Example sentences of "[was/were] work on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were working on a case last year . ’ |
| 2 | In devising scores you were working on a mixture of recession and non-recession models . |
| 3 | Seven groups were working on a range of subjects including anti-dumping rules , market access , textiles , intellectual property , services and provisions for settling disputes , as well as agriculture . |
| 4 | They were working on a suggestion , made by George Gamow ( once a student of Alexander Friedmann ) , that the early universe should have been very hot and dense , glowing white hot . |
| 5 | ‘ They were working on a weld when there was a leak . |
| 6 | THE United Nations said that 20 Brazilian and 50 Russian workers had been kidnapped by opposition soldiers in eastern Angola , where they were working on a Congo River dam project . |
| 7 | The men were working on a maintenance gantry suspended beneath the bridge when the gantry collapsed throwing the men more than a hundred feet into the river below . |
| 8 | The steersman pointed downriver to where men were working on a scaffolding which stretched out across the river . |
| 9 | Walkinshaw happened to mention that his motor group TWR Ltd were working on a deal with a retail garage business to form a company which would be floated off within five years . |
| 10 | All of us were working on no salary , just expenses , but we found nice facilities on 58th Street and were taught to charge everything . |
| 11 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |
| 12 | Shortly after the IDA applied for planning permission , 46 workers representing eight trade unions who were working on the construction of the Raybestos factory issued a statement : |
| 13 | There seems little doubt that all over the country inventive minds were working on the problem in different ways but the solution came in an unusual fashion . |
| 14 | When we brought this to Lowe 's attention they said they were working on the problem . |
| 15 | These problems were not strange to the Prague School , who were working on the semiotics of art about twenty years before Barthes . |
| 16 | During the last year erm when we were working on the requirement , we carried out a number of erm comparisons descoping or aircraft in various respects . |
| 17 | ‘ Capron said he knew you were working on the Mills case and that we must have discussed it together . ’ |
| 18 | How many officers were working on the case at the height of its investigation ? |
| 19 | But I you know hopeful I know that th th th quite a large and high numbers but what we agreed was if we were working on the basis of something like on one person every six weeks |
| 20 | One person stated that the government was unwilling to evaluate itself about how its policies were working on the ground . |
| 21 | John Dunlop from Springburn and John Rodgers from Lenzie were working on the scaffolding in Albion Street when the incident occurred . |
| 22 | The DIY was given a lower priority from then on but , even when they were working on the house , the mood changed enormously . |
| 23 | At least they were working on the complex that day , at least the civilian contractors had been able to bribe their private work force to cross the picket lines . |
| 24 | A group of geophysicists who were working on the rocks of the floor of the north-east Pacific had discovered , before Hess 's suggestion was published , that instead of a random pattern of reversals , such as were common on land , the oceanic crust in the Pacific exhibited a pattern of ‘ strip reversals ’ ; the rocks in each strip were magnetized in one fixed direction , but the rocks in alternate , parallel strips were magnetized in the reverse direction . |
| 25 | 3 men were working on the gantry when it fell from beneath the Severn Bridge in September 1990 . |
| 26 | As the teachers all had full-time commitments outside the project , they were only able to meet when the pupils were working on the project . |
| 27 | The three men were working on the bridge when a cradle supporting them collapsed ; nineteen year old Mark Seaton from Chepstow in Gwent says he knows he 's lucky but what he feels most is anger . |
| 28 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 29 | I try to work against the way I was taught , which was to work on the paintings as a whole and bring things up to a certain degree of finish . |
| 30 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |