Example sentences of "do [not/n't] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They do not work in isolation . |
| 4 | If Hanson sells assets that do not work fruitfully together , it is not stripping them ; it is finding them new and better homes . |
| 5 | Why is it that people continue to follow dieting regimes that do not work ? |
| 6 | However , their memories do not work in a logical way like ours , but in an emotional fashion and by association . |
| 7 | But the government of Shamir insists on Israeli soldiers , at great risk , policing the area and protecting the Jewish settlers there — fanatical characters who , according to the soldiers , do not work . |
| 8 | Either way , they would see no increase in their direct taxes under Labour , provided they do not work for a living . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Consider how the lilies grow in the fields ; they do not work , they do not spin , and yet , I tell you , even Solomon in all his splendour was not attired like one of these . |
| 11 | we find that imposing , telling or giving orders do not work well . |
| 12 | Chains , studs or snow tyres do not work at all then . |
| 13 | In this chapter we will examine various explanations of why most soil conservation policies do not work . |
| 14 | When purely environmentally-dictated policies ( such as forest closure or forcible destocking of pastures ) do not work because the social context has been analysed insufficiently , force is often contemplated ( or , in administrative language , better and tougher implementation and environmental protection ) . |
| 15 | Chemicals do not work in isolation . |
| 16 | Even if you do not work some or all of your normal hours during that period , you should still be paid for them if you are : |
| 17 | The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters . |
| 18 | When a crime is reported to the police they do not work on the assumption that anyone could have done it . |
| 19 | Normal methods of mass spectroscopy do not work in these cases because the isotopes are often obscured by molecular impurities of the same mass . |
| 20 | Which is not to say that ethyl alcohol drops do not work — they could help a chemical-sensitive patient by stimulating the liver to produce more detoxification enzymes . |
| 21 | Very often they were part-time farmers and merchants as well ; simple categories of occupation do not work in this sort of society . |
| 22 | Things do not work like this at all . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | These vary from things like ports that do not work because the sockets do not connect to their expansion card , to obscure faults such as motherboards which only work when the weather is hot . |
| 25 | Water tip : In the aquarium a minimum pH of 6.5 is sensible because filters do not work as efficiently below this level . |
| 26 | However , some things simply do not work first time out . |
| 27 | Most hospital techniques are not suitable and do not work for clients at home . |
| 28 | Do not work too hard , and be sure to go out walking a little , as well as reading , ; too much of that is bad for the eyes , especially at night . |
| 29 | ‘ Do not work in a hurry … do nothing for nothing , and see that you get paid for everything . ’ |
| 30 | I do not work . |