Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] do [adv] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted him to keep it going in case football did n't work out . |
| 2 | And I think there was a local radio article er a couple of days ago that said that car alarms do not work any more house alarms do providing you 've got good neighbours to respond to it . |
| 3 | Evidently the carrier landings did n't work out well as those operations and their filming was quickly terminated . |
| 4 | Chains , studs or snow tyres do not work at all then . |
| 5 | Tape drives do n't work in isolation . |
| 6 | Milk quotas do not work , and in some ways a bit of market forces might have helped the United Kingdom because we are efficient producers . |
| 7 | The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters . |
| 8 | ‘ The elevators in the main auditorium for scene changing do n't work well and they have to work well . |
| 9 | The adjustment mechanism did not work very effectively in such circumstances , as the history of the operation of the gold standard in the period after the First World War indicates . |
| 10 | Of course , it 's a tragedy when the testing system does n't work . |
| 11 | The implementation of the European Community 's 1992 programme depends very heavily on the enactment of new law , not just at Community level , but also — because most Community law does not work directly , but relies on national implementing measures — at national level . |
| 12 | ‘ This denial stuff does n't work , ’ he says . |
| 13 | Similarly , the relativist stance does not work unless it makes an exception of itself which denies its own principle . |
| 14 | The old shock tactics did n't work so well anymore ; the days of JFK and gunboats to Cuba were long gone . |
| 15 | The Samsung monitor and video card do n't work brilliantly together ; nevertheless the screen is good . |
| 16 | Although many snowboarders use standard ski boots or ski touring boots , the designs of conventional ski bindings do not work properly on snowboards . |
| 17 | I have two young children , so my wife Denise does n't work and I have a £50,000 mortgage . |
| 18 | It is no good telling me that the price mechanism does not work any more . |
| 19 | The welfare state does n't work any more . |
| 20 | The highlight grid which produces alternate light and dark background character cells does n't work with dark backgrounds and while the second grid is better it reduces all the colours to magenta or white making it almost useless for anything other than outlining . |
| 21 | The kitchen radiator does n't work and the Calorgas fire had n't warmed the place up yet . |
| 22 | Well the Council of Engineering Institutes did n't work very well ! |
| 23 | The crystal ball did n't work … . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 'll trade last night 's mis-fortune for the the run of the ball in the next 3 or 4 games : - ) Although of course life does not work that way 8–| Kev . |
| 26 | If the sex education does n't work . |
| 27 | Getting into the flat the er hydraulic door opener did n't work so you erm , you knocked the door down with a sledgehammer . |
| 28 | P S told the jury not three quarters of an hour ago that the automatic door opener did n't work , it was taken off re-fitted and the automatic door opener was used to open the door . |
| 29 | While we can see that horses are adept , sensitive and subtle communicators , human observers suffer from the disadvantage that our sense organs do not work in the same way as theirs . |
| 30 | Someone who is ill in this way , because the helper cells do n't work , is said to have AIDS . |