Example sentences of "work [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 2 | Getting work ticked was my main motivation . |
| 3 | In addition , the pace of wage reduction fell and only one-eighth of the amount was taken off the weekly wage bill between 1930–3 as was taken from the net weekly wage bill for 192 1.47 Also , there was little to suggest that the pattern and the style of industrial relations was greatly altered by the General Strike : the number of workers on strike and the number of days of work lost were already declining well before 1926 and there was a rise of industrial militancy in the late 1920s and early 1930s as unions attempted to resist the further wage cuts being advocated by employers . |
| 4 | Two other changes in the nature of the court 's work had been identified as contributing to the failure to reduce lead times . |
| 5 | The plaster work had been restored and gilded so that it glittered against a dazzling white ceiling and against walls hung with crimson wallpaper . |
| 6 | In previous years , work had been shared during a slump in demand . |
| 7 | There were three possible air-launched solutions : the US Air Force 's Skybolt , which could be modified to fit the V-bombers ; a simpler British ‘ ram jet ’ , called Pandora , suitable for the TSR 2 , whose development was at such an early stage that costs could only be guessed ; and further development of the existing Blue Steel stand-off bomb on which work had been stopped after the Sandys Defence Review . |
| 8 | Because so little work had been carried out on Hector 's dolphin before Slooten and Dawson began their studies , it is impossible to even guess at the number of dolphins which had been annually killed before 1984 . |
| 9 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 10 | The work had been incredibly boring ; even with her husband 's help it had taken an age to find out the Russian terms for the jargon of mountaineering , and the subject simply left her cold . |
| 11 | My monthly insurance payment worked out at £18.20 , but I could n't qualify for the Denplan scheme until the necessary work had been carried out to make my mouth dentally fit . |
| 12 | ( ‘ A ’ Squadron of the S.A.S. had indeed had some contact with S.O.E. agents in the Morvan , but the principal nature of their work had been somewhat different . ) |
| 13 | But did the women really feel that their own work had been less important ? |
| 14 | It is worth pointing out that more work had been done by the pathfinders than many people realize . |
| 15 | Raistrick 's work had been published and provided a valuable starting point . |
| 16 | Mendel 's work had been rediscovered and repeated . |
| 17 | It was quieter than usual downstairs , yet there were vague sounds of movement and alien conversation , as if normal domestic work had been interrupted and replaced by something more significant , and sinister . |
| 18 | So far appreciation of other 's work had been his gift to us . |
| 19 | Previous theatre work had been tiring but now cine-variety was exhausting . |
| 20 | The cost of the work had been met piecemeal by the state as the network has developed . |
| 21 | Meeting Ricci later , Galileo also learned about Archimedes , a Latin version of whose work had been published in 1543 . |
| 22 | But whatever his shortcomings as a prospective lover , Nick was good at his job — very good — and his talent and hard work had been rewarded when Paul Leeman , the publishing tycoon , had decided to launch the new magazine , Focus Now . |
| 23 | Luckily , Avril 's course work had been so good she only had to finish her dissertation to pass — which she did . |
| 24 | Consequently , new areas were mapped before the previous work had been written up . |
| 25 | It was not until the early sixties that he was able to resume his film career , but his post-blacklist work had been undistinguished by two top-heavy Yul Brynner spectacles , Taras Bulba ( 1962 ) and Flight from Ashiya ( 1964 ) . |
| 26 | Before work had been completed on the whole batch , it became clear that it might be cheaper to obtain replacement cars if any could be procured second-hand at a reasonable price . |
| 27 | The company was charged with contravention of the terms of the prohibition notice under s 33 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , because no safe system of work had been proposed to or agreed by the HSE . |
| 28 | Unknown to Ted , however , this work had been postponed . |
| 29 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 30 | His 1932 work had been greeted with great interest and in 1958 he rightly decided that the news from ZETA merited a press conference . |