Example sentences of "not work [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 2 | You can not work with a dirty tool . ’ |
| 3 | It requires planning , skill and tactics to create a winning side and if the individual players do not fit into the maze , if they can not work within a cohesive unit , then success will elude the whole team . |
| 4 | However , their memories do not work in a logical way like ours , but in an emotional fashion and by association . |
| 5 | More and more money from public taxation has been put in to such services one way or another , yet the services still do not work in a foolproof way , for a number of practical reasons . |
| 6 | The best street cleaner in London does not work in a direct labour department in Hackney , Lambeth or Lewisham . |
| 7 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 8 | It does n't work as a political play . |
| 9 | Of course the situation is not the same and the techniques you use with a five-minute sequence in the classroom obviously would n't work with a sixty-minute film . |
| 10 | This wo n't work for a single motif , but how about a single motif in black , knitted against a striped background of bright jewel colours , or white on pastel stripes ? ( for this , the card does n't need to be reversed of course . ) |
| 11 | ‘ on which a part of ( the means of operation of ) the braking system , fitted thereto ’ This point can be proved by showing the brakes do n't work by a simple test such as pushing the vehicle along the road with the brake(s) set . |
| 12 | Growing and ageing do n't work in a smooth , regular sort of way . |
| 13 | So Harriet had n't worked at a regular job . |