Example sentences of "would not be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They have often received inadequate parenting themselves , had negative experiences of the legal process and have been judged by standards which would not be applied to most ordinary people ( and which many ‘ ordinary parents ’ would fail to meet ) .
2 The inspector has also suggested that Extra Statutory Concession A 71 would not be applied in this case , as he would not be convinced that any of the following three criteria apply :
3 I knew that such modern ideas would not be countenanced in this establishment hareem of Al Ain , however .
4 The Gater Committee on Film Production Costs , which reported in October 1949 , was in no doubt that the film industry had brought its latest crisis down upon its own head , through creating ‘ a general atmosphere of extravagance and unreality , leading to a disregard of expense which would not be tolerated in other forms of business . ’
5 The Council is , thanks to the SEA , more than ever the true ‘ Parliament ’ of the European Community in that it — rather than the Strasbourg assembly — passes the Community 's laws and does so , moreover , behind closed doors in ways which would not be tolerated in any individual national member state .
6 Instead , they are to be shackled indefinitely to the burden of paying high toll charges which would not be tolerated in any other part of the country .
7 In turn , this can lead to an acceptance of physical ill-health that would not be tolerated by younger people .
8 Such slow-moving particles would not be detected in conventional particle-physics experiments , which register a particle 's passage by its ionisation of atoms in the detecting medium .
9 Unlawful sexual intercourse has been laid down ( not , I am reliably informed , quite incontrovertibly , but any fresh interpretation would not be made without considerable legal argument ) as any sexual intercourse outside the lawful state of marriage .
10 Although reveille had been at 0400 hours , the landing would not be made until first light at 0850 .
11 This would of course mean that the costing documentation processed for each day , week or month ( depending on the size of the company ) would not be split between individual contracts , development or overhead items , but filed in order of processing .
12 His reported reaction was that if his order could answer a hundred heretics a year , they would not be beaten by one Catholic .
13 Surely those who extended the hand of ideological comradeship to the Third Reich would not be treated in such a manner ?
14 He said the issue would not be posed until 1998 , when Europe 's telecommunications markets are due to be completely opened .
15 Hence , no matter how competitive labour and commodity markets are ( Keynes assumed perfect competition in the former and allowed for a high degree of competition in the latter ) , imbalances between the supply of and demand for labour would not be rectified through spontaneous variations in the real wage rate .
16 They would not be employed in remote regions , but in ‘ theatre ’ warfare , most likely in populated areas such as central Europe or the Middle East .
17 Seeing he would not be served for several hours , the mullah went off back to the caravanserai in which he was staying .
18 The starkest example would be unlimited life goods , where depreciation presumably would not be charged at all .
19 Basically everything we all agree at the Institute the question of improving the lot of the Third World is the responsibility of Third Worlders , and in fact a number of us would add that in very many cases , certainly not in all , it would not be achieved through slow incremental technical change , but would require in some cases very major social structural changes that in some cases erm will only be brought about very major social upheaval erm and there all we can do is add to perhaps the element of increasing consciousness and awareness of the problems , which furthermore is a two way street , I mean when we have this study activities we learn as much from the people who attend the seminars as we tell them .
20 It was customary to fly a flag at half-mast when anyone connected with the May weekend died so , not to be beaten , committee members managed to obtain a telegraph pole , paint and erect it in one weekend so that old Amos would not be cheated of this sign of respect .
21 He told students at Edinburgh University that no changes were planned but allowed himself a get-out clause by stressing that he would not be tied to any position until the Government 's conclusions on the industry had been agreed .
22 The electric response audiometer will be used to detect hearing defects in babies and adults which would not be discovered by other techniques .
23 Although the inquiry was still in its early stages by mid-1991 , there were suggestions that its impact would not be limited to Western Australia .
24 I would not be mistaken over this , ’ replied Merymose shortly .
25 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 ) .
26 In many cases , such projects would not be undertaken without structural fund backing .
27 They rightly feared that they would not be appointed to judicial posts which carried executive responsibilities .
28 On Dec. 16 , Joseph Kamotho , secretary-general of KANU , said that international observers would not be invited to forthcoming elections .
29 EUROTUNNEL shares continued to plunge in London and Paris yesterday as investors took fright at indications that the spiralling costs of the Channel tunnel would not be offset by increased traffic estimates .
30 At the pace the zeks worked , the hole would not be filled by that evening .
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