Example sentences of "work [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam . |
| 2 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 3 | Some of the President 's advisers on industrial recovery wanted a national plan , with the Federal government in command ; others wanted business and government to work out a scheme of co-operation on a voluntary basis . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is best to work out a pattern in advance and draw it out on same graph paper . |
| 6 | ‘ Our Quality Charter states that NICMA members are expected to work out a policy on discipline which does not include smacking children , ’ she said . |
| 7 | It was always wise to work out a line of retreat as well as a line of approach . |
| 8 | It is suggested that governments , in managing the economy , have to work out a trade-off between inflation and the level of employment . |
| 9 | There is plenty of room for debate about this calculation — over how to guess at future cash flows , over what period to take , over how to work out the cost of capital , to name but three . |
| 10 | Our aim is first to determine the variation of electric field as a function of radius and then to work out the capacitance per unit length . |
| 11 | I would advise anyone taking up such offers to work out the amount of fabric required and the normal retail price of curtain tape and hooks in advance as a way of calculating whether or not the cost is fair . |
| 12 | There is evidence of a stampede as meat-eating theropods attacked a herd of herbivorous hypsilophodontids browsing in a region of Australia , and some paleontologists have managed to work out the method of attack of the predators and the defensive posture of the herds . |
| 13 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 14 | It is possible , by examination and experiment , to work out the process of manufacture in many cases , and as much of the technology used in the past is still in use today , this boils down to testing hypotheses ( rather than guesswork ) . |
| 15 | Our first technology course team meeting was held in August 1992 to work out the logistics of travel and timetabling between the college and the schools . |
| 16 | ‘ First of all , I need to sit down and work out a plan of campaign . ’ |
| 17 | Erm did n't say you 'll go back and work out a plan of attack for me or did you ? |
| 18 | It was up to her to try and work out a plan of escape , but without expert help that was n't going to be easy . |
| 19 | It was agreed that a joint group of experts or deputy foreign ministers from Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland would prepare a joint stand at the next Helsinki conference in 1991 , while another group would work out a plan of action for " entering Europe " . |
| 20 | Next let us work out the capacitance per unit surface area . |
| 21 | The French stance emerged after the EC 's chief trade negotiator affirmed his belief that Europe and the US could work out the dispute over farm subsidies and avert full-scale trade war . |
| 22 | The employee need not work out the period of notice if he prefers not to , although he loses his right to wages in lieu of notice . |
| 23 | With some of the other interested officers I worked out a syllabus for training selected junior officers in the rudiments of seamanship and navigation using Venturous as a practical training ship . |
| 24 | Rawlings worked out a procedure for network meetings similar to that used in a child abuse case conference . |
| 25 | Over the last few years we had worked out a system of radio communication and coded grid references for use in joint exercises and actual operations against smuggling . |
| 26 | As a result of this and other difficulties involved in the buying and selling of sheltered housing , the National House Building Council together with Age Concern and a number of major developers and management organisations , has worked out a code of conduct with which all new schemes registered with the NHBC must now comply . |
| 27 | The mix of keening voices , dreamy storylines and unusual , far-off sounds brings to mind The Band when they were on a roll , and David Hidalgo in particular sounds like he 's done his best ever work — conjuring up old ghosts and loser friends and working up a deal of sadness and unique moods from familiar instruments . |
| 28 | Work out work out a scheme for spelling and presentation . |
| 29 | Work out an order of assembly , building up one side of the frame at a time . |
| 30 | you work out the tone of voice they 're using ; |