Example sentences of "[art] work [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The cost of the work had been met piecemeal by the state as the network has developed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The search firm chosen depended on a mixture of the clients own requirements for the assignment , its past experience with individual headhunters — based on how good the particular consultant doing the work had been — and ‘ how we like their presentation ’ . |
| 5 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 6 | He further maintained that the work had been carried out as agreed . |
| 7 | She 'd never been left completely alone before ; for the space of a phonecall or an errand , perhaps , but never to the extent that the final responsibility for any of the work had been hers . |
| 8 | The work had been far from her thoughts all evening . |
| 9 | For the last six months , since her return from Africa , the work had been heavy and continuous . |
| 10 | And if the work had been put out to tender , savings to the council might have been £5m , the report found . |
| 11 | ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 12 | There was some doubt as to whether the cleaner was an independent contractor , but the occupiers were held liable as they had failed to take reasonable steps to check that the work had been reasonably done : " The craft of the charwoman may have its mysteries but there is no esoteric quality in the nature of the work which the cleaning of a snow covered step demands . " |
| 13 | A spokesman for Dowty 's says the work had been expected by Dowty landing gear ; and so it wo n't affect the request for workers to take a pay freeze . |
| 14 | EC laws would have closed the business down next January unless the work had been allowed . |
| 15 | 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 . |