Example sentences of "been working [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the river had still been working with any serious use of its productive capacity , this presentation of delightful monuments would not have been possible . |
| 2 | Graydon has been working with several large UK organisations on a remedial approach to corporate risk assessment |
| 3 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 6 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 7 | Although fitted with an alarm courtesy of the Venice in Peril Fund , this had not been working for some time . |
| 8 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
| 9 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 10 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 11 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 12 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 14 | How long have you been working on that ? |
| 15 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 16 | Additionally , the fact that this part of the movement was written out by Leopold suggests that Mozart may have been working on another part of the symphony while his father was copying the part that already existed . |
| 17 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 18 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 19 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |
| 20 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 22 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 23 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 24 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 25 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 27 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 28 | We hmm , now , young ladies , how long have you been working on this ? |
| 29 | Mm , somebody 's been working on this though have n't they ? |
| 30 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |