Example sentences of "they would not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two rows of upholstered seats facing each other were like a pair of matching beds , one for each so they would not again need to share except when they wanted to . |
| 2 | John 's aim had been to frighten them so that they would not again attack Derek . |
| 3 | Despite the reforms the UK , the USA and Singapore , which had left UNESCO during the 1980s , said that they would not yet rejoin . |
| 4 | What they would not yet do , and what Thorfinn had not asked them to do , was to fight as a nation , north beside south , no matter what the threat . |
| 5 | Every community will have its secrets , and every individual in it will have views that they would not normally express to others , but do express to the researcher . |
| 6 | The homework assignment involves setting a task that they would not normally do . |
| 7 | They would not normally interfere in local decisions about where new housing would be located , unless such decisions clearly breached Government guidelines . |
| 8 | They would not normally have dreamed of attempting to get him into or out of the house except under cover of darkness ; but now there was no certainty that they would have even one night of grace . |
| 9 | The purpose of the 1944 Regulations , and by inference like legislation , was to protect employees against the consequences of doing things by reason of inadvertence or inattention which they would not normally do . |
| 10 | Jen Longbottom says its a race for the country lovers … they try to take people to a part of the country where they would not normally get to … it 's not a race for softies … |
| 11 | They would not easily forget what they saw . |
| 12 | Having attended a trial or two in my time , and having kept an eye on the changing standard of juries , police , barristers and judges , I am convinced that if hanging were reintroduced , they would not just occasionally hang the wrong person , but do it pretty well every time . |
| 13 | Neither should they encourage Soviet people , in the Baltic states or elsewhere , to take risks that they would not otherwise take . |
| 14 | When this happens , cells do things they would not otherwise have done , presumably because , after amputation , they find themselves in a changed environment . |
| 15 | If , as a result , a particular chemical substance is concentrated at particular places , it may induce the cells in those places to differentiate in particular ways , just as the presence of galactose in the medium can induce bacterial cells to produce proteins they would not otherwise make . |
| 16 | Thus large companies and boards of nationalised industries were provided with enormous financial assistance enabling ( or rather persuading ) them to base their reorganisation on designated development areas which in many cases they would not otherwise have chosen , for reasons of both private and public benefit when judged over the longer run [ Knight , 1974 ; Moore and Rhodes , 1973 ] . |
| 17 | If a person is prevented from doing what they would otherwise intend or desire to do , or if they are coerced into doing what they would not otherwise want or desire to do , they are not acting autonomously . |
| 18 | Modern societies use money as a means of cajoling people to do work they would not otherwise want to do . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most basic function of organized education is to give students access to something which they would not otherwise have . |
| 20 | They were not tricked into doing what they would not otherwise have done , they were tricked into doing what they wanted to do in that place and before witnesses and devices who can now speak of what happened . |
| 21 | The fact that the directors ' discretion is not reviewable , therefore , means in short that the section is likely to have little causative impact : it does not compel the directors to do anything they would not otherwise have been inclined to do . |
| 22 | It is a system by which people can be governed , that is , made to do things they would not otherwise do , and made to refrain from doing things they otherwise might do . |
| 23 | The notion of giving money or quasi money to a family to spend in a way they would not otherwise choose to do is very far from the assumptions of a free market in which people spend their own money on something they want . |
| 24 | The next three classes beneath the class — the Sahn , the and the — also may choose kadiliks or the next higher rank of medrese , but in these cases the option of choosing a kadilik is expressed in variants of the following phrase : " if [ the muderrises ] become poor and choose office [ as kadi ] … " , the implication of which is that they would not otherwise do so . |
| 25 | The reason they would not otherwise do so becomes apparent from the biographical sources , from which it is clear that though it was possible to obtain mevleviyets from these medreses , men who did so tended not to rise much higher but to spend the rest of their lives in relatively low-ranking mevleviyets . |
| 26 | If British Rail builds a railway line in South Wales by employing construction workers who would otherwise have been unemployed , the cost includes the wages of construction workers , but these do not represent a social cost if they would not otherwise have produced any goods . |
| 27 | Two-thirds of the new jobs created in the 1980s went to women , but more than half of them were part-time , and the Government 's Restart pushed many unemployed people into less productive , poorly paid , low-skilled jobs they would not otherwise have taken . |
| 28 | In this case they would not both get off , but would most probably get less than 10 years each , possibly as little as five . |
| 29 | It is the resulting harm ( death ) which still dominates , as is evident from the fact that many forms of conduct fall within the law of manslaughter if death happens to result , whereas they would not even amount to a serious offence if a consequence less than death had ensued . |
| 30 | I believe , coming from so near the surface of consciousness they would not even be interesting to science : our reading came so much into them . |