Example sentences of "a [noun] to work [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
| 2 | He had read the script of Five Easy Pieces , whose title , it did not need a genius to work out , was designed to link back to Easy Rider ( though there were no physical connections whatsoever , apart from Nicholson himself , and the thematic stance of Easy Rider . ) |
| 3 | You did n't have to be a genius to work out they were n't from the Lord 's Day Observance Society . |
| 4 | ‘ It was going all right , but now it wo n't go at all , ’ she added more slowly , as she struggled for composure and it dawned on her that with a GB plate stuck on the back of her car that it would n't take a genius to work out that she was probably English . |
| 5 | you do n't need imagination or a calculator to work out that Cresta are still the top Paris specialists . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It took him a second to work out what it was , that it was the sheep galloping . |
| 8 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 9 | The visiting team has formed a CAT to work out how further product improvements can be introduced . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It took me a moment to work out what was going on . |
| 12 | Pausing a moment to work out the best route , the Doctor set off to find a stair leading down . |
| 13 | It took him a moment to work out what was going on . |
| 14 | You can have a room to work in , anything you need . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Just give me a room to work in , and the rest of the time I 'll keep out of your way as much as I possibly can . |
| 16 | I 'll give you a room to work in , I 'll turn round and walk the other way whenever I see you , and I 'll stay out of the kitchen whenever you want to use it . |
| 17 | On another occasion an out-of-work blacksmith came and said that " if the parish would not find him a shop to work in , he would make his complaint to a justice " . |
| 18 | Something here is not quite as it should be , and it takes a while to work out exactly what it is … |
| 19 | I knew I made a mistake , marrying young , but it took me a while to work out what was wrong . |
| 20 | It took me a while to work out that it was now Saturday . |
| 21 | So we 're going to do this exercise within this room and we 'll need to rearrange the tables , so I suggest that each group as having one table or two tables , put it in a square to work around . |
| 22 | A more rigorous church system , which in any case allowed them a chance to work out their own salvation , may not have seemed too high a price . |
| 23 | Sabraxis had given him a schedule to work through , most of which he knew already as it was based upon traditional pieces . |
| 24 | But a football insider said : ‘ You do n't have to be a mastermind to work out the reason . ’ |
| 25 | Studies on savants who can tell you the day of the week on which you were born found that they followed the rules of a calendar to work out the dates . |
| 26 | In fact it is more of a puzzle to work out why it took so many decades to become established ( Hatton 1986 ) . |
| 27 | See a counsellor to work out what would be best for you . |
| 28 | Because I think it gives us er it 's got a lot of common things in , it gives us a baseline to work on |
| 29 | There is , then , yet a third way of being systematic with regard to project work , and that is for a school to work out a definite policy on how it should be approached and which particular skills should be stressed at which levels . |
| 30 | A school is not a business , but it is important for a school to work out what kind of a business it is in order to make the complexity manageable … |