Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason I would not go and live there for six days , let alone six months , was segregation . |
| 2 | Certainly , they would not go and beg from wealthy relatives ! |
| 3 | Even in the deep trance state , no patient will do or say anything which he would not do or say when fully aware and awake . |
| 4 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She knew she would not cheat and take that option , and she could think of no other . |
| 7 | A spokesman for the British Army of the Rhine would not confirm or deny whether the documents were genuine , saying yesterday : ‘ We do not comment about these matters . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She was in a coma in North Staffordsire hospital for a week and we were told that she would not walk or talk again . |
| 9 | Part of him was coldly aware of the bulge in Doyle 's pocket — the gun which had made sure he would not scream and beg for help . |
| 10 | If a mass of hot and a mass of cold gas were brought together , then it was very highly improbable that they would not mix and give a uniformly warm mixture ; but there was a small probability , and Maxwell imagined a demon who might assist the process , that the warm gas might separate out into a hot and a cold portion , in defiance of the Second Law . |
| 11 | The dishonest accused is doing something authorised when he removes goods from the shelves ; yet surely if the owner knew , he would not allow or authorise the accused to take anything . |
| 12 | I was determined that I would not weep or make the parting harder for him , and I managed to say goodbye taut and dry-eyed . |
| 13 | Even the proposers from the Trust would not come and talk to the public . |
| 14 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 15 | He would not play and let either his teammates or himself down . |
| 16 | It is just as likely that the market , left to itself , would not finance or build nuclear-power stations , not because of the greens but because of their poor rate of return . |
| 17 | BB : I would not agree and deny that the IMF imposes conditions . |
| 18 | Since the DFR was not a document of title , but merely a receipt and notice of shipment it did little to assure the consignee or bona fide purchaser of the goods that the shipper would not resell or reroute the goods in transit . |
| 19 | " Were it not for what they receive out of the tax … they would not knit or spin for so small wages , as they receive for that work , because they would starve by it . " |
| 20 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 21 | The judge was told that the father had given undertakings ( which the judge recited in the course of his judgment ) that , if the court ordered the child to be returned to Canada , he would not attempt to remove him from the care of the mother without an order of the Canadian court ; that he would not support or initiate any contempt of court or criminal proceedings arising from the mother 's removal of the child , and would co-operate in having an early hearing of the proceedings in Ontario . |
| 22 | The heat shields were still intact and the computer assured him that they would not crack or fall off on the journey through the atmosphere . |