1 I didn't want to unpick the past.

2 You can always unpick the hems on the dungarees if you don't like them.

3 It took hours to unpick the seams.

4 There are fears that the president might unpick the treaty.

5 By contrast, historians want to unpick the public face that is presented.

6 In America it may take years to unpick this.

7 Sutherland said that Austen's unpublished manuscripts "unpick her reputation for perfection in various ways."

8 These have proved hard to unpick, partly because no president has had a majority in Congress since 1997.

9 And a provocative exhibition tries to unpick the myth about the world's most famous apeman.

10 As long as two years ago, Mandelson tried to unpick the reasons for the disaster.

11 A statesman who ought to know better wants to unpick last year's reform of Europe's common agricultural policy.

12 Fru Gertlinger knew that Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past with her and she never made mention of it.

13 However, when the garment was completed I didn't like it and took the decision to unpick the whole thing.

14 The trick is to use what is known as a "fast Fourier transform" to unpick more than 300 separate colours of light in a laser beam, each encoded with its own string of information.

15 While today's school pupils are taught how to read bank statements and unpick financial abbreviations, Which?

16 Despite his initial scepticism, Mr Brown is unlikely to unpick Mr Blair's public - service reforms.

17 In a three-minute news story there's little time to unpick complex scientific debates.

18 Now we have a beast of a different kind. Google Translate is a statistical machine translation system, which means that it doesn't try to unpick or understand anything.

19 In the current experiment, the team sent their signals down 50km of optical fibre and then implemented what is known as an optical fast Fourier transform to unpick the data streams.

20 You need lots of love and understanding to help you to get to grips with your feelings and unpick the confusing issues that are overwhelming you.

21 The study, described in Animal Behavior, Sept. 7, is part of a current trend in primatology to unpick how motivation and mental state affects an animal's interactions.

1 I didn't want to unpick the past.

2 As long as two years ago, Mandelson tried to unpick the reasons for the disaster.

3 You can always unpick the hems on the dungarees if you don't like them.