Example sentences of "work [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles . |
| 2 | According to the script , after an initial twenty minutes of Anglo-Saxon bombardment , the Turks would be weeping with fear and humiliation , and devoting much of their on-field activities to figuring out ways of being granted political asylum , rather than returning home to their doubtless murderous regime , where they would be summarily sent to work down the sewers for ten years . |
| 3 | Women are now eligible to work down the pits under previous legislation , but there is protection for kids , for the 16-year-olds who come into the industry . |
| 4 | I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam . |
| 5 | ‘ I like to work up an appetite for my breakfast . |
| 6 | Although lengthy domestic and care routines are to some extent a reality of disability , it is necessary to work out a level of sharing between the women and their staff which allows a varied day and does not make a drudge out of anybody . |
| 7 | You will need to work out a menu for yourself to follow , using the Stage I menus as a guide , but adding your own safe foods and drinks . |
| 8 | ‘ Similarly , I did n't want any obvious arms on it so I had to work out a system of manipulators — things that did things , like a grip mechanism or a gun . |
| 9 | It will also give you the opportunity to get used to hearing the sound of your own voice and to work out a way of expressing clearly the points you would like to put across . |
| 10 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
| 11 | Erm , if you ask for what actions we could take , then we 'll have to work out a way of doing it . |
| 12 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 13 | Officials said that they hoped to work out a schedule of repayments by the end of the year . |
| 14 | The passage by the House of representatives of a civil rights bill by 381 votes to 38 on Nov. 7 , following Senate approval by 93 votes to 5 on Oct. 30 , brought to an end a two-year battle for enactment which had included Bush 's 1990 veto of a previous bill and months of inconclusive efforts in mid-1991 by Democratic and moderate Republican senators to work out a compromise with the administration [ see p. 38381 ] . |
| 15 | Some of the President 's advisers on industrial recovery wanted a national plan , with the Federal government in command ; others wanted business and government to work out a scheme of co-operation on a voluntary basis . |
| 16 | By studying numerous manuscripts , textual critics have been able to work out a set of principles which can be applied to many different sorts of document . |
| 17 | From this it is possible to work out a recipe for some common ailments . |
| 18 | The government set up a high-level council for alternative economics on Nov. 6 , under the chairmanship of Liberal Party leader Igor Merkulov , to work out a strategy for building a market economy , including measures to strengthen the currency coupon and , later , Ukraine 's new currency against the US dollar . |
| 19 | Europe 's leading seed banks and official research institutes have joined forces with the pressure group Genetic Resources Action International ( GRAIN ) to work out a strategy for preserving genetic diversity in crop plants . |
| 20 | The staff development day which is to follow shortly afterwards is to be used by the different year teams to work out a programme of study . |
| 21 | In Troeltsch 's own case , it is very clear that even when he sought — as he also did — to function as a Christian theologian , and to work out a pattern of Christian doctrine , his approach was deeply coloured by the relativism of his wider approach to the study of religion . |
| 22 | It is best to work out a pattern in advance and draw it out on same graph paper . |
| 23 | ‘ Our Quality Charter states that NICMA members are expected to work out a policy on discipline which does not include smacking children , ’ she said . |
| 24 | It was always wise to work out a line of retreat as well as a line of approach . |
| 25 | Despite the apparent gentleness of the Glancy approach to the sensitivities of staff at Friern , when the members of the authority attempted to work out a process for implementing its recommendations , they ran into considerable difficulties . |
| 26 | * The Ukrainian government has decided to hold an international contest to work out a method of converting the fourth reactor at Chernobyl into an environmentally safe system . |
| 27 | It is suggested that governments , in managing the economy , have to work out a trade-off between inflation and the level of employment . |
| 28 | The third method is for central planning to work out every detail of the plan and ask the departments to follow the plan exactly . |
| 29 | Ted Ray , one of the judges , reminded me that I now had to work out an act for ‘ The All Winners Show ’ , which happened every seventh week , a contest between the six previous show winners . |
| 30 | In a joint statement both sides undertook to work out an agreement for the early destruction of a " significant part " of their chemical arsenals . |