Example sentences of "not working [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A contractor could use the actual performance when not working under claim conditions to establish what should have been foreseeable .
2 In the primary or literal sense of the words it was , but since the machine was not working under power and was only in temporary motion for necessary adjustment , the House of Lords chose to give the words the secondary meaning of ‘ mechanical propulsion . ’
3 BRIGHT economic schemes have a habit of not working in South America .
4 They 're not working in accordance with that procedure .
5 The situation is much easier if the teacher is not working in isolation , but is part of a planned and coordinated programme .
6 However , as with every part of the curriculum , there is a wider perspective to be taken into account , and that is the fact that there is a limit on what an individual teacher can achieve if he or she is not working in harmony with the rest of the school .
7 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 .
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