Example sentences of "[be] work [adv prt] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Whereas in the wild , the effect of a burst of adrenaline would be worked off by the strenuous exercise ( running for your life ) that followed , this does not happen when the adrenaline is generated by an unpleasant encounter with a bank manager or traffic warden . |
2 | The details of this release must be worked out by the international Red Cross . |
3 | The electron velocity at the point z may be worked out by the simple consideration that the electron gains kinetic energy at the expense of its potential energy ( the same idea as in mechanics ) . |
4 | I shall leave that to be worked out by the political analysts . |
5 | Germans and Hungarians would be eligible for restitution , under legislation to be worked out by the Czech and Slovak parliaments , provided that they had not been " transferred abroad " in 1945 and that they had proclaimed themselves Czechoslovak citizens . |
6 | Unfortunately , it is not always these States which exert the most influence at ICAO divisional meetings where the policies are worked out by the national delegates that attend . |
7 | Such principles are those which have been worked out by the larger society , not doctors alone , and which embody the moral , philosophical , and spiritual assumptions of that society . |
8 | This very simplified picture has been worked out by the detailed work of pollen analysts studying fossil pollen grains from bogs , marshes and lakes . |
9 | It was worked out by the Austrian ethologist Karl von Frisch in the middle of this century , by methods we shall discuss in the next section . |