Example sentences of "[adv] work out " in BNC.

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1 Yeah I know what you mean but it 's not it does n't necessarily work out that way cos
2 Mike [ Foot ] said wryly that if , as Harold Lever said , we had only a 50 per cent chance of avoiding catastrophe , we had better work out a contingency plan in case that chance did not come off .
3 So I 'll see you in about I 'd better work out what the date is .
4 She insists that even with the provisions of such a charter the idea ‘ can only work out in reality if both partners , in fact , share [ the childcare ] , because there is not much point in allowing women the opportunity of going further up the ladder if they continue to have almost sole responsibility for childcare . ’
5 She had a sudden feeling that if she could only work out how the ecology of Moloch ticked , she would have a vital clue , if not to discovering Ace 's whereabouts , then at least to getting a handle on the vanished aliens .
6 At the planning stage again there will be negotiation between teacher and children and they will together work out how they are going to achieve their goals .
7 You are , I mean , I could just work out , I said , your Margaret and John are a lot like you .
8 I think we 'll just work out
9 Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement .
10 I expect I 'll soon work out how to drive it back to the quarry , and we can pick them all up .
11 They 'll soon work out where the lorry came from and they 'll be coming up here and I think they might be very angry . ’
12 This means that a business can easily work out what would happen if its sales , purchases , wages etc were all to change at different rates , with some going up and some going down .
13 Changes taking place around you will eventually work out to y our benefit .
14 Things do n't always work out as well as that : ‘ Dear Sir , ’ wrote a client to a Thomas Cook branch manager in 1965 , ‘ Will you please cancel travel arrangements made by Mr — for October 3rd as the wedding has been cancelled because he is already married . ’
15 But it does n't always work out easily , as shown in the situation outlined below .
16 Of course , it does not always work out like that .
17 Things do not always work out as simply as that , of course , but knowing the rules and drawing clear lines before the game starts are essential if misunderstandings are to be avoided .
18 Employers should note , however , that service flats do not always work out cheaper than hotels .
19 If the results did not always work out in the way intended , the blame for the failings of the criminal justice system can not be attributed to any lack of zeal to legislate .
20 However , fostering does not always work out so well .
21 It is usually they who made the choice to have and keep their babies , even though this does not always work out as happily or as easily as they may anticipate , and they deserve recognition and respect .
22 And it does n't always work out .
23 ‘ Does n't always work out that way , though .
24 In those days a man was allocated duties , it is true they tried to arrange that he was on early spread , medium or late duties but it did n't always work out because of holidays , sickness or that but erm there were no restriction on hours .
25 Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while
26 It wo n't always work out as tidily as the Grid suggests !
27 You can usually work out who is to blame and what you can do about it .
28 But any engineer can recognize an object that has been designed , even poorly designed , for a purpose , and he can usually work out what that purpose is just by looking at the structure of the object .
29 ‘ It does n't usually work out like that .
30 And then , as Lucy was rising , he said , ‘ Did it ever work out for her ? ’
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