Example sentences of "it is n't work " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is n't working yet , ’ Wexford said , a shade nervously . |
| 2 | It was as if the phrase , ‘ If it is n't hurting , it is n't working , ’ had never crossed his lips . |
| 3 | So you begin to take more cocaine , and quite soon you need more and more cocaine to unlock the gates of heaven , and once you reach heaven you do n't want to leave it and so you take still more cocaine , but by then it is n't working . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I tell you , it is n't working , ’ Ferd Frog was saying . |
| 5 | Prime Minister Major once said : ‘ If it is n't hurting it is n't working . ’ |
| 6 | But it is n't working out . |
| 7 | Referring to a speech by John Major , he added : ‘ It was n't a building society chief executive who said ‘ If it is n't hurting , it is n't working ’ ’ . |
| 8 | But there is some strain on the heart and it is rather large and it is n't working so well . |
| 9 | Well I , that 's really the only reason I came up was because I wondered if they wanted to take me off it , you know if you wanted to change it , because i it is n't working . |
| 10 | It 's probably only that old quack Hardacre feeding him the wrong antibiotics — Agnes shared George 's view of Sir Frank ‘ — but if each course takes five days before they decide it is n't working , it can run on . |
| 11 | I 've had a look at it , but I ca n't find why it is n't working . |
| 12 | ‘ It is n't working , ’ Keith says . |
| 13 | The assertion , ’ If it is n't hurting , it is n't working , ’ shows callous disregard and ignorance of the effects of social problems on individuals , families and communities at the sharp end . |
| 14 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 15 | The catch phrase ‘ If it is n't hurting , it is n't working ’ came to epitomize this approach to anti-inflation policy . |
| 16 | ‘ But if it is n't working out , then I 'll sell . |
| 17 | It is n't working ! |