Example sentences of "not [pron] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone would realise instantly that the best way to reduce tension in the Middle East might be to insulate American lofts . |
| 2 | She understands what she has to do , that 's true , ’ answered the second , ‘ and not everyone would want to do her job , not even for all that money ! ’ |
| 3 | Not everyone would feel that these were messages for them ; many people always turn to the cartoon page first of all , and some do n't read much more than that ; God gives Jeremiah several cartoons in the course of this passage ; did you notice in verse 25 the dig about wearing your feet out — because the people had already worn their shoes out ! |
| 4 | Not everyone would condemn every checkerboard solution . |
| 5 | There are one or two awards that not everyone would bust a gut to win , but IBM Corp 's Personal Software Products unit is proud to announce that the OS/2 2.0 operating system has been awarded the Computer Language Jolt Cola Award for Product Excellence : we 're advised that Jolt is the cola that has five times the sugar and twice the caffeine of regular cola — and the connection with computers ? |
| 6 | She was much prettier than Jenny , although he supposed not everyone would agree with him , Jenny 's looks being of a more obvious kind . |
| 7 | It was recognised of course that not everyone would have such a carer , but that this restriction would provide a more homogeneous sample than would otherwise be the case . |
| 8 | Had you not I would have lent you some instructional literature — onanism is , you see , terribly important , a most efficacious ritual . |
| 9 | ‘ My house has been broken into , my sister and I could have been in danger and all you 're concerned about is whether or not I would have shot the bastard who did it . ’ |
| 10 | If not I 'd go in there and say please could |
| 11 | With someone who 's not I 'd try and get them to wait for a couple of days and then if they would n't I 'd go through the and get them it today . |
| 12 | and th the so called democratic , you know , choice of all these poli , all these MP 's and what not which would comprise parliament and government and head of the Tory party at the time you know i it really their voices on the , on the the cabinet you know , they were , they were just destroyed ! |
| 13 | This is the least likely since , a fox excepted , muzzled or not she would deter most predators . |
| 14 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 15 | When the time was ripe , if it was ever ripe , she would go and if not she would stay . |
| 16 | MRS THATCHER 'S departure for America last Wednesday followed speculation as to whether or not she would go . |
| 17 | But more often than not she would climb the stairs — however many flights there might be — as she felt panic rising within her as soon as she tried to step into the lift . |
| 18 | If the ferry boat was there it would be quicker , if not she would have lost precious time by not taking the direct path to the bridge . |
| 19 | IF you have ever wondered whether or not you would enjoy a canal holiday , a Cheshire boat operator is offering the opportunity to find out on short cut-price ‘ taster ’ breaks . |
| 20 | Were I to tell ye what I thinks o' that , mate , like as not you 'd 'ave me guts for garters ! thought Forest . |
| 21 | If marriages were made on a bed of gold , here not one would fail , and in this case noblesse oblige . |
| 22 | Then of course not one would enter the gangway to go into the steamer , so they caught one and forced it through , then all the rest followed quite eagerly of their own accord . |
| 23 | Er and if not we would move to discuss Harrogate . |
| 24 | ‘ Really , it was a game in which I made the rules : always being the one to decide whether or not we 'd make love when we met . |
| 25 | ‘ We negotiate pets with the residents , because obviously not everybody would want them . |
| 26 | They may provide for the position of the institutional equity investors in respect of warranties on a flotation , in particular , whether or not they would give warranties in the offer for sale agreement to the merchant bank leading the flotation . |
| 27 | If not they would have been abandoned and merely allowed to fall down . |
| 28 | They must possess some hidden function to compensate their obvious disadvantages , because if they did not they would have been eliminated by negative selection . |
| 29 | If not they would have to stay on another night . |
| 30 | Thus , for example , when asked whether or not they would describe their own redundancy as genuinely voluntary , the oldest group ( those over 65 when interviewed ) were much more likely than the rest to say ‘ yes ’ ( 83 per cent compared with 46 per cent of those aged 55–59 and 65 per cent of those aged 60–64 ) . |