Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] work [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Then snooker might work out and measure up , with everything going where you want it to go , at the right weight and angle .
2 From their respective sites at Stowmarket and Peterborough , Prentice and Alcock could work out the heights and paths of the dust particles by triangulation , showing that these sporadic meteors were members of the Solar System , in contradiction to the view of professional astronomers in the United States who believed that they entered from interstellar space .
3 They both convey information from which the hearer could work out how well B got on with semantics that week .
4 Well , people that I spoke to , spoken to from Cardiff , they they originally got involved because one of the lads used to work up in the factory , the chairman of their labour club , and after that I do n't , politically you know it started off completely non political , but after a while people latched on to it as a dispute that could be won , and you know that would be one up for the workers and the country .
5 In 1981 , the corporation argued to a House of Lords Select Committee that the tenure mix within the LDDC would work out at about 50 per cent owner-occupied , 25 per cent shared-equity tenure and 25 per cent housing association .
6 We are at the Red Flag stage with IT , and it is hardly possible to anticipate how the future will work out .
7 This top London salon will work out a personalised hairdressing programme for any bride to suit her budget .
8 Rival candidates will work up a lather over racial tensions , law and order , and the latest agenda of the gay-rights movement for the city 's schools .
9 The Nation 's Schools , Butler 's official pamphlet of 1945 , gestured vaguely towards freedom and liveliness , but not much else : ‘ Free from the pressure of any external examination these schools can work out the best and liveliest forms of secondary education suited to their pupils . ’
10 But it 's a shame that Dell could n't have put the vacant DRAM or SIP sockets on the motherboard , as I suspect the 128Kb board might work out cheaper than loose chips .
11 For instance , the planners should work out if it is in the organisation 's best interest to move into an existing building and whether such a building needs any refurbishment or , whether premises should be custom built .
12 The planners must work out in which order departments , functions or sites move and who will be responsible in each for overseeing the removal process .
13 Allowing 10 minutes per client for collection each week , assuming the collector gets rather less than average industrial earnings and himself copes with all the paperwork involved during those 10 minutes , and assuming that the trading check firm pays the shops where the check has been used ( less its commission — perhaps 12½ per cent ) about a month after writing the check , the actual return to the lender would work out at only 7 per cent — that is to say , less than the firm 's own borrowing costs would be , even without making any allowance for either bad debts and late payments or office overheads .
14 We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route .
15 Although the price of a dishwasher may seem expensive , the costs of actually running the machine can work out to be far less than for washing-up by hand .
16 The K mesons live long enough to produce tracks in the CLEO detector , so the team could work back from detected K mesons to hunt for those that seemed likely to have originated from a B meson .
17 No matter how long it took , she said , those who were left in South Ronaldsay would work out shifts on the various farms .
18 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 " .
19 A 2 per cent discount for cash would work out at £400 a year but then there is the embarrassment of haggling in front of clients . ’
20 However , both parties agreed to form a transitional government and agreed that the Czech and Slovak regional parliaments would work out the future constitutional set-up by Sept. 30 , 1992 .
21 The cost of the service is between £300 and £500 per day , during which the team can work through about eight to 10 specimens .
22 When chasing a flying insect , the bat can work out the direction and speed of the insect from the slight changes in frequency of the echoes bouncing off it .
23 Brilliant you see , he 's done it for so many years can work out the space and everything .
24 This process can work out expensive but you can achieve the look of long hair instantly !
25 The costs mount up when you buy a home , and if you are selling too , your move can work out to be extremely expensive , requiring a large budget .
26 Then Ted can work out a market price and phone it through to you in a day or so .
27 The Noble Earl , Lord has given one o one illustration of how things might work out in practice , perhaps I could have a shot at another .
28 Then , when you married John I … well , I just hoped that things would work out for you and for Fiona and myself .
29 But why did n't you tell me that things would work out ? ’
30 Section two takes the reader into the abc implementation ; a course that only the most dedicated of accountants will work through .
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