Example sentences of "[noun sg] do not work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wallace 's angled runs were badly missed : - the Whelan/Deane partnership did not work at the beginning of the season and never looked like it last night . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So Sarazen took on a young caddie , who , it transpired , seemed to do all the things that even the caddies of today would not dream of doing , like pulling the clubs without consultation with Sarazen , and then , if the club did not work , telling Sarazen he had just hit a bad shot — it was not his club selection at fault . |
| 5 | It is this new emphasis that causes such anxiety and guilt to those for whom self-healing does not work . |
| 6 | The word ‘ appears ’ is used advisedly because , although computers have been used to show that the equation does not work for values of n up to several thousand , no one has yet been able to prove for certain that there is no number n greater than 2 for which suitable values of x , y and z can not be slotted in to produce a valid equation . |
| 7 | If this scenario occurred often enough , you would have taught her that , if whining does not work , a noisy tantrum will do the trick . |
| 8 | Despite the effort expended on getting public areas right , many guests see only the lobby and their bedroom ; and if the bedroom does not work or the decor is offensive , the guest will not return . |
| 9 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 10 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |
| 11 | But what if the child 's mind does not work orderly ? |
| 12 | After installation , if the monitor does not work at all , check that the card is firmly pushed into its slot . |
| 13 | For a year and a day the boy did not work and hardly ever spoke but one day when he was watching his father fashion a sword for an important chief he exclaimed " That is not the way to do it " and taking the tools soon made a sword the like of which was never seen before , and so began the famous Islay swords . |
| 14 | The heater did not work . |
| 15 | So the plan did not work and the emphasis switched from stage set to soapbox . |
| 16 | The hook type do not work in the soft silt of most coarse fish waters . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is in turn used to confirm that their situation really is hopeless , and that even our support and help does not work . |
| 20 | Chemotherapy does not work with it and it rapidly spreads through the system . |
| 21 | To add to his misery , the television set in his hotel room did not work and he spent thousands of dollars on transatlantic telephone calls . |
| 22 | On the first run the purchaser discovered a number of faults ; the dynamo did not work and the lorry consumed petrol at the rate of 5 m.p.g . |
| 23 | In practice , this prohibition did not work — the ‘ two ends ’ of marriage and birth control being addressed directly , the latter most outspokenly by Patriarch Maximos IV Saigh . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On Saturday , the device did not work the second time . |
| 26 | However , this form of shift does not work for right shift , and we need arithmetic right shift , shown in row ( d ) . |
| 27 | an intervention does not work , you should : |
| 28 | Prohibition does not work in preventing alcoholism and never has done throughout history . |
| 29 | But the energy business does not work that way . |
| 30 | This process does not work so well in all examples . |