Example sentences of "does not work " in BNC.
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| 31 | This explanation does not work so well for the majority of the texts of Scaevola , which are not excerpts from a dogmatic tract in which the jurist was discussing the disparate regimes of legacy and trust , but opinions given in practical cases . |
| 32 | She does not work in isolation , and poor records will deprive others involved in teaching of vital information about the student . |
| 33 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |
| 34 | But if he recommends support for an idea that does not work , he will hear all about it . ’ |
| 35 | Town says the scheme does not work . |
| 36 | The obvious way of having no head of the table — the circular shape — does not work because of the prestige factor . |
| 37 | If the child is allergic to certain foods , and if the reaction is not too severe , then the drug sodium cromoglycate ( see p 315 ) maybe useful , although it does not work in all cases . |
| 38 | But it does not work that way . |
| 39 | If that does not work try packing the nostrils with cotton wool and and applying ice cubes to either side of the nose . |
| 40 | If does not work , go out into the street and find someone to help . |
| 41 | She does not work alone . |
| 42 | Make sure that the horse stays calm and does not work himself into a frenzy . |
| 43 | Do n't be fooled into thinking that familiarity will lead to acceptance — it does not work like that . |
| 44 | The combination of purple-red flowers and cream variegated foliage of Buddleia davidii ‘ Harlequin ’ may not suit all tastes but least appealing of all , for me at any rate , is the purple-flowered phlox , also called ‘ Harlequin ’ , whose leaves are generously splashed with cream , a combination which does not work for me . |
| 45 | New Yawk drawling rap over Kraftwerk 's ‘ The Model ’ just does not work , no way , no how . |
| 46 | If you try to do something about jobs , and the infrastructure is lousy , the regeneration still does not work . |
| 47 | Playing the Tory game does not work in securing power , and would n't do us any good in the long term even if it did . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | The deal clearly does not work both ways as we learned from the Squidgy tape ( a copy of which was handed to me in that very restaurant some weeks before its contents were published ) . |
| 50 | 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 ’ . |
| 51 | This is in turn used to confirm that their situation really is hopeless , and that even our support and help does not work . |
| 52 | Chemotherapy does not work with it and it rapidly spreads through the system . |
| 53 | The word ‘ appears ’ is used advisedly because , although computers have been used to show that the equation does not work for values of n up to several thousand , no one has yet been able to prove for certain that there is no number n greater than 2 for which suitable values of x , y and z can not be slotted in to produce a valid equation . |
| 54 | ‘ Do n't ever let anyone say that letter writing does not work . |
| 55 | In practice , though , the system does not work quite this way . |
| 56 | In the long run it does not work ; if it did , the parents would not be asking for advice . |
| 57 | an intervention does not work , you should : |
| 58 | They then complain that the alarm does not work . |
| 59 | Wrong ‘ Banks and industrialists who have looked into the future know it does not work on present policies . |
| 60 | ‘ Your wife does not work … |