Example sentences of "to work [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at this point I decided to modify the router fence with two aluminium blocks which allowed me to work off that face but beneath the area I wanted to machine away . |
| 2 | She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself . |
| 3 | An inability to work up any enthusiasm for an Everton attack . |
| 4 | We 're trying to work up some passion for the pageant . |
| 5 | ‘ It does n't take a rocket scientist to work out that doubling productivity , and therefore halving the number of wells we have to drill , will greatly improve the economics of our activities in Colombia . ’ |
| 6 | The Cabinet ended its marathon session to work out 1993/94 spending yesterday . |
| 7 | We need two people for this , to work out this function . |
| 8 | and they said I want to work out this angle . |
| 9 | If your spreadsheet does n't have a formula to work out this calculation directly , you can base one on the textbook formula for the sum of a geometric progression : |
| 10 | You had to work out this thing he was thinking of , and he gave two dues . |
| 11 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 12 | If the Revenue is unwilling to publish an annual list , the only practicable alternative is to base the charge on the cost of the car , since it would be burdensome to expect employers to work out this information for themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ Who is it ? ’ she asked warily , her brain trying to work out some excuse if it was one of her friends . |
| 14 | So you 've just got to work out some way that 'll make sense to you for remembering which way round they go and probably one good way is just write them out quite a few times think of a lot of words beginning with D. |
| 15 | Husbands need to be understanding of this and both need to work out some sort of plan or schedule of rest for her . |
| 16 | Despite its shortcomings and my own , working on Switchboard gave me the tools to work out some sort of political consciousness , the level of articulacy required to stand up for what I started to believe in and the confidence to take the sort of shit that comes to any woman who does that , anywhere . |
| 17 | For the last couple of days I have frantically been trying to work out some sort of compromise , but whichever way I look at it , I just do not have the cash to flee the country . |
| 18 | Now , there are one or two things we still need to discuss , so we 'll leave you and Mr Calder to work out some sort of timetable between yourselves . ’ |
| 19 | We 've never in the past looked in detail at the total work content to work out these time units , after all in the past , we 've known what the client wants , we 've been giving him it for years . |