Example sentences of "they would not " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 2 | And at the end , after twelve cancelled variants in one short paragraph , a single sentence , itself the third attempt , tells us ‘ They would not let the orchestra go , and musicians who attempted to leave were beaten up ’ , which says all we need to know about the unstated ‘ Keep playing ! ’ whereby the liveliness of the small hours will have been sustained . |
| 3 | ‘ I do not think identity cards would have changed things — I suspect they would not have deterred people from travelling without tickets . ’ |
| 4 | They would not confirm the loan — on the ground that they never comment on arrangements with clients . |
| 5 | White House officials insist this is a misunderstanding ; US interest in the coup evaporated rapidly when the rebels made it clear that they would not hand over Noriega . |
| 6 | Lord Aldington insisted they had not been lied to , but they would not have got into the trucks if they had known they were going to Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | Institutional shareholders have told Sir Derek they would not be prepared to tolerate the introduction of a large minority shareholder on favourable terms . |
| 8 | Either they do not want to run the risk of miscarriage ( about one in 100-200 ) which the procedure entails ; or they would not want a termination even if the baby was found to be disabled . |
| 9 | She said the British people wanted the opportunities of the single market , but they would not accept ‘ nanny state meddling ’ . |
| 10 | But they would not be so rich if they were not adept at minimising tax and maximising profits . |
| 11 | ‘ There is no doubt that Charles has been offered major works at good prices ’ , says one dealer , ‘ because people wanted to see those works in his great collection ; artists have sold him paintings that they would not have sold to anyone else , and they feel betrayed . ’ |
| 12 | He decided that they would not . |
| 13 | The concept of enforcement involves — as the word implies — the use of force , compulsion : one man 's right is enforced by others being compelled to do what they would not have done of their own free will . |
| 14 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 15 | The fears of sex , of adulthood , of life ; the fears that Rachel and Phoebe would tear her apart , the fears that they would not ; the fears of love and hatred . |
| 16 | He received his certificate in July 1947 but the British coal industry had been nationalised in January of that year and his new bosses told him that in the changed circumstances they would not be able to carry out the undertaking he had been given . |
| 17 | They would not be tied to the goods of donor countries , and all funds from national sources should be in the form of grants ( already the case for a majority of donors ) . |
| 18 | They would not change . |
| 19 | They would not have gone if they were . |
| 20 | If they were that common they would not be on page one of the paper . |
| 21 | I hate bright colours and never wear make-up but they would not listen . |
| 22 | The reasons for the brutality and racism which are displayed every day at the ports of entry in Britain and at the British High Commissions in the Indian subcontinent are the laws themselves — laws which are seen as essential to wider government policy and which though blatantly racist ( in fact they would not stand up before the Race Relations Act ) were each introduced as a contribution to good community relations . |
| 23 | As for their children , they would not be allowed to live in Britain for any length of time , and while they were here they would be prevented from attending school . |
| 24 | Compartmentation of the interior means that the building is experienced in a new way — details which were once distant ( and which may have been executed in the knowledge that they would not be viewed at close hand ) are seen in ‘ close-up ’ for the first time and in relation to much smaller and more intimate spaces ( Plate 20 ) . |
| 25 | Under the censorship rules in force throughout the 1930s , they would not have been able to cast aspersions on a foreign power , tackle the relations between capital and labour , or take an irreverent view of the army . |
| 26 | Hendry turned down earlier chances to join Chelsea and City when they would not meet his personal terms . |
| 27 | That was also the political judgment of the terrorists , or they would not be so anxious to be interviewed by the media or so against the ban . |
| 28 | There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies . |
| 29 | There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies . |
| 30 | He argued at a Westminster press conference that in only 35 out of 403 local authority areas would any claimants gain or break even , despite Mrs Thatcher 's pledge in July 1987 that they would not be adversely affected . |