Example sentences of "[verb] out the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | IN THE SECOND PART OF OUR SERIES ON PRACTICAL USES FOR YOUR SPREADSHEET , DENNIS JENKIN EXPLAINS HOW TO WORK OUT THE FINANCIAL PROS AND CONS OF RENTING OR BUYING A PROPERTY . |
| 32 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |
| 33 | It gave us both lots of pleasure trying to work out the various clues , so we shall give ourselves a pat on the back for doing so well — hope you will have some more mind-boggling competitions in the future . |
| 34 | A small , thin tabby , she spent her life trying to work out the central dilemmas of her life — how to get in and out of the house , and why the fat man called Henry tried to kick her every time the two other people in the house were out of the way . |
| 35 | You have to work out the right questions to find out what you want to know , see ? " |
| 36 | He began to work out the probable returns from his night 's work . |
| 37 | You will have to work out the potential problems for the patient , and take care to avoid them . |
| 38 | Successful communication is based upon people 's capacity to interpret prose and in all but the simplest cases this depends on the ability to work out the grammatical relationships between the words within sentences . |
| 39 | How much will he spend to bail out the first-wave trusts so that they do not end the first financial year in deficit ? |
| 40 | Turn seed-heads upside down and tap out the tiny seeds on to white paper , so they are clearly visible . |
| 41 | Given that the group is expected to have made profits for the current year , the net assets will be higher than at the last account date and as the company is being purchased on a multiple of earnings we should consider stripping out the excess assets . |
| 42 | Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms . |
| 43 | In the light of the foregoing , an invitation to spell out the legal rules governing the treatment of the terminally ill must be regarded with some trepidation . |
| 44 | In those circumstances , it will be necessary to attempt to spell out the general laws , metaphysical and methodological principles , etc. involved in a paradigm in order to defend them against the alternatives involved in the threatening new paradigm . |
| 45 | ‘ After 10 years of employment legislation focused on what unions and their members may not do , the Government would do better to spell out the positive rights it believes trade union members are entitled to at the workplace . ’ |
| 46 | Out of the conceptualization of housework as work which is a major theme of this study arises the need to spell out the different components in what is broadly termed women 's ‘ domesticity ’ . |
| 47 | Last century , most materials for the chemicals industry were derived from coal tar , made by heating coal to high temperatures in the absence of air and distilling out the volatile products . |
| 48 | Organisers expect to sell out the 52 matches , culminating with the championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena , California . |
| 49 | Likewise , our early ancestors most probably sifted out the useful plants by scent , sight and intuition . |
| 50 | Pinch out the growing tips of tomato plants |
| 51 | Pinch out the growing tips from tomato plants a couple of leaves above the top truss of plants . |
| 52 | When the tomato plants have set four trusses of fruit , pinch out the growing tips . |
| 53 | Swiftly and with the minimum of noise , they laid the small table with heavy silver tableware and spread out the various dishes . |
| 54 | If you experience difficulty in picking out the individual knots , use a magnifying glass . |
| 55 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 56 | It has to work through the agency of its possessors , and especially by picking out the weak points of their characters — possessiveness in Bilbo , fear in Frodo , patriotism in Boromir , pity in Gandalf . |
| 57 | Picking out the salient points of a lengthy report , making a positive contribution to a formal meeting or an informal social gathering ; making an effective presentation or negotiating a deal that will stick … |
| 58 | Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego . |
| 59 | So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's . |
| 60 | The earlier text thus revealed can be made more legible by a program that enhances the contrast , picking out the Gothic letters from the surrounding gloom . |