Example sentences of "[noun sg] work [adv prt] [art] " 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 | Both Gimbert and Lascubé argued that it was Griffiths who was responsible for the collapsed scrums , but obviously Gimbert 's inexperience played a part in his inability to work out a solution . |
| 4 | kilometres per hour to work out the time it takes we do four thousand divided by three er eight hundred and fifty . |
| 5 | * The Ukrainian government has decided to hold an international contest to work out a method of converting the fourth reactor at Chernobyl into an environmentally safe system . |
| 6 | 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 ! ’ |
| 7 | Commissioners were appointed on either side to work out an agreed formula which would cover differences in legal systems , taxation discrepancies , the coinages — which were still quite distinct — and above all the religious rights of Episcopalians , Presbyterians , Cameronians and others who had reason to be wary of the Church of England . |
| 8 | A brisk walk around the bailey to work up an appetite sounded good , and a glance at the Prior , who was still shaking his head gloomily over his drinking-horn , convinced him that there was no more to be gained by pushing the issue . |
| 9 | At the end of September 1949 , therefore , Smith was himself seconded to the BEA to work on sorting out this problem , and he was in fact to stay , in a sustained attempt to work out a better contracts system , thus further strengthening the BEA 's management of the construction programme . |
| 10 | Israel 's Foreign Minister , David Levi , simply stated that there was " nothing new " in the speech , whereas the hardline Housing Minister Ariel Sharon , angered by Bush 's reference to a " land for peace " formula , called for an immediate convening of the ruling Likud central committee to work out a response . |
| 11 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 12 | Lesioning the hippocampus , however , profoundly damages the rat 's capacity to learn or remember the spatial cues and thus dramatically impairs its capacity to work out an effective escape route in the tank . |
| 13 | Oh shame it 's a bloke works up the bank |
| 14 | However , there was no facility to simply draw a line and let the computer work out the curves . |
| 15 | Pausing a moment to work out the best route , the Doctor set off to find a stair leading down . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There are now signs that this failure to work out a coherent relationship between the two logics of approach will have to be addressed and in some cases this task has already been started . |
| 19 | In the centre of the hut stood a tall coke stove , blackened from use , deep in dust , and its chimney stack climbed to the ceiling and through its open hatch there was the glow of fuel working out a second day 's burning . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But a football insider said : ‘ You do n't have to be a mastermind to work out the reason . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I could be at home playing with my computerised banking system or working out how my new pocket modem works over a glass or two of fermented Bulgarian Ribena . |
| 24 | A drug specialist service works out a withdrawal programme with her GP who introduces her to a support group and individual counselling . |
| 25 | It is the fight choreographer working out the moves for Leonard 's struggle to the death with Otto . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The third method is for central planning to work out every detail of the plan and ask the departments to follow the plan exactly . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One German dog breeder worked out a way to have his cake and eat it . |
| 30 | The first effective English settlement in the West Indies , founded in 1624 , was on the island of St. Christopher ( later called St. Kitts ) which was shared with the French , informally at first and then by a formal partition worked out a couple of years later which lasted until the British gained the whole island in 1713 . |