Example sentences of "[verb] [been] working [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The system using freezing instead of hot branding has been working for 12 years and the firm has now won a Royal Warrant . |
| 4 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 5 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 6 | Rainow , Cheshire-based Eden says that it has been working with unnamed telecommunications operators and user groups on the design of the phone , and envisages both business customers and consumers being interested in the device . |
| 7 | Dr Jenkins , from Leicester University , has been working on two compounds found in English yew and has recently been joined by Dr Nick Lawrence of Manchester University . |
| 8 | The start-up company has been working on four lines of development , all using its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc implementation and the VME bus . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 11 | Following on from his recent installations , the Argentinean artist has been working on moveable objects consisting of a wooden surface , on which he draws in graphite or coloured pastels , and a superimposed sheet of lead some distance from the base . |
| 12 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |
| 13 | The Wales-based artist Alex Beleschenko has been working in recent years on large-scale architectural commissions for stained glass . |
| 14 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
| 15 | It is crucial to identify the source of the methane in order to be able to devise appropriate remedies , and FPG has been working in this area for some time . |
| 16 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 17 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 20 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mr Wilson said that police forces had been working with inadequate law for years and that the drafted change would , it was hoped , improve the situation . |
| 23 | By the time of his trial , Father Lynch , a former missionary in Africa , had been working with gay Catholics in the city for nearly ten years . |
| 24 | Booker had been working at Liberal News and , after receiving a letter from Usborne , whose proto-satirical magazine Mesopotamia at Oxford had centred around Foot , Ingrams , and John Wells , the product hit the streets or rather those streets in South Kensington to which Andrew Osmond , another Oxford contemporary , chose to distribute it . |
| 25 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 26 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 27 | His colleague Gwyn Meirion-Jones , had been working on various building types beginning with peasant houses . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The men had been working on 415 volt switchgear at Caldervale High School . |
| 30 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |