Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adj] [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 2 | In Leeds Private Hospital Ltd v Parkin [ 1992 ] 453 IRLIB 3 , the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld an industrial tribunal decision that a man with a known disability who had been absent from work for four days , as had the pregnant employee in this case , would not have been dismissed . |
| 3 | The sections had been hard at work since 0600 hours , and they had been very successful at keeping all the teams on the road . |
| 4 | In all available time not devoted to teaching , to domestic life or to friendship , Lewis had been hard at work , ever since the late 1920s , on the book which was to become The Allegory of Love . |
| 5 | Beyond yet another bridge , for Victorian ingenuity had been hard at work here , I came across a torrential waterfall labelled ‘ salmon weir , . |
| 6 | At the trial of the action in 1979 Reeve J declined to take into account the supervening spinal disease and awarded damages on the basis that the plaintiff had been capable of light work , not on the basis that he had been incapable of work since 1976 in consequence of a disease for which his employers were in no way responsible . |