Example sentences of "work [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being . |
| 2 | Landforms developed in relation to the earlier and higher base level are abandoned as erosion starts to work down to the new base level . |
| 3 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 4 | The statement reported the summit 's decision to establish a " special commission to consider the suggestions of the countries on the key aspects of co-operation within the CMEA framework and to work out in the shortest time drafts of new fundamental CMEA documents " . |
| 5 | Its daring conception , ideal in the highest sense of the word , is based on the purest truth , and wrought out with the concentrated knowledge of a life , its colour is almost perfect , not one false or morbid hue in any part or line , and so modulated that every square inch of canvas is a perfect composition ; its drawing is as accurate as fearless ; the ship buoyant , bending , and full of motion ; its tones as true as they are wonderful ; and the whole picture dedicated to the most sublime of subjects and impressions … the power , majesty and deathfulness of the open , deep , illimitable sea . |
| 6 | In this situation you should gradually work up to the 20-minute target . |
| 7 | You will probably find that the sander will not work up to the very edge of the floor , so you will have to hire a smaller unit to finish off the job . |
| 8 | There are two disadvantages to this approach ; first , it is enormously time consuming and second , the polygon topology of the input coverage is not preserved , so one can not work back to the initial coverage attributes . |
| 9 | His acceptance speech , in March 1985 , promised that the strategy worked out by the 26th Party Congress — over which Brezhnev had presided — and at subsequent meetings of the Central Committee would remain unchanged : a policy of the ‘ acceleration of the country 's socioeconomic development [ and ] the perfection of all aspects of the life of the society ’ . |
| 10 | All the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) , and the package need only be approved once for them all . |
| 11 | All the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) , and the package need only be approved once for them all . |
| 12 | More than one DC can be activated via a package at the same time , up to a maximum of 10 , and all of the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) . |
| 13 | If the project does not get into gear now and if we go back to the drawing board , it will be decades before we get another scheme that is worked through to the present level . |
| 14 | Mace believes those copyright and interface issues are now being worked through in the current round of legal skirmishes between Intel Corp and its iAPX-86 impersonators such as Advanced Micro Devices . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It had to be worked out to the finest detail and Endill went to the library to find pictures of a catapult to help them on their way . |
| 17 | A very different response to the critical approach to the Bible was worked out on the other side of the Atlantic by Charles Hodge ( 1797 — 1878 ) of Princeton , the Presbyterian seminary which came to be a veritable bastion of Calvinist orthodoxy . |
| 18 | It was enabled to continue in office until May 1979 and in the recriminations of defeat the Conservative Party polarised into the Thatcher and Heath factions , the implications of which are still only partly worked out on the political scene . |
| 19 | NI contributions are worked out on the gross pay , before all deductions . |
| 20 | It would n't have worked out with the first gentleman as it happens , because although he had a lovely smile , he was a ladies ' man and he did like drink too much . |
| 21 | The itinerary for this competition appeared to have been worked out with the sole aim of maximizing the profit of the air operators who did the transporting . |
| 22 | But in three short years the following essential features of creative sound were worked out for the first time : cut-and-splice sound editing ; dubbing mute shots ( i.e. providing library sounds for completely silent bits of film ) ; quiet cameras ; ‘ talkback ’ and other intercom systems ; ‘ boom ’ microphones ( so the mike could be placed over the actor 's head and moved as necessary ) ; equalization ; track-bouncing ; replacement of dialogue ( including alternative languages ) ; filtering ( for removing traffic noise , wind noise , or for simulating telephone conversations ) ; busbars for routing controlled amounts of foldback or reverberation ; three-track recording ( music , effects , and dialogue , any of which could be changed as necessary ) ; automatic volume limiters ; and synchronous playback ( for dance or mimed shots ) . |
| 23 | In April 1983 , however , the main features of a draft agreement on a comprehensive settlement of the Afghan question were worked out for the first time during the United Nations-sponsored talks in Geneva . |
| 24 | In a period of cultural stability , the infantile , irrational demands of the superego which conflicted with the mature superego could be worked out in the analytic process . |
| 25 | Many new and fascinating approaches can be worked out in the voluntary setting and provide a base for constructive criticism of statutory provision and a fund of enthusiasm for change . |
| 26 | The balance it had to seek between guarding standards and promoting institutional development was worked out in the constant attention to the details of courses and the means of their delivery , in subject areas pioneered by the NCTA , and in the new — and sometimes unique — programmes being considered and approved . |
| 27 | Mortar shots are worked out in the same way as shots from stone throwers . |
| 28 | The space inside the small cube is called 1 cubic centimetre ( cm3 ) and is worked out in the same way . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | This very simplified picture has been worked out by the detailed work of pollen analysts studying fossil pollen grains from bogs , marshes and lakes . |