Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] would not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I thought if he were that kind of driver I would not get involved . |
| 2 | ‘ At domestic club level I would not consider playing in the No 6 shirt , ’ said Clarke who made his England debut against South African last November . |
| 3 | The Liberal Democrat leader said : ‘ They are on roads I would not drive along in a Land-Rover when I was sober . ’ |
| 4 | If I had chosen to keep any of the more sensitive invertebrates I would not consider less than a 30 gallon capacity system . |
| 5 | On my part I would not presume to disturb their faith . |
| 6 | For my part I would not have been prepared to make an order in the terms proposed unless I knew that the letter was written by or with the direct authority of either the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Director of the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 7 | All in all it 's an experience I would not like to repeat . |
| 8 | I remarked it was an experience I would not care to repeat . |
| 9 | Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Without the programme I would not have prepared a proper business plan or met the contacts essential to business ’ . |
| 13 | He has an appetite for land and castles I would not willingly see in the King himself , but he 's a more dangerous man than the King . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If I had known you were planning to entice me with your feminine wiles I would not have risked bringing you here , cara ! ’ |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Commissariat for War stressed that the new funds should be concentrated on papers produced for distant units which would not otherwise get any press organ . |
| 18 | Izaak Walton was therefore commissioned by Sheldon , the Archbishop of Canterbury , to write a Life of Hooker which would not only replace an inaccurate memoir in Gauden 's edition , but would generally discredit the later books . |
| 19 | She visited Kitty , wishing the old woman really had been a witch and then she could have solved the riddles which would not leave her in peace . |
| 20 | There are pastures which would not be out of place in the Peak District , woods reminiscent of mid Wales , sharp climbs and panoramic views . |
| 21 | Recent arguments about whether the level of state pensions has or has not risen over time relative to average adult per capita income , about whether pensions should or should not be more generous today , and about how criteria for change in the level of pension payments should be set , are all important , but they are essentially distinct from the issue of whether the receipt of state benefits necessarily creates a dependency in the recipient which would not otherwise exist . |
| 22 | Nor do I see why caregivers should be expected to sustain a focus on personal relationships which would not ordinarily exist in the encounters between young people and adults . |
| 23 | Use the soft hyphen in words which would not be hyphenated if they fell in the middle of a line . |
| 24 | The striking head is difficult to parallel stylistically , and the teeth seem to have been cut with an abrasive wheel which would not have been available in the Americas before the Spanish conquest . |
| 25 | This means that if you do an hour 's vigorous exercise instead of sitting in a chair for an hour , you could burn up an extra 100–200 calories which would not have otherwise been used up . |
| 26 | Section 13(4) removes ‘ conspiracy to injure ’ from the field of trade disputes because it involves an action which would not be actionable in tort if done without agreement or combination . |
| 27 | If you were going to invent a brand new religion you would not start with a cross . |
| 28 | The matchwinner threw his boots among the 4,000 fans who would not go home until manager Lennie Lawrence and players returned from the dressing room . |
| 29 | Incredulity greets even more esoteric difficulties surrounding the non-appearance of those fans who would not go to watch Scotland wherever they were playing . |
| 30 | Even if he now commanded her , as he was undressing , to open her eyes she would not see his powerful , barrel-chested body as it came at her . |