Example sentences of "working out the " in BNC.

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1 In working out the percentage deduction from the damages of successful claimants , comparison should be made with trade union funded personal injury litigation where costs were paid to winning defendants .
2 Working out the whole story will be a long , difficult process of unravelling the pathways of insulin action in cells .
3 ‘ We 've been working out the date for the party , ’ Frau Nordern said , producing an enormous desk diary .
4 Another eight months was devoted to working out the spacing between characters .
5 Under Mr Coates , the British-equity business was put on a sounder basis — first by carefully working out the profitability of each of its institutional clients and , second , by then sacking a fifth of its British-equity team .
6 I go to sleep working out the day 's calories , and my dreams are always of food .
7 ‘ For example , when working out the redemption yield , the investor must make assumptions as to the future level of inflation .
8 They took that into account when building their third house , in a small development off a country lane on the Highgate side of Kenwood , but stuck to their usual system of Geoffrey working out the designs with a lot of input from Elaine .
9 For instance , a group of adolescents intending to look at how a family might drive one of its members to suicide , began their drama by working out the family 's relative positions round the graveside , concerning themselves with ‘ how it would look if it were a still photograph ’ .
10 Whether a single lift costing little more than half the balance lift is advisable or not can only be determined on working out the details of the site where it is required to be constructed and the conditions under which it would have to be worked .
11 Many years of research in many places have been devoted to working out the best ways of using surgery , radiation , and drugs to treat each kind of solid tumour and of using radiation and drugs for those disseminated cancers , such as the leukaemias , in which no central growth can be removed .
12 Working out the yardages means walking the course in advance , picking out points and landmarks , very often trees , but any kind of geographical detail , and then measuring the yards from the point to the green .
13 The TPLF admit that they started a revolution without carefully working out the details of what they hoped to achieve and establish .
14 A shorthand presentation of this kind can not convey all the modifying factors built into the system to add sophistication to the basic concept , nor the mathematical formulae used for working out the stock requirements .
15 You should not underestimate the importance of these rights when working out the value of your contract .
16 The researchers are trying out different X-ray sources , including laboratory non-destructive testing rigs and a truck-mounted X-ray unit , and are working out the doses required .
17 My method of writing and producing a play was as follows : being a little lazy and a great procrastinator , I would leave the writing of the Saturday night play until the day before , meanwhile working out the plot and sequence of scenes in my head .
18 In the meantime , Pennethorne had been working out the details of his proposals for the Foreign Office .
19 ‘ First of all we will look at his numerical and mathematical ability which he has gained from reckoning areas from odd shaped bits of land and working out the number of trees they will take , and from his mother 's shopping expeditions , and we will reduce these to simple symbolic formulas and tables and make children learn a lot of them very quickly .
20 Supporters may enjoy working out the other members of the group !
21 Working out the visibility was easier as we did have guidelines here — a tree on the other side of the airfield was at 1,000 yards , a distant farmhouse 2 miles , and if you could n't see the briefing room it was foggy .
22 Working out the nucleotide sequence of viral genetic material and making oligonucleotides of specific sequences is steadily becoming easier , more efficient and more accurate .
23 If there is a problem with the job then , if the criticism is valid , take this into account while working out the new job specification .
24 The geneticist 's language is no more nor less metaphorical when he calls the gene selfish than when he depicts it as though itself working out the solutions in games theory by which he is explaining its survival .
25 If you try working out the return on a single room , using the well-known 1:1,000 room rate:room cost ratio , assuming a realistic annual occupancy rate ( say 65 per cent ) and providing for interest and tax , you will realize that it could take several decades to recover the original cost .
26 Costing-calculating the overall cost of an item or service by working out the costs of labour , materials and overheads
27 As the body tension is eased out by working out the body , muscles relax and a good sleep induced .
28 She was always busy with these pages , working out the correct day for planting date trees , for pollinating or foretelling the week when the pods would burst and the golden maidenhair would tumble out into the sun , each hair holding the promise of a cluster of dates .
29 WORKING OUT THE DESIGN
30 Comb from tip to root , working out the knots at the end before moving up the hair .
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