Example sentences of "[noun] to sort out the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It took an hour to sort out the jumble of thoughts . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | As for my own personal future … well , I have my own Five Year plan to sort out the confusion in which I live . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We have to stop here for a moment to sort out the coordinates . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Two preliminary rounds were staged on a league basis to sort out the semi finalists . |
| 15 | It 's up to the organic farmers to sort out the inconsistent supply complaint . |
| 16 | It was left to us alcoholics to sort out the thorny problem . |
| 17 | He called an emergency summit of EC leaders for early next month to sort out the shambles . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They have n't shown the political will to sort out the problem — there has been an element of divide and rule . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Will my hon. Friend press the Treasury to sort out the issue of the cost of meat inspection to ensure that the thousands of jobs presently at risk in the poultry industry will be made secure ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Layering is another way to sort out the confusion . |
| 28 | Er , I I I thought it extremely discourteous of Councillor instead of responding to my letter he goes to the press and starts complaining , this does n't seem to me the way to sort out the problem at all and I am equally aware of the problem er and if it only helps me get some facts together then it it will strengthen my arm getting things sorted out . |
| 29 | But there 's nothing like countrywide economic hardship to sort out the stayers from the stumblers . |
| 30 | 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 . |