Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] would not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberal Democrat leader said : ‘ They are on roads I would not drive along in a Land-Rover when I was sober . ’ |
| 2 | If I had chosen to keep any of the more sensitive invertebrates I would not consider less than a 30 gallon capacity system . |
| 3 | Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Even if I could identify these contacts I would not because of the obvious dangers . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I had known you were planning to entice me with your feminine wiles I would not have risked bringing you here , cara ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There are pastures which would not be out of place in the Peak District , woods reminiscent of mid Wales , sharp climbs and panoramic views . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Use the soft hyphen in words which would not be hyphenated if they fell in the middle of a line . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Incredulity greets even more esoteric difficulties surrounding the non-appearance of those fans who would not go to watch Scotland wherever they were playing . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Walkers who would not dare stroll half a mile in inner cities thought nothing of walking 190 miles across the fells , dales and moors from St Bee 's in Cumbria to Robin Hood 's Bay in North Yorkshire . |
| 18 | I should like to recommend to those readers who would not normally glance at your Sport supplement on a Monday , to make a point of doing so . |
| 19 | And in some organizations they would not be working for us any more |
| 20 | In fact , if they had not scored those early five goals they would not have won . |
| 21 | If , as a result , a particular chemical substance is concentrated at particular places , it may induce the cells in those places to differentiate in particular ways , just as the presence of galactose in the medium can induce bacterial cells to produce proteins they would not otherwise make . |
| 22 | It is the plaintiff 's case that all those losses were losses they would not have incurred erm had there been no breach of contract . |
| 23 | Floy got up , not furtively , but quite openly and naturally , so that if Balor should open his eyes it would not seem as if Floy had been trying to run away . |
| 24 | Even if a child took a whole bottle full of remedies it would not be harmed ! |
| 25 | Metal combs with sharpened handles were another example of how weapons could be made from objects which would not immediately attract the attention of the police . |
| 26 | The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person . |
| 27 | Another reason for Yugoslavia 's large exports to the Soviet Union is said to be that in this way the Soviet Union can obtain Western products which would not otherwise be so easily available to it . |
| 28 | ‘ I know they need to protect their client 's confidentiality but there are certainly many companies I would not consider working for and that ought to be got out of the way early on . ’ |
| 29 | In my judgment , on the facts as found by the judge , he was entitled to reach the conclusion that consideration existed and in those circumstances I would not disturb that finding . |
| 30 | A seventh final category covered miscellaneous responses which would not fit neatly into either of the six other strategies ; these included ‘ if they sounded incongruous , [ I ] tended to choose an unfavourable response ’ and ‘ it was difficult because I kept forgetting what had gone before so probably ended up guessing ’ . |