Example sentences of "[adv] would not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in . |
| 2 | And , and I mean I , I , I 'm making I 'm mak I 'm deliberately making these points because he is viewed as someone who perhaps would n't have been a Sun type but more of a , a Telegraph type or whatever , but when you 've analyzed his , his words and his speeches and everything else in terms of what we 're talking about the tabloids or broadsheets or whatever , you know he would , his language would have fitted in more neatly to the tabloid style than the the Telegraph style . |
| 3 | The fact that growing numbers of students are making the personal decision to go into higher education each year suggests strongly that our system of student support , far from providing a deterrent , is encouraging more people to go into higher education , who perhaps would not have had the confidence to do so or the belief that it is appropriate for them . |
| 4 | Two divers had gone down into the river during the morning , but had found no item of relevance ; and perhaps would not have recognised its relevance had they found it . |
| 5 | She had nothing at all to go on , I thought , except that phone call , and she naturally would n't admit to having listened to that . |
| 6 | When Rebecca Kraemer remarked , as the last murmurs of the slow movement died away , that it was such a pity the conductor was still following the now-discredited Haas edition , she was telling everyone within earshot — which included half the audience — everything that Alison could have wanted them to know but naturally would n't have dreamt of mentioning herself . |
| 7 | By this time Long would not have been a possible leader , and so the third contender of 1911 alone remained : Austen Chamberlain . |
| 8 | Why do n't the B B C , both radio and television , take advertising , and then we not only would not need to pay an extra twenty quid , we probably would n't need to pay the eighty odd pounds that we 're paying already for a colour television licence . |
| 9 | Further to this I suggest that the optional extra subbuteo old trafford have the name written on the box as opposed to a picture as most of their ‘ so called ’ fans have never been there and so would n't recognise it . |
| 10 | There was no advantage in taking them back to the barn where they 'd been born , as when we found them they were too young ever to have been out of it , so would n't have known their way around . |
| 11 | He was n't out on the Safari circuit with Brian Harley so would n't have picked up his bonuses . ’ |
| 12 | it was supposed that , like their predecessors , they would be inactive and so would not waste much of the tester 's time . |
| 13 | This seems a rather arbitrary procedure since most Scottish speakers — including educated speakers — do not have in their phonological systems a contrast between front and back low vowels and so would not differentiate these pairs . |
| 14 | I agree about the idiot bit … but on the whole people who have degrees at least tend to know if they are being completely dense , so would not advertise their problems with ATM 's . |
| 15 | Taylor could risk Platt at Wembley next Wednesday , but the feeling is that doing so would not go down too well with Juventus . |
| 16 | For the record , too , the Press spokesman said the president only had the haircut because he was assured that doing so would not tie up traffic at the airport . |
| 17 | It appears , however , that this immunity enjoyed by the Crown is contrary to the EC law principle of effective protection and so would not apply in a case involving rights in EC law . |
| 18 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 19 | " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) . |
| 20 | Even the thought of doing so would not enter the hearts of most . |
| 21 | Yesterday party leaders voiced their total opposition to violent acts and one SNP MP , Andrew Welsh , claimed he had been misquoted at a recent press conference when he apparently would not rule out sabotage . |
| 22 | She obviously would not have travelled such a huge distance if she did not hold out hope for the relationship , and Charity wanted to respect that . |
| 23 | We 've got somebody who 's got a living assurance policy with us , it 's going to pay out er , on diagnosis of any of those serious illnesses , and then they contract H I V , which if they had originally , we obviously would n't give it to them , but they contract it after the policy is enforced . |
| 24 | ‘ And you obviously would n't put accepting a bribe beyond you partner either , would you ? ’ |
| 25 | Of course the situation is not the same and the techniques you use with a five-minute sequence in the classroom obviously would n't work with a sixty-minute film . |
| 26 | And you 've got your opponent 's ball the other side of the hoop , and the blue ball 's over there somewhere , so you obviously would n't try and run the hoop , you 'll just join back up with your partner 's ball . |
| 27 | She obviously would n't have anyone else at her time of life , in spite of all the men in her stories . |
| 28 | So he obviously would n't have thought the union would have been much of a threat to him seeing as he |
| 29 | She immediately discounted that idea , realising that , had Lubor known , then he obviously would n't have asked her to dine himself . |
| 30 | Cos if you said erm answer in complete sentences they obviously would n't get two marks you see ? |