Example sentences of "would [not/n't] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been taken to mean that teaching children together with the aid of a definite programme to reduce prejudice would not work , thus invalidating any proposed integration of schooling . |
| 2 | This is not to say that other methods would not work , but it is unwise to use non-standard methods for recovery from a fully developed spin , even if they appear to work better . |
| 3 | When they did bestir themselves on rare occasions , as in 1917 , but more slowly than any other group , they could read plainly Christian meanings into Bolshevik slogans such as ‘ universal peace ’ and ‘ if any would not work , neither should he eat ’ . |
| 4 | For an anguished three minutes Herr Nordern thought that the Lada would not work but , in company with a neighbour s antiquated Volkswagen , after a bout of racking , early morning , heavy smoker 's coughing , it came to a sort of half-life as , quite unnecessarily , because the Lada 's engine could be heard half-way across Berlin , Herr Nordern tooted its feeble horn . |
| 5 | Against such calculations were those MPs who believe the hard-right strategy would not work and that Mr Tebbit is too flawed , too shrewd and too devoted to his wife , Margaret — crippled in the IRA 's Brighton bombing of 1984 — to make a serious bid . |
| 6 | On the following day , the coal owners locked out those miners who would not work at lower rates of pay — of up to 49 per cent in the badly affected export area of South Wales — and attempted to suspend national agreements . |
| 7 | This does not mean that Paisley would not be glad of the support ( such as he had in his campaign to ‘ Save Ulster From Sodomy ’ ) of individual Catholics , but he would not work with Catholic organizations or officials of the Catholic Church because that might dilute his separatist witness . |
| 8 | Because the project had no say in the choice of home help for a client , the development officer sometimes found a client with a home help whom she thought was unsuitable or would not work well with her support workers . |
| 9 | Hall 's ideas , which he was later to endorse strongly ( Hall , 1982a ; 1982b ) were based on the idea that inner-urban decline in some British cities had gone so far that orthodox approaches to regeneration would not work . |
| 10 | The traditional story is that Edison sketched out the idea to his mechanic John Kruesi , who built it and bet a box of cigars it would not work . |
| 11 | It seems to us that this approach would not work where the ideas are essentially novel or controversial . |
| 12 | Indeed , in many EC jurisdictions ( for example , the Netherlands ) there is no concept of trust or , therefore , of beneficial interests ; a person 's rights to shares held by another on their behalf rest only in contract and therefore a notification requirement based on beneficial ownership would not work . |
| 13 | Even drawing lightning sketches to then elaborate upon in the studio would not work for me . |
| 14 | → Dealing with your ideas in order , buying a secondhand valve amp to use with your existing combo speaker would not work because of the complex switching required to bypass the amplifiers into dummy loads ( a valve amp can not be left on without the speaker or a dummy load in circuit ) as well as input routing to both amps . |
| 15 | The current level of intelligence is so poor that over half the members of active service units on the mainland have no previous police or intelligence ‘ form ’ ( which is one reason why internment would not work ) . |
| 16 | CIMA suggested that the proposals should be included in Cadbury 's code of best practice , while Coopers & Lybrand thought that a Stock Exchange requirement would not work and added that ‘ it could not see why the OFR could not in principle be a Financial Reporting Standard ’ . |
| 17 | The foreman of the drilling crew said they would not work for any company that is in dispute with the local people . |
| 18 | One lady who only saw Terris once would not work in the station again and demanded a move to a ‘ normal station ’ . |
| 19 | Even drawing lightning sketches to then elaborate upon in the studio would not work for me . |
| 20 | Slogans alone would not work . |
| 21 | This linguistic strategy would not work if the term Americans automatically conjured up a picture of women . |
| 22 | The earlier staff meeting had shown that journalists would not work under Sutton . |
| 23 | Mrs Dibble experienced Lena 's generosity when the ribber attachment she had bought from a mail order company would not work on her machine . |
| 24 | Fiendishly complex and built to proprietary standards — which meant they would not work with rival machines — those mainframes locked corporate customers into a lifetime of IBM systems , software and service contracts . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State , Cordell Hull , believed that the application of trusteeship offered the most satisfactory solution , in part because he held that the Soviet Union and Kuomintang China would not work together after the Pacific War and that an American role in trusteeship with the Soviet Union , China and Great Britain would be indispensable . |
| 26 | Next , even if it were secure in itself , it would not work . |
| 27 | It would not work because it assumes compliance by those who own the assets and resources , other than labour , of industry ; and that assumption ignores that there inheres in ownership an inalienable right to determine whether , and if so how , to use those assets and resources . |
| 28 | And , it would not work because the arrangement 2x + y does not provide a means of bringing accountability to bear on the performance of management : for it is highly improbable that a group of people which is primarily a derivative from two opposed and irreconcilable interests can effectively be called to account by either ; and the addition of a third group accountable to no one further confounds the confusion . |
| 29 | The feathery gill attached to a stalk alongside the leg that had served their aquatic relatives , the-crustaceans , would not work in air . |
| 30 | There may well be — there always are — other grounds for resisting the implementation of such a principle ; it would be time-consuming , it would be costly , it would not work well — and so on . |