Example sentences of "[noun] to work out [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is theoretically possible in each case to work out the maximum sustainable yield , and to determine which classes of the animal — superfluous young ones , superfluous males , old ones — can safely be caught without damaging the stocks .
2 It does n't improve his nerves now to see me sitting on his carpet timing Casey 's phone rings with my stopwatch to work out the number he dialled .
3 Both Gimbert and Lascubé argued that it was Griffiths who was responsible for the collapsed scrums , but obviously Gimbert 's inexperience played a part in his inability to work out a solution .
4 kilometres per hour to work out the time it takes we do four thousand divided by three er eight hundred and fifty .
5 PWMI has studies these sectors to work out the average lifetime for the material in the market .
6 John Shepherd ( 1977 ; 1982 ) , by contrast , has used McLuhan to work out a carefully constructed theory .
7 * The Ukrainian government has decided to hold an international contest to work out a method of converting the fourth reactor at Chernobyl into an environmentally safe system .
8 But when Uccello died in his eighties , ‘ He left a daughter who could design , and a wife who used to say that Paolo would remain the night long in his study to work out the lines of his perspective , and that when she called him to come to rest , he replied , ‘ Oh what a sweet thing this perspective is ! ’
9 Commissioners were appointed on either side to work out an agreed formula which would cover differences in legal systems , taxation discrepancies , the coinages — which were still quite distinct — and above all the religious rights of Episcopalians , Presbyterians , Cameronians and others who had reason to be wary of the Church of England .
10 At the end of September 1949 , therefore , Smith was himself seconded to the BEA to work on sorting out this problem , and he was in fact to stay , in a sustained attempt to work out a better contracts system , thus further strengthening the BEA 's management of the construction programme .
11 It did n't take a Freud to work out the significance of that dream , she thought dully , making her way to the tiny cabinet which the hotel proprietors chose to call a private bathroom .
12 Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) .
13 Israel 's Foreign Minister , David Levi , simply stated that there was " nothing new " in the speech , whereas the hardline Housing Minister Ariel Sharon , angered by Bush 's reference to a " land for peace " formula , called for an immediate convening of the ruling Likud central committee to work out a response .
14 Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it .
15 Lesioning the hippocampus , however , profoundly damages the rat 's capacity to learn or remember the spatial cues and thus dramatically impairs its capacity to work out an effective escape route in the tank .
16 Hardy needed three rounds to work out the Mexican southpaw before taking over .
17 Opening the session , which had been preceded by a standing committee meeting , the Prime Minister of Pakistan and current chair of the organization , Benazir Bhutto , called on the seven member countries to work out a partnership to meet their security concerns , as well as the social and economic means to realize the potential of the region as an economic power .
18 Pausing a moment to work out the best route , the Doctor set off to find a stair leading down .
19 Last week the first practical steps towards such a union were taken when leaders of the RPR , UDF and UDC met and agreed to form a tactical group to work out the most effective means of opposing the government .
20 On another occasion , I had asked a group to work out the ‘ best buy ’ between a 25 cl can of wine at £1.19 and a 150 cl bottle at £4.59 .
21 This was the sixth show , so I had six days to work out a new act .
22 There are now signs that this failure to work out a coherent relationship between the two logics of approach will have to be addressed and in some cases this task has already been started .
23 You do n't have to remember all of them , cos if you remember one you just need a little bit of maths to work out the others .
24 The staff development day which is to follow shortly afterwards is to be used by the different year teams to work out a programme of study .
25 If one works in logarithms , the relationship between y and x becomes linear : Hence , it is quite simple for accountants to work out the learning rate for their industry/firm by converting observations of y and x to logarithms and regressing log x against log y .
26 But a football insider said : ‘ You do n't have to be a mastermind to work out the reason . ’
27 The third method is for central planning to work out every detail of the plan and ask the departments to follow the plan exactly .
28 As is pointed out by Clark , ‘ there is no doubt that writing long courses is time consuming ’ and the participation of the librarian ‘ should be confined to teaching library skills ’ , leaving the programmer and educational technologist to work out the coding of the material .
29 As I have already mentioned , nearly all of the work can be carried out by hand ; useful hand-tools include a coping saw , spokeshave ( for curved work ) scraper and sliding bevel , callipers to work out the thickness of curved sections , and a pair of sash cramps .
30 On 30 May Ho left by plane for France to work out a settlement .
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