Example sentences of "[pron] would not accept " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Justice Watkins added : ‘ I would not accept that he did so to deceive his creditors , present or future . ’ |
| 2 | I would not accept this extreme position . |
| 3 | About to tell him hotly that she would not accept any legacy , Jenna was interrupted sharply , the words dying on her lips as he stood and began to pace about restlessly , hands in his pockets . |
| 4 | She flew into a rage and vowed she would not accept Silas 's ring until he 'd evicted that bossy , domineering woman from the house in which they would begin their married life . ’ |
| 5 | At some point before 664 Ealhfrith ejected Eata , abbot of Melrose and a pupil of Aidan ( HE III , 16 ) , and his companion , Cuthbert , who would not accept the Catholic Easter and other canonical rites of the Roman Church , from his new foundation at Ripon and committed it instead to Wilfrid ( HE III , 25 : V , 19 ) It was with Ealhfrith that Bishop Agilbert and his priest , Agatho , stayed when they visited the northern Angles prior to arguing in favour of the Dionysian Easter at the council of Whitby ( HE III , 25 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ We would not accept that , ’ said Irene . |
| 7 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 8 | She said the British people wanted the opportunities of the single market , but they would not accept ‘ nanny state meddling ’ . |
| 9 | In private , they said it was a warning that they stood four-square behind their chief , and that they would not accept behind-the-scenes pressure on him to resign . |
| 10 | What they would not accept was that vain and dreadful C.P. Snow , whose appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology was as insulting to the scientific community as it was to the Labour Party . |
| 11 | They would not accept that the students could act spontaneously and have their own views outside of the party 's direction . |
| 12 | Just as the creoles did not want good government manned by the civil servants of an absolute monarch , so they would not accept rule by a metropolitan parliament , managed by Spanish liberals . |
| 13 | Although the Prime Minister admitted having signed a document agreeing to the rebel demands , the security forces made it clear that they would not accept the validity of this contract . |
| 14 | Similarly , in response to the Feb. 19 announcement by the major car manufacturer Autolatina ( the holding company for Ford and Volkswagen in Brazil ) that it intended to shed 8,000 jobs , workers at two car plants in Sao Bernardo near Sao Paulo stopped production and blocked a highway , and leaders of the Sao Paulo Metal Worker 's Union stated that they would not accept the dismissals . |
| 15 | Mr McLevy said the workers had been locked out because they would not accept a cut of 10 per cent in their fringe benefits and a wages freeze . |
| 16 | The Druze leader , Walid Jumblatt , said in Amman yesterday that the Taif deal would not bring peace to Lebanon and that , although he did not intend to block it , he would not accept it either . |
| 17 | He must be more patient and brace himself up to realise that he was the only person who could tackle the present chaotic state of affairs , ' This was the fourth time the King had told MacDonald that he would not accept his resignation . |
| 18 | In January , the day before a conference on chemical weapons opened in Paris , the Romanian leader announced publicly that he would not accept a ban on chemical weapons unless a universal ban on nuclear weapons was agreed at the same time . |
| 19 | ‘ His only shirt , blue and white check , was always spotless and though friends offered him clothes to replace his worn velvet suit he would not accept them . ’ |
| 20 | He would not accept their continual bleatings that they just wanted to ‘ be in a band and make great records . ’ |
| 21 | He would not accept an alternative worker . |
| 22 | As he knew there would be no uncertainty about accepting the admission fees from the audience , he told them he would not accept and instead negotiated a nominal fee which at least kept the dancers in work . |
| 23 | He would not accept the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ . |
| 24 | What he would not accept was the refusal to make available to him , face to face , the eyewitness . |
| 25 | That 's what the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom said , but the reality is even worse : Postal Minister Wolfgang Boetsch said on the radio that he would not accept the plans to raise the cost of local calls from 1995 — and he gets the final say . |
| 26 | Cobalt could hardly refuse , but Joseph was adamant he would not accept . |
| 27 | He told us that he would not accept a treaty that was not in Britain 's interest . |
| 28 | The US government 's five-year US$2,000 million Andean anti-drug aid programme [ see pp. 36889 ; 37243-44 ; 37451 ] suffered a setback on Sept. 27 when President Alberto Keinya Fujimori announced that he would not accept US military aid worth US$35,900,000 to combat drug trafficking . |
| 29 | Bush indicated a willingness to approve an increase in taxation of the wealthy and to defer a cut in capital gains tax , but said that he would not accept the House budget proposals . |
| 30 | This concession was ignored by the other resistance parties , and Hun Sen said in a speech at the end of the month that he would not accept Sihanouk as SNC chair and did not want to be an SNC vice-chair . |