Example sentences of "[det] do not work " in BNC.
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| 1 | They parted and Melinda married Philby briefly but this did not work either and she eventually returned to America . |
| 2 | As this did not work the social worker accompanied the old man to the solicitor for a letter to evict the daughter . |
| 3 | Experience shows this does not work . |
| 4 | If this does not work , you will have to drain down the pipe and remove the fitting . |
| 5 | It will , without doubt , be useful to say a word aloud in a variety of stresses and vowel sound combinations , and if this does not work then to ask a native of the place being researched to say it — this is frequently a useful device if the document originated locally . |
| 6 | If the photon 's momentum were thus determined the electron 's uncertainty Δp could be made as small as we pleased , thus beating , it would seem , the restriction [ 2 ] In fact this does not work because we have to treat the microscope as also subject to quantum mechanical uncertainty . |
| 7 | If this does not work ( and I do n't think you actually have to go to France ) , you might try the recipe of the American crime short story writer , Robert Twohy , who writes out a first sentence and then sees if anything comes from it , and so on . |
| 8 | I do n't think I shall bear it if this does not work , thought Fenella . |
| 9 | If this does not work , give him a teaspoon of mustard dissolved in a tumbler of warm water . |
| 10 | This does not work . |
| 11 | If that did not work , a coalition would have to be built . |
| 12 | That did not work too well for blacks , slaves and even women . |
| 13 | If that did not work , then they could change to examining their cases . |
| 14 | When that did not work they tried pumping or spraying it on to neighbouring fields , hoping it would filter through the ground by natural causes . |
| 15 | Of course , that did not work . |
| 16 | When in 1951 he demanded another 40 per cent expansion , ‘ that did not work at all , since these steel masters had been so nourished on Malthusianism that their dominant fear was over-production . |
| 17 | If that does not work try packing the nostrils with cotton wool and and applying ice cubes to either side of the nose . |
| 18 | If that does not work , then the internal complaints procedure comes into its own and the dissatisfied client should be referred to another member of the firm ( possibly the senior partner ) or , though this perhaps will rarely be encountered , someone outside the firm who has been nominated to deal with such matters . |