Example sentences of "would not [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence indicated that , given the nature of continuous speech , a robust system would not make too early a decision , but would allow higher levels to inform the process of identification . |
| 2 | I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters . |
| 3 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 4 | This early in the summer most of the hurricane tracks lay well to the south of the Bahamas , but the islands could still be racked by ship-killing tropical storms and , till I was sure of Wavebreaker 's rigging , I would not go too far from safe harbours . |
| 5 | Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame . |
| 6 | Even now , I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan ; after all , it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground . |
| 7 | Dhanraj began by stating unequivocally that she saw film-making as a tool for socio-political challenge ( she would not go so far as to say change ) and that documentary was best suited to this purpose . |
| 8 | I would not go so far , but this is a good place to start finding out about unfamiliar topics . |
| 9 | Loving does not cancel out such bad manners or excuse them , and she would not think so either … . |
| 10 | This would not matter very much ( for it would always be possible for individual candidates to prove the expectation wrong ) , if it were not for the fact that whole papers in the final examination , or certain questions on papers , are to be ‘ differentiated ’ . |
| 11 | She would not do very well on any test of strength , stamina , or suppleness . |
| 12 | things would not move much further until they were given a determined push , and MT Crosland was to do just that . |
| 13 | But he would not press too vehemently or he would lose the support of the Prince . |
| 14 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 15 | The PE department sent pupils who turned up with inadequate kit , by contrast , other teachers would not send even obviously disruptive pupils for fear of causing their suspension . |
| 16 | ‘ These things would inconvenience speeders as much as humps but would not mean half as much discomfort to passengers and drivers , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The success of the Dutch in the West Indian sugar trade in the 1640s showed that this natural monopoly of the colonies ' trade would not last any longer , so English shipbuilders were gratified to find that the Navigation Act would limit the colonial trade to English ships . |
| 18 | Now all that was left of the farm was a very thin goat which would not last much longer . |
| 19 | I had never tried cutting paeonies , thinking they would not last very long , but Daphne tells me they will survive for a week or more with proper conditioning . |
| 20 | In the middle of the document , he says that if the MacSharry proposals were accepted — he says that they would be — they would not last very long because they would be too expensive . |
| 21 | That this Second World War would not last so long as the First , and even that it might not be a war on such a world-scale , were legitimate presumptions at the time , and Eliot was firmly of the opinion that we should be thinking then and there of the world which would finally emerge . |
| 22 | And he said his company 's 99p set of earrings would not last as long as a Marks and Spencer prawn sandwich . |
| 23 | I am very heavy on brushes and so a beautiful sable brush would not last too long . |
| 24 | He would not miss so plain a possibility , but he could and would refrain from entertaining and proceeding on it until more is known . |
| 25 | Ear lobes , of course , on a whale would pose problems underwater where streamlining is so important and in any event , they would not perform as efficiently in water as they do in air . |
| 26 | Besides , he had chosen a tasty nourishing meal which would not lie too heavily on her achingly empty stomach . |
| 27 | In fact , most Western interest in the slim possibilities of reform in the East tended to focus on the academic and intellectual dissidents in Eastern Europe rather than either disgraced apparatchiks or those stubborn , principled ordinary people without contacts abroad who defied the system in anonymity just because they would not bend any further . |
| 28 | Without adequate groundwork , there was no guarantee that any regime installed at the end of the war would not collapse very quickly . |
| 29 | Plenty of people in Donegal , Cavan and Monaghan would be delighted , as they would not have so far to go to buy drinks , groceries and cigarettes . |
| 30 | The match was moved three sections down to a stretch where carp would not figure quite so much . |