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

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1 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 . ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The electric response audiometer will be used to detect hearing defects in babies and adults which would not be discovered by other techniques .
9 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 .
10 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 ) .
11 In many cases , such projects would not be undertaken without structural fund backing .
12 They rightly feared that they would not be appointed to judicial posts which carried executive responsibilities .
13 On Dec. 16 , Joseph Kamotho , secretary-general of KANU , said that international observers would not be invited to forthcoming elections .
14 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 .
15 The final vision is of a world in which the concept of illness would remain but would not be fixed in firm categories assumed to be universal .
16 It was difficult , in any of this , to discover what a future socialist or communist society would be like ; if there was consensus about anything it was that it would not be based upon public ownership , would not be dominated by a single ruling party , would not supersede capitalism and might not even offer an alternative to it .
17 It would not be based upon theoretical ideas which were held to have generality beyond a socio-historical context .
18 And with great generosity , he prayed that Clare would not be led into mortal sin — if indeed she had not already fallen .
19 In his meeting with Anand on Sept. 22 , Chinese Premier Li Peng said that relations between the two countries were very good and had not and would not be affected by domestic changes in the two countries .
20 Prime Minister Jim Bolger stated that the recommendation would not be accepted in full .
21 Secondly , arts teachers ' views would not be represented at educational management level .
22 In early September he had won a promise from India that anti-Bhutan activity would not be allowed by ethnic Nepalese who had fled Bhutan to West Bengal and Assam .
23 Initially Ramos expressed no opposition to the ruling but , on Aug. 17 , he altered his position following pressure from central bank governor Cuisia who had said that individuals would not be let off past breaches ; Justice Secretary Franklin Drilon , who had initially merely commented that the judge had made an erroneous decision , since the new regulations were not even in effect at the time of the ruling , later instructed government lawyers to investigate the possibility of an appeal against the dismissal of charges .
24 Natfhe 's executive last night recommended rejection of the offer because it was conditional on lecturers accepting changes to their working hours and because the £700 lump sum would not be included in basic pay calculations next year .
25 It is also significant that the DoE study did not consider the costs of several ‘ uncostable ’ factors such as the increased corrosion and organic contamination which denitrification can cause but which would not be incurred by preventative methods .
26 In his opening address , EPRDF leader and acting head of state Meles Zenawi explained that " peaceful and democratic forces " which had failed to gain accreditation would not be excluded from future debate .
27 In our Part-number example , its properties would not be known by other tools that used Part-numbers , except in the unlikely case that such tools made the effort to understand Guide 's context-tables .
28 She found the marching pace tiring and her clothes would not be recommended for military training , but she rarely complained .
29 Little wonder Souness took great pleasure in announcing that Grobbelaar would not be released for international duty with Zimbabwe .
30 Still , Adolf Galland would not be thrown by minor details such as that .
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