Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of traders in York , Middlesbrough , Newcastle and other towns and cities around the country is that pedestrianisation does work for them . |
| 2 | So amidst the doom and gloom that seems to cloud the the African horizon , we can see that aid does work and in the example I 've just given , that it works indeed for children . |
| 3 | If all those [ computer ] models do work , it will give us a lot more confidence working on all those other problems , ’ ( Science News , 21 August 1982 , p 121 ) . |
| 4 | Fate does work things out , you know — but never in the way you expect . ’ |
| 5 | It is true that William Cobbett , born in 1766 , was to write , " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my living " , but he was the son of a moderately successful small farmer in a district where hop growing enabled a decent living from small acreages for a family with three sons to help work it . |
| 6 | If individual deterrence did work as the theory suggests , we would expect that if we introduced a new kind of harsh punishment designed to deter , the offenders who suffered the new punishment would be measurably less likely to re-offend than similar offenders who underwent a more lenient penalty . |
| 7 | We 've also we believe got concrete evidence to show that community based alternatives do work . |
| 8 | Gloucestershire 's social workers do work with abused children , but there are no funds for specialist units . |
| 9 | The interesting question , in the present context , is how far these can be coordinated with familiar pedagogic techniques , thereby bringing research within the compass of normal teaching ; or , in more general terms , what implications does work on classroom observation have for developments in teacher education ( see Allwright 1988 ) . |
| 10 | The process does work on genuinely dirty records but , unfortunately , can not provide the Lazarus touch for discs that have been played on decks that use a small chisel as a stylus . |
| 11 | And , ‘ the ‘ Bum and Thigh ’ diet does work ! |
| 12 | One thing weighs in Cable 's favour : his principles do work , and he proves that the usage of final -e in ME alliterative verse is not unsystematic . |
| 13 | Number two which is PHI again you know they 're married , they have two children , again this person 's a chartered accountant , however his wife does work and you 'll be using , let's see okay the income protection disability accident and illness page , just the top half to probe and gain his thoughts on income protection if he were to break his back and what he or she may or may not have er already set up , yeah ? |
| 14 | Er , as you know , Gethyn does work for the Church in Wales now and this , in a special way , is a testifies to the fact that he is er an ecumenical person . |
| 15 | For many years , old time Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Young did work there , cutting across the divide with a brand of comedy that hit at both sides . |
| 16 | But wives did work , often longer hours than their menfolk . |
| 17 | People do work without the institutional system of capitalism and they are assured of a reasonable livelihood . |
| 18 | Active methods of treatment for venous ulcers do work , but the ‘ Hawthorn ’ effect must be remembered , in that part of any improvement is due to the change as much as the method , or ‘ a change is a s good as a rest ’ . |
| 19 | She says that it 's good to have confirmation that penicillin does work against this form of the disease . |
| 20 | The doctor who lead the trial says that proves the patch does work . |
| 21 | I think from time to time , little bits of the Government do work reasonably well , and do respond reasonably well to county council and local authority initiatives , and although I could n't pretend that a hundred and , that twenty- five thousand pounds is going to solve the unemployment problem in Wiltshire , nor indeed solve the problem being created by the run- down of defence industry , nevertheless , I think credit should be given where credit 's due . |
| 22 | Experts say chicanes do work but wrongly designed they can speed traffic up . |
| 23 | The magician did work magic . |
| 24 | But this approach does work and the Nineties should witness regular use of modelling in marketing planning . |
| 25 | He tries to obtain fresh herbs where possible , and grows a few in his garden as a standby , although dried herbs do work if the fresh variety is not available . |
| 26 | ‘ There is a lot of circumstantial evidence that Mills did work for the Russians . ’ |
| 27 | When the two groups do work together the outcome is better . |
| 28 | Even if you have an accountancy qualification , for example , it may be better to let another qualified member of the profession do work on your behalf while you shift to a non accountancy task . |
| 29 | We have all been given golf tips at some time or other while playing , and some tips do work . |
| 30 | To those of us working at this particular neurotic coal-face , it is very cheering to know that ( at least in a number of prize-winning cases ) advertising does work . |