Example sentences of "[noun] to sort out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
| 2 | Mosley , speaking after a meeting of the Formula One commission of FISA at a Heathrow hotel , said he had taken action to sort out the confusion after weeks of chaos . |
| 3 | Graham Kelly , FA chief executive , yesterday morning abandoned England 's team headquarters in Santander to fly to London in a bid to sort out the crisis . |
| 4 | In the following years discussions continued between the officers at the Boards and at headquarters in an attempt to sort out a practical level of detail which preserved the Authority 's control over general policy and coordination , while reserving clearly local matters to the Area Boards . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Parents expect schools to sort out a lot of problems which are not school problems , ’ says one . |
| 7 | It took an hour to sort out the jumble of thoughts . |
| 8 | It had taken three-quarters of an hour to sort out the situation at the crossroads in Ramsgate , make statements to the police , get the names of witnesses , watch the crippled Jaguar being winched on to the back of the Relay tender . |
| 9 | A serious matter-of-fact weekend gives you plenty of opportunity to sort out a financial hassle connected with income tax , pensions or an inheritance . |
| 10 | Most nurses are first thrown into these situations at around eighteen years of age , before they have an opportunity to sort out the demands of their own emotional lives . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | As for my own personal future … well , I have my own Five Year plan to sort out the confusion in which I live . |
| 13 | Victims and health authorities agree that services are n't being properly coordinated , but one authority has promised to try to find a consultant to sort out the problem . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We have to stop here for a moment to sort out the coordinates . |
| 16 | He did n't realise that she needed time and space , privacy to sort out the tangle inside her head and make a considered decision about her future actions . |
| 17 | Two preliminary rounds were staged on a league basis to sort out the semi finalists . |
| 18 | You sent these heroes in the middle of the night to sort out a man who is asleep . |
| 19 | It 's up to the organic farmers to sort out the inconsistent supply complaint . |
| 20 | It was left to us alcoholics to sort out the thorny problem . |
| 21 | He called an emergency summit of EC leaders for early next month to sort out the shambles . |
| 22 | The co-option of an industrialist or businessman may be a statement about school being a place for training the future work force or just an attempt to involve someone with business acumen to sort out the LMS accounts . |
| 23 | When that matter was put to the Home Office and the Department of the Environment , we were told that it was for the local authority to sort out the matter with the local police force . |
| 24 | DAVID Mellor admitted last night that he called in British diplomats to sort out a water crisis during his Marbella villa freebie with his family . |
| 25 | They have n't shown the political will to sort out the problem — there has been an element of divide and rule . |
| 26 | Keegan sent the 6ft 3in striker packing with instructions to sort out a transfer tangle with his Belgian club Mechelen . |
| 27 | The highlights of this short story are these : born on good Friday 1935 , numerous operations as a child on a club left foot , po-faced and basically afraid of the world until he was thirteen , bullied at school , fighting it by becoming the class clown , playing the piano and showing off , off to Oxford , Beyond the Fringe , doubling up with Peter Cook , growing up to be five feet two ‘ and a half — every half inch counts ’ , losing his virginity at 23 , Sixties success as Pete'n'Dud , a series of relationships with faces such as Celia Hammond , Tuesday Weld , Suzy Kendall , Susan Anton , love affair break ups and make ups , psychotherapy to sort out the hangover of a painful , frightening childhood , doubting Dudley , depressed Dudley , filthy Derek and Clive albums , worried about being 30 , happy about being 40 , frightened of being 50 , worrying Dudley , Dudley and jazz , Dudley in Hollywood making it big with 10 and Arthur , restless Dudley , manic Dudley , Dudley and son Patrick , million-dollar-a-film-Dudley , chasing chickens for Tesco , still small , still smiling , still pinching himself to believe it 's all real . |
| 28 | Suppose we set up some small group scenes about neighbours arguing , trying to resolve a dispute ( it could be open-ended , up to the children to sort out the " back story " or the teacher could prescribe it — a barking dog in one house and loud music late at night in the other ) . |
| 29 | Later that month , an action began in the High Court between John Lydon and Glitterbest , in which Lydon asked the High Court to render the management agreement void and appoint a receiver to sort out the Sex Pistols ' affairs and finances . |
| 30 | 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 . |