Example sentences of "does [adv] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force of a runner 's foot deflects the pavement very little in running , and therefore does little work ( in the Newtonian sense ) on his environment . |
| 2 | This bearish tactic does not work as well as in a stock market , for art works are widely dispersed , and decisions to buy or sell may be thoroughly unpredictable . |
| 3 | Does not work if taken over 12 hours late , or if there is sickness or diarrhoea , when extra precautions must be used . |
| 4 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 5 | The trick does not work , but at least it leads to the hiding of Colas in Lise 's bedroom and the awful discovery of the two of them together just as Alain has received the key and goes to claim his bride . |
| 6 | ‘ Tactically to combine the interests of a miner and an environmentalist just does not work . |
| 7 | ‘ We must be sure that they are alive to the evidence here , no less than in the East , that socialism does not work . ’ |
| 8 | In their view , global marketing as recommended by Levitt does not work because : |
| 9 | The idea that there is an investment-equivalent of the detergent that washes whiter than white just does not work . |
| 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 | It does not work because the emotion and atmosphere in the rest of the play have been too slight to support it . |
| 12 | This takes a bit of practice and does not work well if you hands tend to be on the clammy side ! |
| 13 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 14 | In reality , the theory of wealth ‘ trickling down ’ does not work and the farce of a ‘ representative ’ rather than a delegated democracy means that a high price is extracted from society for the ‘ freedom ’ on offer , since social cohesion and environmental safeguards are no necessary part of the legislative framework which allows capital to keep on growing . |
| 15 | Experience shows this does not work . |
| 16 | It is strong with public service workers whose relation to the generation of wealth is indirect , but it does not work with the young bank employee in Basildon with £15,000 a year and prospects . |
| 17 | If a radiator starts leaking and a leak sealer does not work you will have no choice but to replace the radiator . |
| 18 | If this does not work , you will have to drain down the pipe and remove the fitting . |
| 19 | Thus I claim that for decades we have attempted to change the nature of the art in order to meet the requirements of child-centred education — and have felt guilty because it does not work . |
| 20 | In practice , life does not work out quite like that . |
| 21 | Fortunately , perhaps , life does not work like that . |
| 22 | But the energy business does not work that way . |
| 23 | When official conservation often does not work , part of the problem may lie in the assumptions which the conservationist , government servant or politician may make about the cause of failure . |
| 24 | On any sensible view of the matter Darwinian selection does not work on genes directly . |
| 25 | The susceptibility of individuals to disease ; if animals are kept or treated in such a way that their immune system does not work very well , that in itself tells you that their welfare is less good than it might be . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At the time of writing , synthetic insulin — which to the scientist is chemically identical to that secreted in the pancreas — can not be administered to diabetic people because it simply does not work ; yet pig 's insulin injected into the human body does ! |
| 28 | If this scenario occurred often enough , you would have taught her that , if whining does not work , a noisy tantrum will do the trick . |
| 29 | It will , without doubt , be useful to say a word aloud in a variety of stresses and vowel sound combinations , and if this does not work then to ask a native of the place being researched to say it — this is frequently a useful device if the document originated locally . |
| 30 | If you find next time you need that remedy that it again does not work , put another mark on the bottle and give it one more chance before discarding the whole bottle . |