Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] work out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their responsibility was to see that the rosters were properly worked out you see . |
| 2 | Mr Kinnock argued that most pay structures were not worked out by reference to the lowest-paid . |
| 3 | ’ The great organisations of the masses … in the past were not worked out by any theoretical elite or vanguard … the new organisations will come as Lilburnes Leveller Party came , as the sections and popular societies of Paris in 1793 , as the Commune in 1871 and the Soviets in 1905 , with not a single soul having any concrete ideas about them until they appeared in all their power and glory ’ . |
| 4 | Many of the details of the division were not worked out . |
| 5 | Defence chiefs were yesterday working out how to flood the area with more troops armed with heavy artillery , radar , and ground-to-air missiles . |
| 6 | Since that moment the hold of the general theory on the imagination strengthened as each new successful test enhanced confidence in it and as its potent implications were gradually worked out . |
| 7 | When the friends met at his apartment on Fridays , " no specific projects or plots were ever worked out , but criticisms of the existing order were voiced , as were gibes and regrets about our present condition " . |
| 8 | In a progress report on Sun 's year-old Open Graphics Initiative , Doug Schiff , international director for the programme , said all of Adobe 's products would be available for Sun Sparcsystems by the autumn , but that the two companies were still working out the details of providing PostScript as a ‘ foundation library ’ for developers on Sparc kit . |
| 9 | TWW had n't long lost the franchise at the time and the early plans by Harlech , as they were then unwisely called , for news presentation in Bristol just were n't working out . |
| 10 | Things were n't working out as they 'd hoped , he said , and it had been agreed to take Peter off presenting the early evening news programme . |
| 11 | Whether you appreciated it or not , what you were actually doing when you were assigning resources and things was you were actually working out an expenditure er on resources . |
| 12 | And it was all working out . |
| 13 | Even so it was not until July 1962 that a precarious agreement was finally worked out between the factions in Laos , and one which was undone in due course by the intensifying conflict in Vietnam . |
| 14 | At this conference in November , an agreement was laboriously worked out to the effect that Zimbabwe would shortly gain its legal independence . |
| 15 | Really she was just working out her guilt for having thrown me under the wardrobe when I was six weeks old . |
| 16 | I was just working out what there was in it . |
| 17 | The plan was not working out at all well . |
| 18 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 19 | Charlemagne was particularly well organised in terms of military mobility and supplies ; advance planning was carefully worked out and supplies were often requisitioned in the season before the actual campaign . |
| 20 | The drill was well worked out and always the same , used for every murder . |
| 21 | It was n't working out as they had hoped . |
| 22 | It was n't working out like he 'd thought and it was going to take him a lot longer than he 'd planned . |
| 23 | He would n't say what was n't working out , though I guess it was the sexual frustration and not being able to put a date on setting up home together . |
| 24 | Only it was n't working out . |
| 25 | ‘ Many of us felt he should have had the courage to admit that the job was n't working out instead of using his reputation as England manager to negotiate a lucrative overseas contract and then leaving everyone high and dry without a second thought . |
| 26 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But it was n't working out . ’ |
| 28 | The American Gilded Age after the Civil War was a period of ruthless competition even in palaeontology , where the survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence was indeed worked out , in the present as in the past . |
| 29 | It was painstakingly worked out as a way of preventing some women — usually those whose privileged access to higher education had given them confidence and articulacy in public speaking — from dominating and silencing others . |