Example sentences of "[not/n't] work [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is strong with public service workers whose relation to the generation of wealth is indirect , but it does not work with the young bank employee in Basildon with £15,000 a year and prospects . |
| 2 | Health warnings on advertisements do not work for the same reason as health warnings on labels — they represent a token gesture which will have no material effect . |
| 3 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 4 | The Department has taken away the earnings-related supplement , and have got rid of death and maternity grant and income support for 16 and 17-year-olds who would not work on the Tory Government 's slave labour schemes . |
| 5 | The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters . |
| 6 | While we can see that horses are adept , sensitive and subtle communicators , human observers suffer from the disadvantage that our sense organs do not work in the same way as theirs . |
| 7 | The chemistry simply did not work in the same way . |
| 8 | If the government intervenes to ‘ peg ’ ( i.e. fix ) the exchange rate or even to prevent excessive fluctuations , the transmission mechanism will not work in the same way as we have described . |
| 9 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 10 | Care must be taken in interpreting Fig. 3 b because the CTD stations at the eastern end were not worked in the same location ( Fig. 1 ) , and some effect from the different topography might account for the eddy-like structure seen between 15–28°W . |
| 11 | However , lapis from the region of Lake Baikal in Siberia does contain wollastonite , although this source was not worked until the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | But notice that this time the design area of the screen does not change colour , because you are not working with the main background colour . |
| 13 | Access to mental health services often bypasses social services departments ( unlike services such as those for the elderly ) ; thus the bulk of the initial screening will probably be undertaken by staff not working for the local authority . |
| 14 | He said that if the Tories had policies that were not working for the Scottish economy then the silence of the SNP since last year 's general election told the real story of what independence for Scotland would really mean . |
| 15 | Is this not working in the opposite direction to treatment by similars and driving the imbalances , the illnesses , deeper into the system ? |
| 16 | Reports of original work , headed often by the names of many joint authors , became too full of jargon to be understood even by trained scientists who were not working in the particular field . |
| 17 | They are either bent or stupid , but they are not competent and certainly are not working in the public interest . |
| 18 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 19 | ( You ca n't work from the feathery point you 've just planed , so chop it off . |
| 20 | I do n't work in the photographic laboratory . |
| 21 | We were n't working on the hard drive . |