Example sentences of "be n't work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heather Goodchild , entertainment analyst at credit ratings agency Standard & Poor 's , said yesterday : ‘ MGM 's films just are n't working , their debts are running away and they have major problems in their corporate structure . ’ |
| 2 | For the first time , things are n't working quite as well as they used to . |
| 3 | No chance , I thought , just my luck the clocks are n't working . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean the lifts are n't working ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You ought to be listening to the grass roots and saying : ‘ Look , we 've started doing the tests , we 've found they are n't working as they should . |
| 6 | ‘ So you are n't working for Joe any longer ? ’ |
| 7 | I 've got James ringing around all the private houses on the island to rope in a few cooks who are n't working tonight . |
| 8 | I said to her : ‘ Sabine , we ca n't be friends if we are n't working together . ’ |
| 9 | They are frustrated because things are n't working out as they had hoped . |
| 10 | And they 're ornaments today , they are n't working horses . |
| 11 | Th th , those are n't working options either . |
| 12 | Because his brakes are n't working |
| 13 | I know the radiators are n't working . |
| 14 | Erm , so could you all , including those people who are n't working on this project , bring erm , one of your tapes , because you 're all taping the assignment , anyway . |
| 15 | ‘ I was getting so sick of trying to form groups and they were n't working . |
| 16 | I 'm sure they 're the nicest guys in the world , but I was at the MTV awards in America when they were trying to do a soundcheck , and they could n't do a song because their tapes were n't working . |
| 17 | ‘ When the show started everybody jumped on it and picked up on the things that were n't working . |
| 18 | TWW had n't long lost the franchise at the time and the early plans by Harlech , as they were then unwisely called , for news presentation in Bristol just were n't working out . |
| 19 | Things were n't working out as they 'd hoped , he said , and it had been agreed to take Peter off presenting the early evening news programme . |
| 20 | The most common complaint , however , was that the projects were n't working ; results had n't turned out as hoped , essential equipment had proved faulty ( or in some eases had n't arrived ) and students were left writing up why their project had n't worked out . |
| 21 | After the last show , or earlier if they were n't working , Arthur would often fall prey to the bite of melancholy , with such sharp dread of all endings that he would greatly fear going to sleep , as if nothing would be left to him unless he kept watch on it . |
| 22 | When we were n't working . |
| 23 | And he er and he was really delighted of course , so he said , Well I 'm holiday and I 'll come round with the caravan , so I had my holiday which did n't make much difference because there was had to you know we were n't working really , and I went round with him for this week , all round and the villages everywhere . |
| 24 | For a moment I wondered if I 'd brought the bad luck down on us by pretending the planetaries were n't working , at the Vadinamian Valve . |
| 25 | We were n't working on the hard drive . |
| 26 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 27 | Ockleton and I were both asleep , so neither of us can be sure he did n't slam on the brakes — only to find they were n't working . |
| 28 | And er at that stage we tried the fire hydrants but I mean there was no water in the pumps the electric pumps there was no ele electric power 'cos the elec electric er generator was blown to bits , well they were n't working anyway . |
| 29 | Long-term objectives were n't working at that particular stage … |
| 30 | That does n't seem to me to be a very satisfactory way of detecting that these systems were n't working and with such complex systems as we 've got such as the system , it would take one person quite a number of minutes , if not hours , to check all the lights so I very much recommend this system and I should I suppose declare an interest when you start to talk about bulbs |