Example sentences of "[noun sg] would not [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late just once because the car would n't start and Sousan was in a panic . |
| 2 | If if er I five sites have been taken up and employment needs of districts have been addressed and the county in general have been addressed , then er an inward investment would n't provide or offer substantial proven employment benefits . |
| 3 | Although the period of protection for copyright may be extended to a uniform period , the extension of the term would not renew or re-establish copyright in any works where copyright may have expired . |
| 4 | Such a figure would not suggest that a serious attempt was being made by underwriters to deal with a problem that could undermine the stability of the world 's pre-eminent insurance market . |
| 5 | My tongue would n't get round the word or my mouth would n't open or something . |
| 6 | But the Act may be rendered inoperative if , before the lease was granted , the original landlord and original tenant agreed that the Act would not apply and obtained a Court order to that effect . |
| 7 | But El-ahrairah would not listen and he said to Frith , " My people are the strongest in the world , for they breed faster and eat more than any of the other people . |
| 8 | Mr Ajello stressed that the election campaign would not begin until all army and Renamo troops had been gathered in the assembly points and disarmed , and a new national army put together from both sides . |
| 9 | What kind of child would n't whine until he got a pair of $150 trainers that will let him play basketball — and look — like Michael Jordan ? |
| 10 | CIMA suggested that the proposals should be included in Cadbury 's code of best practice , while Coopers & Lybrand thought that a Stock Exchange requirement would not work and added that ‘ it could not see why the OFR could not in principle be a Financial Reporting Standard ’ . |
| 11 | That attitude would not help and it would not be welcome either . |
| 12 | He had been driven to distraction when the five-month-old girl would not settle and struck her , causing extensive bruising , the Court of Session heard . |
| 13 | The engine would not run as well as the distributor advance curve is wrong for this RR camshaft and heavy flywheel combination . |
| 14 | A source at the meeting would not deny that Mr Havel 's candidacy was being actively considered . |
| 15 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 16 | The abolition of the distinction would not occur because historical social psychologists would be uninterested in theoretical issues , but because theory could not be other than historically applicable . |
| 17 | He warned that the reconciliation process would not progress until the North had moved on this issue . |
| 18 | My first marriage was coming to an end , but my husband would not leave until I had a permanent job ( so that I could support his children ) . |
| 19 | I am sure my husband would not mind if your daughter came but it may need to be the ( comfortable ) sofa for a night ! |
| 20 | Adverse meteorological conditions should not be considered the fundamental cause of smogs since high concentrations of pollution would not arise unless the general level or baseline of pollution in the urban atmosphere was relatively high anyway : there is a limit to the peak pollution value that the atmosphere can produce . |
| 21 | Unprepared for the circumstances which he would encounter he was assured by them that the Vietminh would not resist and that Cédile , the French Commissioner in the South , had tight control of his forces . |
| 22 | Later , Patrick discovered that Tracey 's tree would not balance as one rod was not pushed in as far as the others . |
| 23 | I 'd know where I lived if I saw it , but just at the moment I ca n't remember the name of the street it 's in , and the policeman would n't know if I do n't have the address . |
| 24 | I hope that my hon. Friend would not propose that there should be any regional banding to favour London . |
| 25 | Under the commencement theory of jurisdiction propounded in those cases the reviewing court would not reassess whether the elements within the bracket constituting the statutory conditions were met or not . |
| 26 | Bob carried out immediate treatment and reassured the client that the infestation would not recur because the drainage system had been replaced . |
| 27 | Our next reaction was fear that the invasion would not succeed because of the unusually rough weather . |
| 28 | Fabbiano would not mind if he saw the girls beginning to blend in with the guests . |
| 29 | His fingers would bend and there was still some strength in them , but his palm would n't uncurl and the tendons to his thumb had become shortened , giving him problems whenever he tried to pick anything up . |
| 30 | There have been many disasters along the road , Yorkshire puddings you could sole your shoes with , burnt offerings of several varieties , a pat that even my dog would n't eat and last Christmas a chocolate log that disintegrated , the proud little Santa on top sinking without trace in a sea of chocolate gunge . |