Example sentences of "would [not/n't] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Committee of Privileges found this to be a contempt but no action was taken when the General Secretary of the Union gave assurances that sanctions would not be imposed on M.P.s . |
| 32 | It would not be cast by marking the familiar X opposite the name of a single candidate . |
| 33 | In defence of fishing it has been alleged that , were it not for fishermen on our rivers , accidental or deliberate pollution would not be detected so quickly . |
| 34 | Such slow-moving particles would not be detected in conventional particle-physics experiments , which register a particle 's passage by its ionisation of atoms in the detecting medium . |
| 35 | It is possible that these correspond to alkaline reflux , which would not be detected using the gold standard test of intraoesophageal pH monitoring . |
| 36 | An empirical study based on the preferences of the median would still be valid ; and there would not be any need in equilibrium situations to introduce party political dummy variables ( a party whose ideology took it away from the median would not be victorious in an election and its policies would not be observed ) . |
| 37 | Well I 'd like , Dave Girt , Leeds City , I 'd like s some recognition of West Yorkshire 's problems to be evident in er the deliberations , which er at the moment it 's it 's absent , it may it may have been taken into account but it 's absent in the exposition , and I I 'd also like some erm indication that competing development would not be massed on the boundaries of Leeds , that the scales of er the the distribution of the employment land seems to be to be biased towards those districts which which border Leeds . |
| 38 | Mr Good said the four leaders came to the conclusion that they would not be prepared , under any circumstances , to talk with men and women who use violence and kill and destroy . |
| 39 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 40 | He would not be prepared when she asked him why he had sent two men to beat up a pathetic hotel clerk and frighten a vulnerable old woman . |
| 41 | The watchword was always ‘ differentiation ’ which was plain enough up to a point : policy would not be made en bloc , but country by country , depending . |
| 42 | An extra £5 million would be brought forward from next year to offset the extra cost , but it would not be made up next year . |
| 43 | Leopold realised very early on in the first visit that their money would not be made by giving public performances , |
| 44 | He would not be made to read , in fact , or to perform any formal educational exercises ; nor would he be crammed with useless theorizing . |
| 45 | Although reveille had been at 0400 hours , the landing would not be made until first light at 0850 . |
| 46 | Sheikha Grandmother , whom she wanted to visit , was a renowned figure , but such a trip would not be made for one outside the tribe circle . |
| 47 | It was hoped that people would not be made worse off by taking a job ( the unemployment trap ) , nor would they lose money when their gross pay rose ( the poverty trap ) , due to the loss of means-tested benefits in each case . |
| 48 | Ford told leaders of production workers last week hourly-paid staff would not be made compulsorily redundant , but it did not extend the assurance to white-collar employees . |
| 49 | Business deals would not be made where people did not know the other partner to the contract . |
| 50 | The task was to repeat the words " double , double , double " over and over again , and it was used on the assumption that , while vocalising , judgements about words would not be made on the basis of their phonological codes . |
| 51 | Unlawful sexual intercourse has been laid down ( not , I am reliably informed , quite incontrovertibly , but any fresh interpretation would not be made without considerable legal argument ) as any sexual intercourse outside the lawful state of marriage . |
| 52 | The idea is that the bidder must think that the shares in the company are worth more than the bid price , for example , because under the bidder 's control the company will be operated more efficiently , otherwise the bid would not be made . |
| 53 | He knew that escape would not be made by force but , even so , his mind returned again and again to the grains and snippets of stories that had somehow ( how ? ) permeated into the world of Men . |
| 54 | If all words were set as if they were equally important , the main sense of the text would not be made sufficiently evident , and probably the music would lack decisive contours . |
| 55 | Not only does the 24-hour delivery time achieved week in week out put most publishers to shame , but if it were not for their buyers ' notes and regular representative visits , we as a small bookshop all too often ignored by publishers — The Bookseller apart , whose efforts are also appreciated — would not be made aware of new titles and promotions . |
| 56 | In a letter to Gonzalez on May 15 the US Attorney-General William Barr described the inquiry as " harmful to national security " and said that the executive branch would provide no more classified information until specific assurances were received that the documents would not be made public . |
| 57 | Planning and Co-ordination Minister Samuel Doria Medina admitted in late September that final decisions on companies to be sold in the defence area would not be made until the very end of Zamora 's mandate ; presidential and congressional elections were scheduled for June 6 , 1993 . |
| 58 | A final decision about segmentation would not be made until at least some words had been integrated into a higher level . |
| 59 | However , many important datasets would not be made available for secondary use without the Archive undertaking to administer some control on behalf of the data owner . |
| 60 | John Bartell , chairman of the Prison Officers ' Association , has warned that any remand prisoner suffering a condition that requires constant nursing care , or carrying the HIV virus , would not be sent to the Wolds because of the possible cost . |