Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is probably to run him on a left hand track where such antics would not cost him so much ground . |
| 2 | Although Nelson is probably right to say that the DUP had lost its role ‘ as the articulator of poor Protestants ’ social grievances ' by the end of the 1970s , this would not cost it votes until there was an alternative . |
| 3 | She would not open it , even for cleaning . |
| 4 | Now was the time to tell him who and what she was , but she could not spoil this magic moment ; it was McAllister he loved , not Sally-Anne Tunstall , and she would not ruin her perfect afternoon . |
| 5 | But yesterday she vowed that the tragedy would not ruin their lives . |
| 6 | But yesterday she vowed that the tragedy would not ruin their lives . |
| 7 | The father appealed by notice of appeal dated 30 March 1992 on the grounds ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in finding that the removal of the child by the mother was not wrongful within the meaning of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction by finding that the removal was neither in breach of the rights of custody of the father nor of the mother nor of the Ontario court ; and ( 2 ) that the judge erred in finding that the mother had established that there was a grave risk that the return of the child to Ontario would place him in an intolerable situation and further that the judge would not exercise his discretion to order the return of the child to Ontario . |
| 8 | The Fifth was choking in its own certainties , and though he took no pleasure in the thought of losing his life , he would not mourn his removal from this hard and unpoetic Dominion . |
| 9 | Lyons , in fact , would support this view and , whatever other characteristics he might attribute to literacy , or to specific language-systems such as English , he would not associate them with lack of ambiguity , as do Hildyard , Olson and Greenfield . |
| 10 | If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object . |
| 11 | The decision was reportedly taken after it became clear that the French Disneyland would not make its expected profit this year . |
| 12 | He does not , however , make the powerful point which had some currency at the time , that even were there universally accepted beliefs which were innate , this would not make them true , and so something we knew . |
| 13 | Good deeds were good in themselves , and the ears and eyes and approval of the world would not make them better — quite the reverse . |
| 14 | Even if the 500 tons were subsequently separated from the bulk of the cargo and thereby identified , this would not make them ‘ specific goods . ’ |
| 15 | Even retrofitting of flue gas desulphurisation at the big coal stations would not make them more expensive than some gas burn . |
| 16 | ALTHOUGH John Kirwan might be in a honeymoon mood at the moment after the whole All Black team turned up at his recent marriage in Italy ( see pages 54 and 65 ) , his good humour is unlikely to last too long if the NZRFU meeting on December 12 and 13th decides to take action against him over his public announcement that he would not make himself available for the All Blacks if Auckland coach John Hart is not Grizz Wyllie 's successor as national coach . |
| 17 | His personal religious feelings would not make him doubt Ramsey , for he owed something in his private religion to that tradition of the Oxford Movement which Ramsey represented . |
| 18 | Keir Hardie joined Labour because the Liberals would not make him , a miner , a parliamentary candidate . |
| 19 | He hoped she had made up her mind to talk and would not make him lose valuable time persuading her . |
| 20 | negligently allowing the goods to be stolen ) would not make him liable for conversion though if he were a bailee of the goods he might be liable in detinue in such circumstances . |
| 21 | I decided that , whatever else happened , tonight I would not make him angry . |
| 22 | Even if a band that I liked did this , I 'm sure that it would not make me gay ( And even if the power of rock introduced you to the delights of homosexuality , who cares , eh ? |
| 23 | Personally , I reject the Oxford claim that English Literature begins with Anglo-Saxon , and would not make it a required subject . |
| 24 | One suspects he would not make it were Islam a majority religion in Britain . |
| 25 | Although he was wary of commenting on a specific meeting , Mr Hyde said the company ‘ would not make it a matter of policy to say we have been in contact or received authorisation , if that had n't been the case ’ . |
| 26 | The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top . |
| 27 | There may be practical difficulties in enforcing such a law but that would not make it invalid . |
| 28 | Of course , they would not make it simple . |
| 29 | In the case of purely generic goods , if the particular goods which the seller had in mind to supply had in fact perished at the time of the contract this would not make it impossible for him to perform the contract . |
| 30 | ‘ I am worried that she would not make it if she went down like that again . |