Example sentences of "[verb] be working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost from the outset , the measure provoked fierce ethical debate , and while the 12 nations of the European Community continued to grapple with commercial aspects of biotechnology , the 26-nation Council of Europe has been working toward an international convention on human rights questions in bioethics . |
| 2 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based company has been working over the last few months to staff up a new business unit to concentrate on low-end multi-processors , an area it feels offers great potential . |
| 3 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 4 | Derek has been working at capturing the flavour of the Norfolk Black — but in a bigger-breasted bird . |
| 5 | Filan , who carries an Irish passport , has been working at Saints with former England goalkeeping coach Mike Kelly after failing to impress Lou Macari during a week 's trial at Stoke . |
| 6 | Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years . |
| 7 | Frances has been working at Ashworth for the last four years . |
| 8 | He has been working at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow since 1980 , but has now decided to move to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the new year . |
| 9 | CEPALC is a non-profit-making organisation which has been working since 1978 to serve the communication needs of grassroots groups in the towns and rural areas of Colombia . |
| 10 | Margaret Robbins ( Dr Mohamed-Salih ) has been working since January in the Health Care Evaluation Unit , Dept. of Public Health Medicine , University of Bristol as a M. R. C. Research Fellow . |
| 11 | She has been working as a nurse practitioner on a general surgical firm at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust since August . |
| 12 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
| 13 | Patricia Burns ( Mrs Sellers ) since July 1989 has been working as Assistant Secretary , Dept. of Energy , with responsibility for safety , health and environmental issues in the nuclear industry and for accident and emergency planning at civil nuclear sites . |
| 14 | Since his dismissal , Totten has been working as a radio journalist but yesterday admitted that only active participation in the game brought him genuine satisfaction . |
| 15 | The National Council for Women 's ‘ Charter for Women 's Health ’ launched in September calls for the right to knowledge , participation in health-care decisions , opportunity for choice , provision for quality care , accessible health care & the right to a healthy lifestyle ( All issues that the NCT has been working towards for a long time ) . |
| 16 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
| 17 | In March it was learned that there is in existence a French organisation which has been working towards the provision of a water supply to the village of Atea and the construction of a better quality road to the village than had previously existed . |
| 18 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 19 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 20 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 21 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 22 | The system has been working for about five years now , with never a hitch . |
| 23 | San Francisco self-funded start-up Metron Technology has been working for a year and a half to develop some innovative , object-oriented , automated testing and performance debugging software for developing multi-processor and distributed Unix applications . |
| 24 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 25 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
| 26 | Allan has been working for Historic Scotland since 1986 and has gained wide-ranging experience including masonry consolidation , hewing and building of all types of stonework at sites throughout Grampian Region and the Shetland Islands . |
| 27 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 28 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 29 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 30 | The brew is still fermented for days , using the same yeast which has been working for years and years . |