Example sentences of "would not [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our white 's qualities would certainly tend very much to preserve him to a good old age , and yet he would not suffice in any number of generations to turn his subjects ' descendants white … |
| 2 | Officials would not comment on this suggestion , even to deny it . |
| 3 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 4 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 5 | According to the Department of the Army in Washington , spare parts would not arrive until some time in 1952 . |
| 6 | It is also felt , however , that many autistic children would not benefit from this process of integration and special schools will continue to play a major role . |
| 7 | Instead they agreed to stay together but would not sleep with each other . |
| 8 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
| 9 | The governor would not speculate on another extension , but Republican senator Jane Swift , a MASSMoCA advocate from North Adams , does not think there is ‘ an unlimited time frame ’ . |
| 10 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 11 | We were told that sunglasses would not fit in any department of the store , and the carousel and mirror required would take up too much space . |
| 12 | One hopes that privatisation would not result in such measures being taken and that the independent monitoring body — the National Rivers Authority — will have enough bite to stop it from happening . |
| 13 | The propagandists go so far as to assume , even to assert , that it would not result in any splitting of the party vote : in other words that votes transferred from Dandy or Deadman or Doughty would go to another of these three running-mates and not elsewhere . |
| 14 | It was also trying to persuade large drug companies to invest in rainforest protection ; investment which would not stem from any sense of altruism on their behalf but because , for the industrialised world , the value of medicines derived from the rainforest runs at over forty billion dollars per year . |
| 15 | Being British , one would not gush about such things ; winemaker , jazz-lover and poet Andre Ostertag , being French , has no such qualms . |
| 16 | The social worker might hold that the client 's general conduct towards him indicated that she would not object to this action ( implied consent ) ; that he carried out the act in good faith as to its consolatory and therapeutic implication ; or ( perhaps less validly ) that the relationship was sufficiently close to allow a gesture of endearment without sexual implication or threatening content . |
| 17 | Putting these together , it would mean that a life-saving service would not have by any means the highest priority if the lives saved were few or were ones of mere existence . |
| 18 | Before the Act the courts would not interfere with any decision by a local authority relating to a child in its care under statutory authority unless the local authority had itself brought the matter before the court , or the facts were such as to entitle the local authority 's decision to be challenged by way of judicial review : A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 , 373 , per Lord Wilberforce . |
| 19 | He had neither the patience nor method to understand properly how they worked and he would not bow to any instruction other than his own perusal of certain manuals and textbooks . |
| 20 | No because our training is such that there is n't the officers just would not come into that bedroom at all because there is a threat in there and I 'm dealing with that threat and unless I specifically call for another officer to come and give me a hand there is no need to come in and in fact if anybody had 've done they 'd have been told to get out because I 've got a problem there and that 's my problem . |
| 21 | As the maximum gradient was 1 in 12 , the Inspecting Officer said he was entitled to insist on the use of cars with track brakes , but as the road flattened out before the bottom , he would not insist on this occasion . |
| 22 | The EPLF would attend the conference to be held before July 1 , but would not participate in any government subsequently formed . |
| 23 | Many parties were expected to take up the offer , although Fernando Belaúnde Terry , a former President and leader of the Popular Action ( AP ) party , stated that unless the holding municipal elections was restored to the current year [ see below ] , the AP would not participate in any talks . |
| 24 | At a news conference on Dec. 8 , Vellayati and Dumas reaffirmed their governments'commitment to recent UN resolutions on the Gulf crisis , although Vellayati added that Iran would not participate in any war against Iraq or another country in the region . |
| 25 | The new Japanese Foreign Minister , Michio Watanabe , had already stated that Japan would not participate in this grouping , and Lee Sang Ock also reportedly pledged South Korea 's opposition to the plan . |
| 26 | All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget . |
| 27 | Alright but if but you would not approve of that kind of language of that kind of er expression of government intent if that 's what it was . |
| 28 | I would not recommend to this side that they have any truck with that particular perspective . |
| 29 | Therefore horns with loose wires where the sound emitted is not continuous and reliable or where the sound is too soft , etc. would not comply with this regulation . |
| 30 | Wishes would not help in this situation . |