Example sentences of "would [not/n't] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one Pisticci peasant puts it : ‘ if it were not for my family , I 'd not be wearing myself out ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's very kind of you , but I 'd not be allowed one . ’ |
| 3 | Northamptonshire TEC says bluntly : ’ It became clear to us in the early summer that we would not be fulfilling our Youth Training guarantee . ’ |
| 4 | If it chose to put it all outside the town centre , what then subsequently occurred in the town centre under I twelve would not be damaging its allocation against the structure plan policy outside the town centre . |
| 5 | Mrs Knelle would not be meeting me until half past ten that night , after the theatre . |
| 6 | Yesterday Silas had assured her he would not be taking her to town — yet here she was , smartly dressed and ready to accompany them . |
| 7 | If he expected any other price level he would not be acting rationally since he would not be forming his expectation of the price level in line with the process determining it ; that is , the aggregate supply and demand process depicted in figure 4.4 . |
| 8 | Within weeks she had sacked Kathy Pitkin , who played teenage bride Fizz and told six others she would not be renewing their contracts . |
| 9 | She would not be denied her wishes . |
| 10 | Smith 's coach , Mike Holmes , explained in last Thursday 's Echo that because he had not competed since mid March , the high jumper would not be using his long run-up until the Belfast meeting . |
| 11 | ‘ Honestly God , if you had seen my performance reports for the last forty years you would not be offering me this position . ’ |
| 12 | We had with us a Danakil from the Awash Station , not only as guide but also as hostage , and would not be releasing him until he found a replacement from the next tribe . |
| 13 | The Labour team , he added , would not be relaxing their efforts : ‘ Everything is still to play for but we are confident that we can win . ’ |
| 14 | The Labour team , he added , would not be relaxing their efforts : ‘ Everything is still to play for but we are confident that we can win . ’ |
| 15 | They respected him , too , of course , as one of the greatest players since the war , and knew that , as a top-flight batsman and a bowler who could be both slow and fast-medium , he would not be asking them to do things he had not already achieved himself . |
| 16 | Molesworth claimed that the House would not be committing itself to the larger scheme , nevertheless it was not in a mood for what George Bankes called an ‘ extensive scheme to enable Cabinet Ministers to entertain foreign visitors and their friends ’ . |
| 17 | I drove twenty yards ahead so that the bus would not be blocking my way when it stopped at the bus stop , then I stopped and looked back . |
| 18 | As to Mrs. Leapor 's dramatic writings , it would not be overrating their merit to say that much worse plays have succeeded on the stage : yet it is probable her Unhappy Father would not have pleased in the acting . |
| 19 | As we said , we would n't be on the picket line now , and indeed the Union would not be backing us in what is proving to be a long and fairly expensive dispute , if we did n't believe that we had a very good chance of getting our jobs back and re-establishing the Union in Pergammon Press . |
| 20 | ‘ Jorge can take me , ’ Maggie said , feeling an incredible little burst of disappointment that Felipe would not be driving her . |
| 21 | Not only did I not want surgery or drugs , but I hoped that in refusing them I would not be offending my surgeon ! |
| 22 | French Open champion Sergi Bruguera has confirmed that he would not be making his first Wimbledon appearance since 1990 because he is ‘ exhausted . ’ |
| 23 | ( But , thought Alice , he would not be abandoning it for long ! ) |
| 24 | He said his self-proclaimed republic would send a team to peace talks in New York but he would not be heading it . |
| 25 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |
| 26 | We would n't be getting it . |
| 27 | ‘ Obviously , it appeals to you , though , or you would n't be seeing her . |
| 28 | And when I found out my Friday meeting was being moved forward and I would n't be seeing you after all I asked your Miss Philimore to cancel it . |
| 29 | They would n't be expecting her to go further into the lion 's den . |
| 30 | I knew you would n't be expecting me , but I really — I needed to see you , too , ’ he confessed , ‘ just to be sure I was still alive . ’ |