Example sentences of "not work [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another example is where the immune system is not functioning adequately ; suppose we keep animals in a condition which is such that their immune system does not work properly . |
| 2 | Then she could not work properly and it was imperative she worked or her new collection would never be ready on time . |
| 3 | Note that this method of series connection will not work properly if you link two 0 volt or two 6 volt terminals . |
| 4 | If one of these have become bent , the linker can not work properly and will not be able to link off the stitch close to it , hence it drops . |
| 5 | Although many snowboarders use standard ski boots or ski touring boots , the designs of conventional ski bindings do not work properly on snowboards . |
| 6 | If one of these sub-systems does not work properly it will affect the working of the system as a whole and the motor car will not function to the best of its abilities . |
| 7 | How can the Prime Minister possibly justify spending £23,000 million in capital and maintenance on a missile system which does not work properly , which does not deter , which is not independent and against whom there is now no one to target it ? |
| 8 | A back-up safety system for the UK 's nuclear power station controllers may not work properly because bugs in the computer software have not been eliminated , according to a former employee of the company that wrote the software . |
| 9 | The " OZ " window contains special characters which control the scanning of the screen and if these are disturbed , the display will not work properly . |
| 10 | Frey 's attempt to discredit these ‘ simple ’ desires will not work here ; and for the same reasons that it was finally discredited earlier in this chapter . |
| 11 | Cry Baby Killer did not bring Nicholson any new offers and he did not work again in films for nine months . |
| 12 | Their relationship with the organisation is likely to be transient they are brought in for a particular event and might or might not work again for the same organisation . |
| 13 | The main need of these artists was for good opportunities to exhibit their work ; unlike the equally celebrated group Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) they did not work closely together . |
| 14 | If Hanson sells assets that do not work fruitfully together , it is not stripping them ; it is finding them new and better homes . |
| 15 | Are there any ways in which you think that it does or does not work particularly well , looking at hers , mine 's , mine 's more boring , hers , she actually departs from the , from the text more . |
| 16 | They parted and Melinda married Philby briefly but this did not work either and she eventually returned to America . |
| 17 | However , as you have probably realised , this will not work either . |
| 18 | Only a small fraction would elude this category if we accept that , contrary to much contemporary opinion , paupers were largely made up not of a delinquent or a wilfully dependent population but of those who could not work either through incapacity or age , or who could not , in the vagaries of the labour market , find work . |
| 19 | Let me not suggest that he could not work freely and spontaneously when he chose , as we see in the late The Gipping from Blakenham , 1977 , a watercolour which displays admirable freedom as opposed to recklessness . |
| 20 | When they do not work effectively , the unmitigated anger may well seep out in constant irritation over relatively trivial things or , as it seems to other people , may suddenly and unexpectedly break out with a degree of force inappropriate to the circumstances . |
| 21 | People can not work effectively and give their best if they are worried about unreliable childcare arrangements or children who are unsupervised . ’ |
| 22 | You are much more likely to go for old pine , or oak , tough lacquer or vinyl — at least for several years , but there is no reason why these can not work just as well and create a feeling of their own . |
| 23 | Links between the doctors , police , social workers and others did not work well . |
| 24 | The Government is , moreover , committed to markets , which can not work well without reliable information , and are severely damaged by misleading data . |
| 25 | This takes a bit of practice and does not work well if you hands tend to be on the clammy side ! |
| 26 | we find that imposing , telling or giving orders do not work well . |
| 27 | Because the project had no say in the choice of home help for a client , the development officer sometimes found a client with a home help whom she thought was unsuitable or would not work well with her support workers . |
| 28 | This is a priority because a tense , nervous student will not work well , and will be unresponsive to teaching . |
| 29 | retained direct control of the ‘ Croydon & District Tramways ’ might not work well if the new lines had to be separated administratively from the Corporation system , so they decided to set up a subsidiary company as they had done in other areas . |
| 30 | There may well be — there always are — other grounds for resisting the implementation of such a principle ; it would be time-consuming , it would be costly , it would not work well — and so on . |