Example sentences of "[noun] work [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is theoretically possible in each case to work out the maximum sustainable yield , and to determine which classes of the animal — superfluous young ones , superfluous males , old ones — can safely be caught without damaging the stocks . |
| 2 | It does n't improve his nerves now to see me sitting on his carpet timing Casey 's phone rings with my stopwatch to work out the number he dialled . |
| 3 | kilometres per hour to work out the time it takes we do four thousand divided by three er eight hundred and fifty . |
| 4 | PWMI has studies these sectors to work out the average lifetime for the material in the market . |
| 5 | But when Uccello died in his eighties , ‘ He left a daughter who could design , and a wife who used to say that Paolo would remain the night long in his study to work out the lines of his perspective , and that when she called him to come to rest , he replied , ‘ Oh what a sweet thing this perspective is ! ’ |
| 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 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 8 | But I was a little person in er a commu community of little person and er my brothers worked down the pit and I believe it was an advantage not to be much greater than five foot in height down the pits . |
| 9 | Between them , Raymond Cusick and Bill Roberts worked out the practicalities of making the Dalek . |
| 10 | In this way , Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies . |
| 11 | USL and SunSoft have spent the last few months working out the commercial implications of the ABI on delivery schedules and compatibility issues . |
| 12 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 13 | Hardy needed three rounds to work out the Mexican southpaw before taking over . |
| 14 | Oh shame it 's a bloke works up the bank |
| 15 | The piste groomers work around the clock to grind up the snow which , because it possesses a denser molecular structure than the real thing , compacts easily into ice . |
| 16 | However , there was no facility to simply draw a line and let the computer work out the curves . |
| 17 | Pausing a moment to work out the best route , the Doctor set off to find a stair leading down . |
| 18 | Last week the first practical steps towards such a union were taken when leaders of the RPR , UDF and UDC met and agreed to form a tactical group to work out the most effective means of opposing the government . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She may have acted over-cautiously in rejecting the proposals but Ms Radice was obviously on her best behaviour as legislators work out the budget for fiscal year 1993 , which begins 1 October . |
| 21 | You do n't have to remember all of them , cos if you remember one you just need a little bit of maths to work out the others . |
| 22 | If one works in logarithms , the relationship between y and x becomes linear : Hence , it is quite simple for accountants to work out the learning rate for their industry/firm by converting observations of y and x to logarithms and regressing log x against log y . |
| 23 | But a football insider said : ‘ You do n't have to be a mastermind to work out the reason . ’ |
| 24 | As things worked out the hat/rabbit analogy was nearer the truth than anyone suspected . |
| 25 | as if by a flash of lightning , I awoke as if struck by lightning ; this time again I spent the rest of the night working out the consequences . |
| 26 | It is the fight choreographer working out the moves for Leonard 's struggle to the death with Otto . |
| 27 | They took that into account when building their third house , in a small development off a country lane on the Highgate side of Kenwood , but stuck to their usual system of Geoffrey working out the designs with a lot of input from Elaine . |
| 28 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 29 | As is pointed out by Clark , ‘ there is no doubt that writing long courses is time consuming ’ and the participation of the librarian ‘ should be confined to teaching library skills ’ , leaving the programmer and educational technologist to work out the coding of the material . |
| 30 | When the assistant worked out the overall cost I was astounded . |