Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hammonds , intent on fraud , certainly would not have explained the proposed sale transaction to Mrs. Steed . |
| 2 | Like almost all other ministers he avoided visiting the defeated South as such a trip would not have fitted the received view of America which both hosts and visitors wished to retain . |
| 3 | He would also like to see plea bargaining introduced , although he says he would not have accepted a reduced criminal plea . |
| 4 | That was an odd comment to come from the right hon. Gentleman who , judged from his comments in recent days , would not have accepted the social charter . |
| 5 | And success by striking civil servants , seeking an improvement in pay , would not have imposed an intolerable strain on the state . |
| 6 | The sentence should have read it : ‘ It proved possible to maintain a limited number of local foster placements which would not have met the central standards of a specialist fostering team , but which met the temporary needs of certain local children more appropriately . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Without the programme I would not have prepared a proper business plan or met the contacts essential to business ’ . |
| 8 | This would not have pleased the old 19th century residents who took care to have the information ‘ of South Newbald ’ or ‘ of North Newbald ’ recorded on their tombstones . |
| 9 | We can hypothesize that he would not have survived the rigorous processes of peer review in the British system and it is exceedingly difficult to envisage him negotiating the hazards of leading a party from the dispatch box in the House of Commons . |
| 10 | Dublin claimed allegations made in Parliament and the British Press linking Mr Ryan with the IRA meant he would not have faced a fair trial . |
| 11 | Had we not spent even more money on the BAIE Awards this year by advertising on the inside front cover of the magazine , we would not have received a single name check for 15 awards during the whole evening and in all the attendant publicity . |
| 12 | Louise would not have made an unsuccessful marriage in the first place , and she supposed her marriage must be unsuccessful , because Edward had told her that she was not a woman . |
| 13 | If my son had been on medication at the end of last year he would not have made an unprovoked attack on his father in November , nor attempted to share his New Year 's Eve lunch with the lions . |
| 14 | So even if the Queen had disapproved of her daughter 's remarriage , she would not have risked a national outcry by snubbing the wedding . |
| 15 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 16 | Ana came out of the pool at that moment and it was a good job she could n't see or her face would not have had the happy smile . |
| 17 | Such a system would not have reduced the wide disparity in standards of care or the process of means testing or the financial difficulties of the voluntary hospitals . |
| 18 | Assuming similar proportions even a study of 5000 patients would not have shown a significant difference between the two groups . |
| 19 | A repetition is justified under the principle of relevance because the hearer would not have recovered the extra contextual effects without it . |
| 20 | Indeed in one section , concerned with the effects of improvement and major repairs on the number of houses to be replaced , the report comments that ‘ Solomon himself would not have known the correct answer ’ . |
| 21 | There would have been no sense in which men with such a moral sense would have been mistaken , would not have known the real moral truth . |
| 22 | But we would n't be starting at that , at the point that you did because we did not , would not have spent the approaching five million that you spent in the first er , month or two of this council . |
| 23 | I understand that feeling because we have had to do things that are counter intuitive and very difficult but unless we had driven inflation out of the system we would not have provided a proper platform for secure long term growth . |
| 24 | Such similarities would not have surprised the great anatomist Cajal , who , overwhelmed by his first view of the insect optic lobe , wrote : |
| 25 | For the middle classes , able to live a comfortable life with servants to take care of domestic matters and to minister to the needs of dependent members of the household , giving a home to an elderly relative would not have meant the automatic provision of unpaid care by female relatives . |
| 26 | I would not have put a stray dog out into such a night . |
| 27 | Though the Carlsson got the thumbs-up , Michael Stewart would not have chosen the white version : ‘ It looks like a glitzy yacht ’ he felt ; ‘ Grotesque ’ , agreed his wife ; ‘ A hairdryer ’ , concluded our photographer . |
| 28 | Rentokil would not have won the coveted Business Enterprise Award as company of the year had it not been for individuals playing their part , as our Chief Executive Clive Thompson reiterated ‘ this award is for the Rentokil people and the contribution this Company has made to improving the environment ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I would go down to the beach around 7am for an hour and would not have used a proper skin care procedure . |
| 30 | He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most . |