Example sentences of "would not [be] [v-ing] " 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 Graeme Souness had ensured this fourth round replay would not be lacking in spice by making disparaging remarks about Palace 's muscular approach in the 1-1 draw at Anfield two weeks ago .
3 We would not be disagreeing with one another any more .
4 At about 1 a.m. word passed through the encampment that we would not be boarding until the morning .
5 In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers .
6 I drained my mess-tin , got to my feet and went out across the cobbled farmyard , under the arch , and out along the road leading to Brigade H.Q hoping that I would not be requiring the special services offered by the medics .
7 And if that was n't a big enough blow to Travis 's hopes , Rosemary , in the cold light of morning , told Travis that she would not be accepting any more invitations to the flat opposite for supper either .
8 Steve Cauthen rode his 163rd winner of the season on My Lord at Leicester , where ten races attracted a crowd of less than 600 , and announced that he would not be riding again on the flat this season .
9 Northamptonshire TEC says bluntly : ’ It became clear to us in the early summer that we would not be fulfilling our Youth Training guarantee . ’
10 The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired .
11 Dr Davey , a senior lecturer in clinical pharmacology at Dundee University , stressed the centre would not be promoting health service cutbacks .
12 Or indeed , if the consequences of that particular policy decision is such that the erm , the revenue considerations were serious and improvable and in which case , you would not be deriving value for money , and I most certainly would have a comment to make .
13 She would not be seeing much of him .
14 She regretted she would not be seeing Urquhart again for only one reason , or so she told herself .
15 Becky assumed that she would not be seeing the young officer again .
16 In short , comparing individuals in a survey who thought that candidate A would win with those who believed that candidate B would win would not be comparing two groups similar in all possible other respects , unlike the experiment discussed above .
17 Candidate Peter Bergg said his party would not be getting involved in the negative campaigning used by Labour and Conservatives .
18 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 .
19 If the Government were not fearful of the electorate , we would not be debating the Queen 's Speech today , because there would be a general election next Thursday .
20 Manifestly , we have no effective deterrent for hooligan crime , or we would not be debating the issue .
21 ‘ They informed the prison officers that they would not be locking up and that there would be no attacks on staff .
22 Senior Shadow Cabinet sources indicated last night that Mrs Margaret Beckett , spokesman on Treasury affairs , would not be seeking the deputy leadership as part of a ‘ dream ticket ’ with John Smith .
23 Gerry Burton 's announcement in April last year that he would not be seeking re-election as Kidson Impey 's national senior partner caused more than a few raised eyebrows .
24 Last week Dr Feeney , who has just completed a lecture tour of the States , let it be known he would not be seeking the SDLP nomination to contest the Oldpark ward in North Belfast .
25 A report issued by the United States State Department on April 17 , 1990 , made it clear that the USA , which had left UNESCO in 1984 [ see p. 33500 ] , would not be seeking to rejoin in the foreseeable future .
26 Mrs Knelle would not be meeting me until half past ten that night , after the theatre .
27 But he maintained the government would not be providing extra money for SSDs to help establish a provision system for these young people , who are technically still children .
28 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 .
29 At the meeting of senior officials of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) on June 29 in Helsinki , Yugoslav ambassador Vladimir Pavicevic announced that the FRY would not be participating in the summit , scheduled for July 9 , complaining of a " one-sided and arbitrary approach " by the CSCE .
30 The next day was hungover and quiet ; everybody wanted to know what we had got up to , and Girod told us that we would not be accompanying the section in town that afternoon .
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