Example sentences of "would [not/n't] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these circumstances the child would not be rewarded for completing the task . |
| 2 | It simply would not be tolerated for the old style to continue at the expense of progress . ’ |
| 3 | Sheikha Grandmother , whom she wanted to visit , was a renowned figure , but such a trip would not be made for one outside the tribe circle . |
| 4 | Seeing he would not be served for several hours , the mullah went off back to the caravanserai in which he was staying . |
| 5 | CPRE 's evidence shows that during the committee stages of the 1986 Agriculture Act , Mr Gummer said that conservation advice would not be charged for . |
| 6 | Five of the banks which had been expected to take part in the scheme , however , had on Dec. 20 , 1989 , announced that they would not be participating for commercial reasons , although the following day , John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education and Science , had stated that the objectives , principles and framework of the scheme remained unchanged . |
| 7 | In the case of Turner , a convicted defendant initiated a prosecution against his accomplice , who had obtained a prior undertaking from the Director that he would not be prosecuted for his part in the offence . |
| 8 | The break-in would not be discovered for months . |
| 9 | Such courses may be of interest to you as a returner but they are not the same as re-entry programmes , and would not be recognised for the same purpose if you ever had to provide evidence of an updating course to your National Board . |
| 10 | He told the judge that he would not be instructed for the retrial . |
| 11 | Apparently , she did not mind him being a mop head when occupying other Government positions , but felt it would not be fitting for the role of Chancellor . |
| 12 | I conceive that the promise would not be binding for want of a previous request by the testator . |
| 13 | He would not be moving for much longer . |
| 14 | Some members of the Committee moved that the school stay open , on the grounds that short-term financial gain would not be compensated for by the long-term loss to the community . |
| 15 | The day dawned misty and drizzly so we went to have a look , confident heroics would not be called for . |
| 16 | He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision . |
| 17 | ‘ We had informed the ACU of our plans and were told there was no objection ’ , Ernie told me , ‘ but then we received news that Mark would not be accepted for the Superteen because he did n't have a restricted licence and he had also scored points in the previous year 's British championship . |
| 18 | Klein would not be bought for money or favours . |
| 19 | To begin with , however , the moment of opportunity that was presented in Vietnam by France 's defeat in 1940 was taken by the Japanese ; and although Ho might conceivably and eventually have been right in his optimistic assertion that ‘ if the entire people were united and single minded they would certainly be able to smash the picked French and Japanese armies ’ , the vicissitudes of war and politics would ensure that , for a while at least , they would not be required for such a formidable task . |
| 20 | It was still early ; the tourist train from Cuzco would not be arriving for another two hours . |
| 21 | There was no noise , no radio , no light , but he could not imagine she would not be waiting for him . |
| 22 | He was informed that Colonel and Mrs Moore had left with Miss D'Arcy on some unexpected business and would not be returning for at least a fortnight : and even that was by no means certain . |
| 23 | The commentaries would not be designed for the general reader but for the specialist , who , looking up Zapp , would find that the book , article or thesis he had been planning had already been anticipated and , more likely than not , invalidated . |
| 24 | In the long run it does not work ; if it did , the parents would not be asking for advice . |
| 25 | The government of Montenegro said on Dec. 23 that it would not be asking for EC recognition . |
| 26 | And in some organizations they would not be working for us any more |
| 27 | He never writes a memo saying you know we are supporting or attacking this government as about this election campaign , never , but journalists know what his view is and they write in a code with that view and if they did n't they would quickly find out where they should be and it would not be working for one of those newspapers and the thing that 's quite perverse about it is the . |
| 28 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 29 | Any batch failing the checks would not be forwarded for update until corrected . |
| 30 | On March 26 the state prosecutor announced that charges of treason against Honecker would not be brought for lack of evidence but that he would face lesser charges of corruption and abuse of power . |