Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] allowed " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then at the end … the little lad was there , they let him , I 'd not have allowed … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If they had been , they 'd never have allowed me to mix with their children . |
| 3 | They 'd never have allowed me on a scheduled flight , and this is one party I would n't miss . |
| 4 | ‘ I could see that he was touched by my offer , but of course his wife would not have allowed that . |
| 5 | My friend , the student , could not have begun to agree to that , and of course the taxi driver would not have allowed him to . |
| 6 | However , he was persuaded to stay in England when he considered that his poor state of health probably would not have allowed him to survive the hardship of a long sea voyage in those days . |
| 7 | She was less close to Gildas , whom she regarded with some slight awe , for she feared his irony and his sharp tongue , and would not have allowed him the slightest ‘ liberty ’ had he not cleverly , for he was very clever , ‘ set up , a conversation which led her , through a series of exchanges , into the danger area . |
| 8 | This system is better than the absolute waste of pulping , but it leads to major breakdowns of a kind that the private libraries would not have allowed under any circumstances . |
| 9 | Had ICI focused earlier on shareholder value creation , he said , it would not have allowed a value gap to develop and so become a target for Hanson 's predatory schemes . |
| 10 | Embalming would not have allowed for this and , had the person not been dead prior to the beginning of the operation , he certainly would be once it was all over . |
| 11 | They would not have allowed people to pluck them up , take them prisoner , tie a noose round their necks and kill them . |
| 12 | Had I realised what had happened I would not have allowed it . ’ |
| 13 | Of course Marguerite would not be here unless she had already found a companion ; Alain would not have allowed it . |
| 14 | ‘ Homework , ’ Herr Nordern said with more sympathy than he would normally have allowed himself . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't worry , there was no way in the world that I would ever have allowed Janice to get anywhere near her . ’ |
| 16 | The shank was inserted into a circular socket on the handle for rigidity , and this would also have allowed the handle to be reused if such proved necessary . |
| 17 | ‘ I am in the pink , ’ said Dot , though she knew she was n't or she would n't have allowed herself to weep the day before . |
| 18 | Frankly , a lot of them I would n't have allowed in my own home , let alone the Palace . |
| 19 | The ceremony took place in the Max-Joseph hall of the Residenz , the former Wittelsbach royal palace , most of whose former residents — according to one aghast Munchener — ‘ would n't have allowed Waldheim through the kitchen entrance ’ . |
| 20 | Edward was Craig 's friend , surely he would n't have allowed Craig to go to prison in his place ? |
| 21 | They would n't have allowed them , you know , did n't want to kill themselves like that . |
| 22 | He would n't have allowed her to grab his spotlight , even on radio . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe I would n't have allowed Marissa to cause me so much unhappiness . |
| 24 | I would n't have allowed our love to rekindle otherwise but … ’ |
| 25 | And that , by and large , is what tests have done , enabling millions of people from poor or deprived backgrounds to develop their abilities better than the circumstances of birth would otherwise have allowed . |
| 26 | Order twen er , rule twenty , eight , four provides that when a party is entitled to costs , and that of course is the case of the plaintiffs , a , fails without good reason to commence or conduct proceedings for the taxation of those costs in accordance with this order or any direction or b , delays lodging a bill of costs for taxation , the taxing office may one , disallow already part of the costs of taxation that he would otherwise would warn about the party and two , after taking into account all the circumstances , including any prejudice suffered by any other party as result of such failure or delay as the case maybe , and any additional interest payable under section seventeen of the judgements act because of the failure or delay , allow the party so entitled less than the amount he would otherwise have allowed on taxation of the bill are wholly disallowed the costs , his provision for an appeal to allow to the judge and chambers and that is the way the matter is coming before |
| 27 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |
| 28 | He has been seated on his horse since 1916 , when he was installed , contemplating a chaos he would never have allowed from his soldiers . |
| 29 | If there were a loving God , she argued , he would never have allowed it to happen . |
| 30 | But intuition used to be the favoured type of knowledge , and St Thomas Aquinas , for example , would never have allowed intuition to constitute a specifically feminine attribute , because it would have meant admitting that women were nearer God . |