Example sentences of "been work on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doris Clay , part-time barmaid , had not been to work on Friday evening nor over the weekend . |
| 2 | Visual contact : this last week McGeechan will have been working on videos , preparing training sessions . |
| 3 | With the University of California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena , Unisys has been working on Intel-based five by five Hypercube hubs , which can be clustered together , either in-cabinet or externally , connected through JPL 's Hyperswitch firmware and front-ended by a serial fibre optic link . |
| 4 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 5 | In Wales there is a nationally agreed pupil profile ; and many groups of schools or Local Authorities in England have been working on forms of profiling that would be objective and intelligible . |
| 6 | While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain . |
| 7 | It has been working on NuTcracker since the beginning of the year . |
| 8 | A zoologist by training , he had been working on specimens collected by the Challenger Expedition . |
| 9 | Lately he has been working on paintings of trees , large-sized drawings of nudes , painted low-reliefs in wood and a series of portraits of poets in which snippets from their work are inscribed ( Beats Alan Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appear in the show ) . |
| 10 | They 've been working on Sarah 's today . |
| 11 | Scientists at Smith Kline Beecham have been working on Havrix for eight years . |
| 12 | The Macclesfield firm had also , since 1763 , been working on Parys Mountain , Anglesey , and during 1768 his men discovered a most remarkable copper deposit . |
| 13 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
| 14 | The th the snapshot is that we 've looked at twenty eight jobs , and out of those twenty eight jobs , if we have been working on scale fees , it would appear that we would have lost money on twenty of them . |
| 15 | If they had been working on fruit trees they 'd come in much higher . |
| 16 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 17 | They 've been working on farms , it seems . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Eaton and colleague Ron Siddle had been working on sea fasteners , fixed to the barge to stop the module moving . |
| 19 | Work at the new Virtual Reality facility will be based on research and development already performed by the partners — LPAC member Queen Mary & Westfield College , for example , has been working on imaging , human computer interfaces and visualisation . |
| 20 | Ian Luder , head of Arthur Andersen 's executive and personal taxation services group , says that ‘ the more that I have been working on employee schemes , the more convinced I am that there is an impact ’ . |
| 21 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 22 | Members have been working on designs for an antipollution poster . |
| 23 | Cos me and my brother had been working on wagon again . |
| 24 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 25 | SITPRO , the UK 's ‘ Simpler Trades Procedures Board ’ , has been working on EDI standards for two decades . |
| 26 | Scientists at the ARC 's institute for research on animal diseases , near Newbury , have been working on ways of reducing the risk of spreading diseases with slurry . |
| 27 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 28 | One of his deputies , Helmut Wohltat , has been working on behalf of your Sir Robert Vansittart for years , even , feeding information . |
| 29 | Since returning from New Zealand the Irish squad has been working on fitness programmes under the guidance of Dr. John Kirwan , who heads the national training centre at Thomond College in Limerick . |
| 30 | From 1973 the Health Protection and Environment Directorates of the European Commission had also been working on measures to control wastes and ‘ trace ’ substances in water : they adopted a 50mg/litre nitrate limit for the 1980 Directive Relating to the Quality of Water Intended for Human Consumption ( 80/778/EEC ) , which also controls pesticides and metals . |