The phrase 'clockwork for' is not traditionally used in English.
Therefore, it would not be considered a correct and usable part of a sentence. 'Clockwork' is a noun and not an adjective, so it cannot be used in this manner. If you wish to use the term 'clockwork' in a sentence, you could say, "The clockwork of the machine was precise."
The firm but fair butler always makes everything run like clockwork for the Granthams.
Everything had to go like clockwork for us to reach the summit.
As Jasmine puts it: "It was running like clockwork for 20 years.
Regular as clockwork, for the past nine seasons Arsenal Ladies have won the league each and every year.
A mere duck will not do for the clockmaker, any more than clockwork, for all its engrossing ingenuity, will do for Carey.
To really understand a mechanism — a piece of clockwork, for example — what you have to understand is what would happen if there were, for example, a tooth missing from a gear.
Hence del Toro's fondness for clockwork, and for mechanical thinglets that scuttle and click; the bugs in "Cronos," locking onto human skin, were no bigger than a mouse.
The mechanical clockworks for Su Song's astronomical tower featured a great driving-wheel that was 11 feet in diameter, carrying 36 scoops, into each of which water poured at a uniform rate from the "constant-level tank" (Needham, Fig. 653).
It was used in the clockworks for coupling the main drive shaft to the armillary sphere gearbox (rotating three small pinions), as seen in Needham's Fig. 410 and Fig. 652.
We would therefore conclude that the circadian clock as a functional unit (module) does not provide the essential clockworks for photoperiodic time measurement in R. pedestris.
It returns to Clockwork Orange for the character of the drill sergeant (for all Lee Ermey's sterling acting, it is a mere redux of the prison officer in Kubrick's earlier film).
