Example sentences of "does n't work " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE 'S a saying in the computer industry : ‘ If in doubt , press a few keys ; if that does n't work , ask a colleague ; if in deep trouble , consult the manual . ’ |
| 2 | The welfare state does n't work any more . |
| 3 | ‘ Look , if it does n't work out , come back and see us and we 'll try to do something for you , OK ? ’ |
| 4 | The wrath of Achilles does n't work like Dostoevsky 's novel at all , and not because it 's an old tale . |
| 5 | The ship Narcissus in her fight to the southward does n't work like this either . |
| 6 | The contrast with Yeats is instructive , and it does n't work in Pound 's favour . |
| 7 | ‘ This does n't work . |
| 8 | There was a tidal wave of pessi — mistic literature on this theme — The Future that Does n't Work : Social Democracy 's Failures in Britain ( 1977 ) ; The Politics of Economic Decline ( 1979 ) ; Britain : Progress and Decline ( 1980 ) ; and , most evocatively of all , Is Britain Dying ? |
| 9 | If that does n't work , you can always sell the record at gigs and get back your investment that way . |
| 10 | Dance music , too , often does n't work on radio . |
| 11 | It said ‘ do not go on the grass ’ , translated literally from the Norwegian — somehow the story does n't work so well in English . |
| 12 | The price includes a dedicated cassette recorder , the C2N , which does n't work particularly well , if at all , with today 's fast-loading games . |
| 13 | A 10-year-old asks for shoes : ‘ Right now my mother does n't work . ’ |
| 14 | In a place with an acoustic as dry and an atmosphere as worldly as Birmingham Town Hall it does n't work . |
| 15 | ‘ I bet the moving staircase does n't work , Mummy , ’ pipes the lad , evidently a seasoned tube traveller . |
| 16 | That does n't work ! |
| 17 | Simon laughed : ‘ He does n't work for anybody . |
| 18 | ‘ That box does n't work any more . |
| 19 | It does n't work on a movie set . |
| 20 | But passive resistance does n't work . |
| 21 | Except that it does n't work like that . |
| 22 | It does n't work if you cook the two together , for gin is exceptionally fugitive . |
| 23 | Of course , it 's a tragedy when the testing system does n't work . |
| 24 | To a boy who declares himself stuck about what colour to use , he says : ‘ Well , Sickert said that when in doubt put a little of the last colour into the next colour you use , and that gives harmony : it does n't work to use a colour in isolation — white and black are the two parents , red in isolation can appear like a wound in the picture — it 's like friendships , we all know the awful consequences if a new person joins a group and the friendships are n't mixed through , it 's the same with colours . ’ |
| 25 | If this does n't work , try it with Molegrips . |
| 26 | ‘ If they fall into the sea we 'll know it does n't work and we wo n't go . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If this one does n't work then I do n't know what will . ’ |
| 28 | He does n't work for Templeton 's but a firm producing sheet metal . |
| 29 | When it does n't work they turn away , none the unhappier it would seem . |
| 30 | You can always tell when a short story is drifting towards a novel , and that 's when it does n't work . |