Example sentences of "to sort out the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These can actually be a very good source of low cost resistors , capacitors , diodes , etc. , but only if you know what you are doing , and you have the necessary test equipment to sort out the good components from the ‘ duds ’ . |
| 2 | So one way to sort out the various GUTs is to see which can be used to tell believable — and , ideally , testable — stories about the big bang . |
| 3 | It is therefore necessary to use some sort of classification to sort out the various ways in which we might approach the problems of observation . |
| 4 | To sort out the various pitches and decide if the language is tonal or not , you therefore need a frame with pitches that stay the same relative to each other . |
| 5 | The more populous the parishes became , the more diffuse the community grew , the more acute the problem : no longer did the overseers or the ratepayers know everyone receiving relief , and it was then far from an easy task to sort out the needy from the charlatans . |
| 6 | Two preliminary rounds were staged on a league basis to sort out the semi finalists . |
| 7 | The mother postponed her second marriage for six months to give time to sort out the new relationships . |
| 8 | They may want you to help to sort out the personal belongings of the dead partner , which is always a painful job . |
| 9 | There 's a bloody riot going on , the town is crammed with nigs , er blacks , and they are looking to sort out the Young Conservatives . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid sir , I have no knowledge , I have n't certainly myself spoken to anybody with regard to that , I would of thought the normal procedure would be for him to be committed to Preston Crown Court and for the Crown Courts thereafter to sort out the final venue . |
| 11 | I would have thought the normal procedure would be for him to be committed to Preston Crown Court and for the Crown Courts thereafter to sort out the final venue . |
| 12 | And a judge may have to sort out the immediate squabble . |
| 13 | He was laboriously attempting to sort out the financial details of the scheme he had put to Christian . |
| 14 | Intentionality is usually overlooked by causal theorists who tend to see their job as being to sort out the afferent limb . |
| 15 | The consequences for the country , especially in the many cases where the recipient government is not able to sort out the resultant confusion , can at worst be disastrous . |
| 16 | This is the stage at which outside help is often sought — and that at which it often becomes a bitterly complicated exercise to sort out the contributory threads of relationship and sex itself . |
| 17 | Will he use his experience and wisdom to sort out the ridiculous dispute affecting the coalfield communities and the money that is due to them ? |
| 18 | Occasionally , he managed to obtain temporary work : once checking stock in a publisher 's warehouse — hardly the sort of job for an ex-officer and far below his not inconsiderable intelligence — and on another occasion , because of his clerical and administrative experiences in the War Office , helping to sort out the vast archive of a deceased general . |
| 19 | Once you have rented or bought your home , and you have fixed a date for your occupation it is time to sort out the essential services — gas , electricity , water , telephone . |
| 20 | Sir Robin Ibbs was loaned from ICI and asked to sort out the civil service . |
| 21 | This will help to sort out the genuine cases . |
| 22 | Toby Freely felt somewhat out of his depth , not confident enough to sort out the genuine from the assumed . |
| 23 | She spent the rest of the day going through copy , dealing with the Customs and Excise men in an effort to sort out the red-tape tangle about the silk scarves , fielding telephone calls for Nina , running down elusive editorial , discussing layout . |
| 24 | It 's the kind of detail they can use to sort out the false confessions . |
| 25 | We have seen that it is sometimes possible to sort out the observed vibrational bands according to their symmetry , and that group frequency and similar empirical arguments may make it reasonable to associate bands with particular vibrational modes . |
| 26 | The farmer 's wife has kindly pressed my kilt and I set off into town with a small group of Commandos , all of us determined to enjoy ourselves , and , of course , to sort out the local French girls . |
| 27 | Finally , the staff of the clinic is completed by a social worker , whose role it is to try to sort out the non-medical problems that often go hand-in-hand with any infections . |
| 28 | Scientists are studying ex-smokers , people with depression , athletes and those recovering from prolonged illness in an attempt to sort out the complicated physical and psychological cues which lead us to crave specific foods . |
| 29 | The former Soviet republics are still trying to sort out the relative powers of executive and assembly . |
| 30 | If we manage to sort out the syntactical problems , we might find that in the end the other issues will get sorted out of themselves . |