Example sentences of "[noun] would not [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Lord Mountbatten lived , there is a good chance that Diana Spencer would not have become Princess of Wales . |
| 2 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 3 | In the sea-urchin , positional signals would not have to travel across more than 20 cells . |
| 4 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 5 | I am not quite sure from the map where Presteigne station was , but it looks as if the PCBCR would not have run into it directly , merely to a junction outside the town . |
| 6 | Thank goodness my vote would not have made any difference . |
| 7 | In Britain , such a vote would not have given the fascists power . |
| 8 | The Fontainebleau abatement would not have come about without the Conservative Government . |
| 9 | The table settings would not have disgraced a banquet : fine Baccarat crystal , gold-crested porcelain and solid silver cutlery set on damask cloths . |
| 10 | A repetition is justified under the principle of relevance because the hearer would not have recovered the extra contextual effects without it . |
| 11 | Even this further devaluation failed to restore confidence as the US treasury secretary announced that the United States would not intervene to support the dollar and intended to remove all controls on capital exports . |
| 12 | Hydrogen , helium and methane would not condense to form cloud particles at the pressures and temperatures through the cloud regions and therefore their relative abundances apply throughout the atmosphere . |
| 13 | However , as a doctor would not be happy to give a diagnosis without knowing all the patient 's symptoms , so the financial adviser would not wish to make recommendations without knowing the full financial background . |
| 14 | With the latter recruitment , Detroit became a city of largely black population ; the automobile industry would not have survived had it had to rely on the sons and daughters of its original workers . |
| 15 | Had there been no polls , the result would not have caused such unanimous amazement . |
| 16 | But Chapman said later : ‘ If we had lost at Wembley , my opinion of Jack and his value to the Arsenal would not have changed in the slightest . |
| 17 | And Amabel could not stop herself from thinking that this dreadful , dirty town must surely be to blame , that if Gemma had been less stubborn about remaining here , in this dark old manor , standing cheek-by-jowl with the brewery and the foundry and those hundreds and hundreds of unwashed , unlettered people who worked in them , then this tragedy would not have occurred . |
| 18 | The report accepted that , without this , the frauds would not have come to light and that there were probably other , undetected , offences . |
| 19 | There was an improvement after the break , but a neutral would not have guessed the home team are within striking distance of the Premier League . |
| 20 | Were he to appear now , in the moonlit room , Chant would not have accused him of negligence , but made proper obeisances and been glad that his inspiration had returned . |
| 21 | Thus , if the historical evidence seems to suggest that meat merged with mate , this can not be a valid interpretation according to this principle , because if it had happened then both meat and mate would subsequently have been eligible for merger with meet : speakers would not have known the difference . |
| 22 | One attempt at fostering would not have sufficed and now , no doubt , more attempts would be made . |
| 23 | Theft would not cover obtaining ownership by deception . |
| 24 | The reader will recall how Keynes would not have disagreed with a single syllable of the above diagnosis . |
| 25 | In an area with such rapid changes in temperature as to erode hard rock into sand , soft shells would not have survived . |
| 26 | Youth Allyah would not have given up quite so easily . |
| 27 | If , for example , we were trying to explain attendance at non-selective schools , the d for the service class would have been 0.281 - 0.763 , or -0.482 ; the magnitude of effect would not have altered but the sign would have been reversed . |
| 28 | Sometimes , for example , a factor which is identified as the causal antecedent of an effect may be so interlinked with numerous other conditions that , while it is true that if that factor had not been present the effect would not have existed either , it is hardly illuminating . |
| 29 | This is not to say that if the situation had been different then it would still be true that if all of either had not existed , then if the other had not , the effect would not have occurred . |
| 30 | Furthermore , she argues that Freud would not have shared Firestone 's confidence about an objective social reality to which mental life must adapt . |