Example sentences of "work through " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time was hers to work through her story/ fantasy ( ? ) /love letter . |
| 2 | He then goes on to criticise Labour for suggesting that priority spending on education and training can help overcome the difficulties of the balance of payments deficit — because such investment programmes take generations to work through the system . |
| 3 | I made it my practice , not without some official misgivings , to work through the chairmen of the regional boards as a collective body , behaving , though they were my appointees , as no more than their primus inter pares . |
| 4 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 5 | These projects , covering issues such as information requirements and the purchasing role of health authorities , are designed to work through the implications of the White Paper at a local level . |
| 6 | Both started young and had to work through a range of personal problems and private defeats . |
| 7 | It means the person never has to work through their grief , but can stay poised at a moment in time , hoping that the news they heard , but can not believe , turns out to be wrong after all . |
| 8 | The main difference for the very old , then , may be that whereas when they were younger it would have been possible to work through the effects of multiple grief and achieve some new balance in life , forming new relationships and so on , in old age this is less likely . |
| 9 | Some leaders spoke out against the new trend ; in a paper on preaching delivered at a Free Church Council meeting the quixotic Joseph Parker defended congregational applause during a sermon because it encouraged the preacher and allowed the Holy Spirit to work through the listeners . |
| 10 | Peasants were enticed away from subsistence agriculture because of the potential profits and , in order to buy the necessary equipment and fertilisers and to sell the final produce , they had to work through the market . |
| 11 | Indeed deliberately making all the tricky names into anagrams may be an easier way to work through the map for non-Gaelic speakers . |
| 12 | If schools feel that the National Curriculum does not get to the heart of the matter , that it is a relatively superficial means to more important ends and has important omissions , then is it not up to the schools to work through the National Curriculum or add to it to secure their goals ? |
| 13 | These are skills which can be simulated in the classroom , but teacher and learner need to work through situations together in the real world , so that learner can receive the support she needs . |
| 14 | Many people emerge from therapy far better adjusted and able to cope with life than others who have not been compelled by illness to work through loss and learn to know themselves . |
| 15 | Married couples need to work through their shared past disappointments and mistakes as much as individuals do . |
| 16 | The German middle classes and the German Catholics in particular knew that the Prussian Poles were no great threat to the state , yet in spite of their protests , the Junker-dominated Government found it essential to work through crude Völkisch opinion to maintain itself and divert the impending revolution . |
| 17 | Practical help and emotional support of the bereaved are of course interwoven , but from the purely emotional standpoint it could be said that their greatest needs are for loving concern , good listening and patient understanding of their need to work through their grief in their own way at their own pace . |
| 18 | The phrasing in a couple of the sections is a little tricky , so you would be well advised to work through his solo in close conjunction with the record . |
| 19 | All you are going to need to work through the examples and exercises I will be giving you each month is access to either a metronome or drum machine . |
| 20 | The challenge of AIDS involves more than individual sexual behaviour : it represents an opportunity to work through our commonest societal fears–and taboos , to reach new understanding and evolve compassionate action . |
| 21 | Teams of journalists , just about to go home around l0 p.m. , were told to work through the night as fresh editions were prepared for issue as late as S a.m . |
| 22 | Permanent Insurance 's Business Expenses Policy covers either the cost of a loan or the cost of fixed business expenses in the event that a professional person is unable to work through illness . |
| 23 | Being peacemakers , we have to be the open-hearted go-betweens , to enable the Spirit to work through us . |
| 24 | Here I would identify with the position held by Charles Kraft , namely that God , whilst being above culture , chooses to work through culture ( Kraft 1979:113–115 ) . |
| 25 | It has to work through the agency of its possessors , and especially by picking out the weak points of their characters — possessiveness in Bilbo , fear in Frodo , patriotism in Boromir , pity in Gandalf . |
| 26 | It takes time , patience and resilience to work through losses ; sometimes a further loss triggers off grief for an insufficiently mourned event . |
| 27 | unable to work through child-care commitments |
| 28 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 29 | It means that I have to work through these guys . |
| 30 | For the first half of the meeting the division was split into two large committees to work through the agreed agenda . |