Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] do [adv] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a single parent , and I blame myself for the way he is — but I feel it 's too late to get through to him now as talking or reasoning does n't work . |
| 2 | Perhaps you believe that programming does n't work ? |
| 3 | One of these blows ( mentioned in the section on ‘ Reform ’ above ) was cruelly self-inflicted : positivistic criminological research , far from demonstrating the effectiveness of treatment measures , seemed instead to show that treatment did not work . |
| 4 | But a minister said that politics did not work that way , and that the influence of the East Anglian connection was greatly exaggerated . |
| 5 | If this scenario occurred often enough , you would have taught her that , if whining does not work , a noisy tantrum will do the trick . |
| 6 | This is in turn used to confirm that their situation really is hopeless , and that even our support and help does not work . |
| 7 | But Crime and Punishment did n't work out like that . |
| 8 | They know that the ball has to be released quickly as the danger for the opposition of losing the put-in at the scrum , if the hold and drive does not work , is too great . |
| 9 | If time-out did n't work for you , you may have been applying the method incorrectly . |
| 10 | If persuasion does not work , ‘ green conditionality ’ might be the answer in some cases , unpopular though it would be ; and for the really hard cases , sanctions , provided there is sufficient of a consensus to back them and the industrial world has not sunk into a mood of profound fatalism about the impossibility of stemming the greenhouse gases . |
| 11 | He felt that ‘ shareholder pressure ’ would ensure compliance with the Code , but added that ‘ if self-regulation does not work , a more bureaucratic legislative solution would be inevitable ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ If seduction does n't work , she can play on fitzAlan 's sympathy , if he has any . ’ |
| 13 | so I gave him a couple of quid , three quid , for lending me it plus the spinner cos spinner do n't work on washer |
| 14 | Where card-dropping , smiling and niceness do not work , hagglers should choose a ‘ well-timed emotional outburst ’ such as ‘ screaming , crying or becoming otherwise unreasonable ’ , say authors Leonard Koren and Peter Goodman . |
| 15 | In the latter case the judge thought that the term " services " had been too narrowly construed in the past and that allowance should be made for the fact that a wife and mother does not work set hours and that she is in constant attendance on the home . |
| 16 | In fact , Stevens ( 1991 ) argues that it is just because devaluation does not work as an instrument of economic policy that the argument for a single currency is made more powerful . |