Example sentences of "[not/n't] work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most obvious conclusion to draw here once again goes back to women 's domestic role , and in particular their tendency not to work outside the home , or to work part time , or to work in isolation ( home working , cleaning and so on ) . |
| 2 | The women 's movement was maturing too , as it slowly swung back to the acceptability of some women choosing not to work outside the home . |
| 3 | Protestors fighting plans to open a clinic for sex offenders have persuaded contractors not to work on the building . |
| 4 | He had opposed it along with the rest of the General Advisory Committee but it was no clear-cut moral stand : ‘ I never urged anyone not to work on the hydrogen bomb project , ’ he told the inquiry . |
| 5 | The government 's anti-crisis programme , unveiled this week ( see page 93 ) , is brave in parts but fails to tackle the essential task of privatisation and can not work without the agreement of republican governments . |
| 6 | Above the level of the very poor , notions of respectability acted as a curb on abusive or violent behaviour within the family and increasingly dictated that married women should not work outside the home . |
| 7 | Families of different kinds , for example those in which the mother does or does not work outside the home , are compared in terms of the ways in which they respond to the unpredictable , but inevitable , occurrence of these episodes of childhood illness . |
| 8 | If it works with just the Master drive in the system and will not work with the slave drive connected whatever the orientation of the cable. , change the configuration to make the Slave drive the Master and the Master the Slave . |
| 9 | Apparently , anyone who is not a teacher or who does not work for the council should not be allowed to undertake an inspection . |
| 10 | On the roll of a 1 or 2 the staff has run out of energy and will not work for the remainder of the battle . |
| 11 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 12 | But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less . |
| 13 | Would it not then be the case that the market would have a form of control — indeed , sovereignty — that would not work to the advantage of the Community generally or of Britain specifically ? |
| 14 | Wallace 's angled runs were badly missed : - the Whelan/Deane partnership did not work at the beginning of the season and never looked like it last night . |
| 15 | All this suggests that gentle pressure will not work on the press . |
| 16 | When a crime is reported to the police they do not work on the assumption that anyone could have done it . |
| 17 | I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating . |
| 18 | Surrounded by potential weapons , an inmate has to be given the all-clear by the prison 's hard labour board to ensure potentially dangerous prisoners do not work in the kitchen . |
| 19 | One lady who only saw Terris once would not work in the station again and demanded a move to a ‘ normal station ’ . |
| 20 | This change may reflect a disillusionment with the cost-benefit approach and the realisation that while this attitude might be helpful in manufacturing industry it certainly did not work in the service industry to which most of the Highlands were exposed . |
| 21 | The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to . |
| 22 | First , what works well during research may not work in the rough-and-tumble commercial world . |
| 23 | I felt aggrieved at this because I had not worked with the sister during my placement , and could not imagine how she could possibly assess my work and capability . |
| 24 | This is most likely to happen where the wife has not worked outside the home . |
| 25 | Now , we did have a , a very heated discussion and concern was expressed regarding the rules governing eligibility , section and conferences for delegates which excludes those who have not worked in the industry or craft or trade for eighteen months prior to their nomination . |
| 26 | Henry has not worked in the Model Shop . |
| 27 | Bet he 's not working across the road , he 's not coming home |
| 28 | If those men were not working on the gas I would go over there now , and I 'd switch the fire and I 'd leave it on . |
| 29 | The Liberal Democrats were not working on the hypothesis that the phone would ring to ask them to join a coalition government . |
| 30 | It also tends to reduce the scope for independent software firms : there are few software houses not working for the computer manufacturers . |