Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ! ’ |
| 5 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 6 | Oh shame it 's a bloke works up the bank |
| 7 | However , there was no facility to simply draw a line and let the computer work out the curves . |
| 8 | Pausing a moment to work out the best route , the Doctor set off to find a stair leading down . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But a football insider said : ‘ You do n't have to be a mastermind to work out the reason . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is the fight choreographer working out the moves for Leonard 's struggle to the death with Otto . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When the assistant worked out the overall cost I was astounded . |
| 18 | When you shoot the Repeater Pistol work out the first shot normally . |
| 19 | How can a demoralised off-licence manager work up the enthusiasm to sell what an increasingly adventurous customer has no desire to buy ? |
| 20 | Analysing how the firm works and breaking that down into work which demands your professional training and expertise and work which does not is more important , since it allows the firm to work out the computer applications it needs . |
| 21 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 22 | No doubt the word as used by infants will occur on its own , without the added term , and adults satisfying the need will work out the missing term from context . |
| 23 | I go to sleep working out the day 's calories , and my dreams are always of food . |
| 24 | Use the following information to work out the value of sales : |
| 25 | Studies on savants who can tell you the day of the week on which you were born found that they followed the rules of a calendar to work out the dates . |
| 26 | Generally , it will make sense to use whatever information is available to develop an interpretation — use both mental model and representation of surface form to work out the meaning of both deep and surface anaphors . |
| 27 | This option is included in the ADJUST section of the program , together with other options that will determine how the program works out the knitting instructions . |
| 28 | The user answers the prompts on the screen and the program works out the date for return ( 21 days after the date of loan ) . |
| 29 | The program works down the hierarchical spaces , rotating them to achieve a zero rotational error in each sub-space between the actual end of the mechanism and the reference point . |
| 30 | You can now use straightforward mathematics to work out the distance between your finger and your face . |