Example sentences of "[was/were] work out [art] " in BNC.

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1 When he arrived that morning David appeared cool towards her — so cool , in contrast to the friendly relationship they had previously established , that Nina noticed it and mentioned it while she and Rachel were working out a list of appointments for management medicals .
2 Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ .
3 But Hegel was a philosopher , and a philosopher who held that the responsibility of philosophy was to work out a universal and all-embracing system of understanding which would include literally everything — God and religion not excepted .
4 The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels .
5 When the iron ore was worked out the township including the school would pack up and move on .
6 During the late 1920s and early 1930s when John Maynard Keynes ( 1883–1946 ) was working out a new economic system where government intervention would stabilise the negative effects of free enterprise — low investment , acute unemployment — individualist man and collectivist man were fighting it out for supremacy .
7 My superior self was working out a way to approach and make myself known .
8 In a burst of confidence one day he told me that he was working out a new system of numerology , developed from a study of people whose lives have been well documented .
9 Far above on the moor we could see some new machinery which meant that someone was working out the tailings for spar and barytes for the North Sea oil industry where they 're used in the drilling Processes .
10 For example , he was working out the exposition of the melodic cells which are the basis of most of the movement , so that his use of contradicting notes had to fit in with the melodic intervals , which were probably his primary concern .
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