Example sentences of "not work on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had opposed it along with the rest of the General Advisory Committee but it was no clear-cut moral stand : ‘ I never urged anyone not to work on the hydrogen bomb project , ’ he told the inquiry . |
| 2 | Protestors fighting plans to open a clinic for sex offenders have persuaded contractors not to work on the building . |
| 3 | All this suggests that gentle pressure will not work on the press . |
| 4 | When a crime is reported to the police they do not work on the assumption that anyone could have done it . |
| 5 | They read Drude 's plant geography and decided to do a similar study , but soon found that the European techniques did not work on the almost featureless prairie . |
| 6 | The Department has taken away the earnings-related supplement , and have got rid of death and maternity grant and income support for 16 and 17-year-olds who would not work on the Tory Government 's slave labour schemes . |
| 7 | The Liberal Democrats were not working on the hypothesis that the phone would ring to ask them to join a coalition government . |
| 8 | If those men were not working on the gas I would go over there now , and I 'd switch the fire and I 'd leave it on . |
| 9 | We work all year round but ca n't work on the uplands during the winter months — we might not see it for six to eight weeks . |
| 10 | The central locking does n't work on the boot ; it remained unlocked for two months before Darren realised . |
| 11 | There are two sons but the elder one 's no good and wo n't work on the farm . |
| 12 | if we do n't work on the strategy that I 've been suggesting |
| 13 | did n't work on the machinery so much . |
| 14 | Women do n't work on the land in this country . |
| 15 | He was rather perturbed that his in-bleeper would n't work on the train 's radiophone . ) |
| 16 | Well no I do n't work on the nights anyway , you know we 're full time so full time just do n't work nights |
| 17 | erm Yes , now if we get to about half way down there 's a plus in the margin , and the third line in the bracket below that plus , more or less on a level with a three dot , and a little bit below , it says , William , I think it 's Wilkinson , a minister , curate of St Ebbe 's Parish , ‘ his answer that he must attend the burials and christenings ’ , so obviously he could n't work on the fortifications . |
| 18 | Well , flight had n't worked on the other two occasions , but , for the sake of her own sanity , this had to be third time lucky . |
| 19 | We were n't working on the hard drive . |
| 20 | And when it was n't working on the farm a transport on the back and a bag of straw to sit on and it became the family 's personal transport . |