Example sentences of "[not/n't] work [prep] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Walsh avoided some of these problems by deciding not to work with a ‘ friendly critic ’ . |
| 2 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 3 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 4 | We have seen the ways in which Sartre 's Critique shows how totalization can not work without a movement of self-transcendence , a repeated interpolation of an excess beyond the totality which paradoxically then means that the totality can no longer be a totality . |
| 5 | You can not work with a dirty tool . ’ |
| 6 | This paradigm does not work with a radio talk in the morning . |
| 7 | Either way , they would see no increase in their direct taxes under Labour , provided they do not work for a living . |
| 8 | Ron , of Gnosall , Staffs , who can not work as a gardener because of a back injury , will now get £81.88 a week . |
| 9 | They would probably not work as a team again , and certainly it would be many months before the girl , on any pretext , work or vacation , was permitted to leave the country . |
| 10 | Managers who do not work as a team and provide support for each other and their staff can not hope to succeed at times of staff shortage . |
| 11 | I can not work as a scribe , and I am beginning to enjoy being free . |
| 12 | Why might that not work as a , as a idiomatic translation . |
| 13 | But Cavalli did not work to a formula . |
| 14 | By June he had tried seven different prospective designers without finding one who could give him what he wanted , but was emphatic that he could not work at a distance with Hanns or other Johannesburg artists , ‘ so that 's that ’ . |
| 15 | MC do not work on a contingency fee basis . |
| 16 | It requires planning , skill and tactics to create a winning side and if the individual players do not fit into the maze , if they can not work within a cohesive unit , then success will elude the whole team . |
| 17 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |
| 18 | However , their memories do not work in a logical way like ours , but in an emotional fashion and by association . |
| 19 | ‘ Do not work in a hurry … do nothing for nothing , and see that you get paid for everything . ’ |
| 20 | More and more money from public taxation has been put in to such services one way or another , yet the services still do not work in a foolproof way , for a number of practical reasons . |
| 21 | The best street cleaner in London does not work in a direct labour department in Hackney , Lambeth or Lewisham . |
| 22 | The two girls , it transpired , did not work in a cabaret but assisted at a gambling salon . |
| 23 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 24 | ‘ It is the first time in eleven years as a manager that I have not worked with a contract and it is like an air of freedom . ’ |
| 25 | The next site along the brook , towards Boseley , is the stone-built Blaisdon Mill , still surviving , although not worked as a corn mill since around 1890 . |
| 26 | For example the question ‘ Would you like to become a doctor and work in a hospital ? ’ is a double question because the respondent might like to become a doctor , but not work in a hospital . |
| 27 | And then I had to th the shower just came , you know came to pieces in our hand , as it were it was not working as a shower so a plumber had to come Mr Butcher came into me |
| 28 | But on my recent visit to Ghana I found that my attitude to everyday life in Africa had changed radically — mainly because I was not working on a project whose usefulness I doubted , trying to achieve things and getting frustrated . |
| 29 | But we 're not working on a line at the moment . |
| 30 | In response to the second enquiry he said tersely , ‘ Look here , she 's not working in a bank , you know ’ , and hung up . |