Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] do [adv] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central locking does n't work on the boot ; it remained unlocked for two months before Darren realised . |
| 2 | I regret , the central heating does not work ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I bet the moving staircase does n't work , Mummy , ’ pipes the lad , evidently a seasoned tube traveller . |
| 6 | Yet human psychology does not work that way . |
| 7 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 8 | David said , ‘ Sex without a close emotional relationship does n't work for me either . |
| 9 | The associative process did not work with Rufus in quite the same way as it did with his erstwhile friend , Adam Verne-Smith , for Adam was an ‘ arts ’ person and he a scientist , so that Greek or Spanish names , for instance , evoked none of it . |
| 10 | ‘ And the learned educationist began to entertain a horrible suspicion that the reverse process did n't work . |
| 11 | On any sensible view of the matter Darwinian selection does not work on genes directly . |
| 12 | empty out and if the automatic stuff do n't work . |
| 13 | The maximum fees that companies can charge for inspection or copies are now prescribed by regulations ( the former practice of stating them in the primary legislation did not work well in an inflationary climate ) and these regulations clarify the obligations of companies regarding inspection and copies . |
| 14 | Like physical ailments and er our , our , our physical body does n't work like it used to , and as you do get older there is a tendency to more to , to need more rest , we ca n't do what the young ones er do , and we would love to do that and that goes along with what the council and the |
| 15 | To try to lead a normal life did n't work at all . |
| 16 | Just as in-service education does not work if it has not been tailored to match the stage or condition of the teacher who is to benefit from it , so the manager can not manage unless the method and style of management are acceptable and unless its purposes have been first unravelled and then knitted together after consultation between the manager and the manager 's colleagues . |
| 17 | Although Liberals and Social Democrats claim that the established electoral system does not work as its defenders say it should , they are at their most forceful when they point out that the established system is " unfair " and unrepresentative . |
| 18 | The Lamarckian effect did not work , and the only conceivable mechanism of evolution was the natural selection of variations arising spontaneously in the germ plasm . |
| 19 | Normal methods of mass spectroscopy do not work in these cases because the isotopes are often obscured by molecular impurities of the same mass . |
| 20 | Word-list style is a careful style in his terms ( but as we have shown in a number of publications , Labov 's predictions about the stylistic continuum did not work in this divergent-dialect community in the way that they had worked in New York City ) . |
| 21 | The first choice of a single builder did not work out , but Timothy Easton has high praise for his replacement , Barry Rose , from Debenham : ‘ He was excellent and could do virtually anything . ’ |
| 22 | But passive resistance does n't work . |
| 23 | The work on subliminal learning does n't work Okay , Brown suggests that you bring a c wardrobe of cuddly toys and mementoes and things like that that were in the room when you were learning , context dependent learning . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ We once got a two-player-only aerial dogfighter ( Dying High , where the second-joystick option did n't work , making the game unplayable ! ’ |
| 27 | I 'm surprised that er call to the local councillor did n't work . |
| 28 | And , despite the CPP 's best efforts , attempts to intimidate people into voting for the governing party did not work ( see page 71 ) : by mid-week the CPP was trailing FUNCINPEC , the party founded by Prince Norodom Sihanouk and run by his son Prince Ranariddh , by 38% to 46% . |