Example sentences of "they would not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plastic floats at the top of the net could easily be detected by sonar , but in drift-nets , they are on the surface , where , even if detected , they would not give the dolphin any cause for alarm . |
| 2 | They would not give fairly rejected applicants a charter to cause trouble . |
| 3 | Now that they had made their first move , their first real move , they would not give up until Jack Stone did what he was supposed to do : start talking . |
| 4 | The ones who served on the Organising Committee and the embryo Central Authority , and the remainder who joined them on appointment later in 1947 , were quite clear that they would not give up their statutorily entrenched independence to Citrine and Self . |
| 5 | Protests were also heard from the leaderships in the Baltic republics , Georgia and Armenia , all of them making it clear that they would not co-operate with the army in organizing joint patrols , while the Moldavian Supreme Soviet on Jan. 31 passed a resolution saying that the presidential decree had no legal force on its territory . |
| 6 | The Serbs gave ample warning that they would not tolerate an independent Bosnia . |
| 7 | He would return to visit her , she would fly out to visit him , they would speak on the telephone , they would not miss one another . |
| 8 | But they would not comment on security at the shop . |
| 9 | Both the ECGD and Bank of Scotland said they would not comment until the programme had been shown . |
| 10 | The Dutch League champions said last month they would not renew Robson 's two-year contract which expires at the end of June . |
| 11 | The Australian government announced they would not sign the Antarctic Minerals Convention , designed to control any mineral exploitation there and due to be signed by all nations claiming territory there . |
| 12 | Lithuania , Latvia , Estonia , Moldavia , Georgia and Armenia had already signalled that they would not sign the treaty . |
| 13 | Mrs Grandison had promised her daughter that they would not inflict themselves on her for a meal — realising that Lady Selvedge might well be something of an infliction — and had assumed that from Victoria they would take a taxi to some Soho restaurant or perhaps Simpsons in the Strand . |
| 14 | I must admit however that there are texts I used frequently with girls which I have not chosen to read with a mixed class , feeling that they would not attract the attention of the boys . |
| 15 | They would not decline . |
| 16 | No , they would not serve only a drink , she should recall that . |
| 17 | The engagements most undertake are so short and so intermittent that they would not acquire sufficient service to gain any substantial employment rights . |
| 18 | Either they do not want to run the risk of miscarriage ( about one in 100-200 ) which the procedure entails ; or they would not want a termination even if the baby was found to be disabled . |
| 19 | Although Bouton and his collaborators have failed to establish context-specificity after simple conditioning , they would not want to claim that such an effect can never be seen — there is ample evidence from experiments using rather different training procedures that a change of context can produce a performance deficit . |
| 20 | ‘ I believe a jail should be a penitentiary where inmates are not ill-treated , but where the going is so rough they would not want to come back again , ’ he blasted . |
| 21 | ‘ With any new scheme there 's bound to be teething problems , but if you look at any other town that has introduced this kind of thing they would not want to go back to what they had previously , ’ he said . |
| 22 | But still — within the house , in open view , Meg might have murdered Rubberneck — they would not make a move . |
| 23 | In the late 1980s developers knew that they would not make a decent return on their investment on a pay and play basis . |
| 24 | Secondly it had demonstrated that the clergy were well nigh powerless against royal tax demands : if they would not make a grant , the king could outlaw them and raise the money by fines , or he could simply seize their temporalities . |
| 25 | Of course , they would not make it simple . |
| 26 | The general opinion is that Third World countries have suffered so dreadfully under the debt burden , they would not make the same mistake again . |
| 27 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 28 | It clearly can not be an arbitrary aggregation of versions of modules since it is likely that they would not form a consistent set . |
| 29 | They would not rest now until they had snatched his breath from him . |
| 30 | I have a friend who may be able to provide accommodation , someone they would not associate with you . ’ |