Example sentences of "[not/n't] work out " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Mr Hurd had done ‘ is not to work out what he believes are essential categories and decide to legislate on those categories . |
| 2 | The first choice of a single builder did not work out , but Timothy Easton has high praise for his replacement , Barry Rose , from Debenham : ‘ He was excellent and could do virtually anything . ’ |
| 3 | In fact it 's the best offer I 've ever had , and in any case I always knew I could go back to Wakefield if it did not work out . |
| 4 | He felt ashamed of her , and he could not work out why her mother should have such a smile on her face . |
| 5 | He even gave North precious travellers ' cheques to ransom them , although the ransom did not work out . |
| 6 | ‘ When I left it was open ended so that if things did not work out for me I could go back to playing Charlene . |
| 7 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 8 | She could not work out how far away it was , but the shrill was enough to hammer into her skull like nails . |
| 9 | From the top down , the segmentation of politics means that different people care about different parts of the federalist puzzle and can not work out whom to blame . |
| 10 | In practice , life does not work out quite like that . |
| 11 | But this strategy might not work out as the British government hoped ; the resultant ‘ unfreezing [ could ] release the political energies of the people ’ , and it could lead to a situation in which Protestant workers were weaned away from Orangeism and united with their Catholic fellow workers in the Labour movement : |
| 12 | Unfortunately , the commission did not work out well . |
| 13 | It did not work out like that , and the world still awaits that scientific proof ( this issue , p 166 ) . |
| 14 | However , you should not work out the entire mock interview beforehand or you will lose the element of spontaneity . |
| 15 | It may not work out that way , but the teacher here has , of course , had matching , ordering and sorting in mind . |
| 16 | The participating banks each knew who the other participants were , but the figures in the report were presented so that readers could not work out which figures came from which bank . |
| 17 | It did not work out that way . |
| 18 | Like many other such dreams , this one did not work out and the reason would seem to be that same old American resistance to working seriously in FI — it happened with Roger Penske , it happened with Parnelli as it was later to happen with Karl Haas . |
| 19 | The employee need not work out the period of notice if he prefers not to , although he loses his right to wages in lieu of notice . |
| 20 | Of course , very often garments require a number of stitches that do not work out at a neat number of pattern repeats , so you do n't HAVE to much patterns at side seams . |
| 21 | He says that Russell did not work out his position in detail and had ceased to hold the position at all . |
| 22 | So we can not work out the length of the whole period simply by adding up all the figures given . |
| 23 | As one respected Republican leader put it , " McCarthy should keep talking and if one case does not work out he should proceed with another . " |
| 24 | It did not work out like that . |
| 25 | The deals did not work out that way . ’ |
| 26 | Can you see why they do not work out to fit exactly into the decimal system ? |
| 27 | This was a worry to me because I could not work out how much money I would have to live on . |
| 28 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 29 | But she could not work out what the point was that Spruce thought obvious but which the clergy — herself included — had n't grasped . |
| 30 | Unfortunately they could not work out how to change the setting from low resolution and FAXgrabber found it really hard to make a good job converting a fax of a press realise announcing its launch . |