28 Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step
29 Microsoft will stop short of bundling the Sybase SQL Server that it plans to offer with Windows NT , but the two firms are working on a System 10-derived add-on package , with new tools , to appear in the third quarter , which will scale to personal computers , minicomputers and mainframes .
30 Microsoft has stopped short of bundling the Sybase SQL Server it offers with Windows NT , but the two firms are working on a System 10-derived add-on package , with new tools for the third quarter , that 'll scale to personal computers , minicomputers and mainframes .
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