Example sentences of "would not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether this is a real practical difficulty depends on whether the desire to save face would not anyway have this effect of encouraging the same decision to be made again , even if there were no risk of a damages award . |
| 2 | I would not particularly recommend this course but more girls should seriously consider this subject . |
| 3 | His mother would never get round to reading it and he hoped fervently that his father would not either . |
| 4 | I do not see it like that , and I am sure that the nation as a whole would not either . |
| 5 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , after his defeat , Mr Major , whose strengths as a Prime Minister would not best qualify him as a good leader of the opposition , would do the decent thing and step down , like Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1965 , agreeing to serve under whomever the party chose to succeed him . |
| 7 | The Kenyan government could not believe the duty-free photographic chain would not somehow leak out into the economy . |
| 8 | I knew that informed public opinion might be shifting , but also that the school to which I hoped to return as head would not yet be very different from the one which I had left as a history teacher . |
| 9 | Had the company elected to spread the initial surplus forward , the shortfall would have been sheltered , because the majority of the surplus would not yet have been released to the p&l account by the time of the next valuation . |
| 10 | The change in status would have allowed Switzerland to participate fully in broader Framework programmes , although it would not yet have been eligible for direct financial support . |
| 11 | He spoke noncommittally , and Lydia understood that there were things of which Beuno would not yet speak to her . |
| 12 | Despite the reforms the UK , the USA and Singapore , which had left UNESCO during the 1980s , said that they would not yet rejoin . |
| 13 | This was perhaps a conservative precaution on Franco 's part , and a reminder that , when it came to the nation 's purse-strings , there would not yet be any hint of relaxation or liberalism . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The special November Conference which had been proposed was abandoned , again in the hope that the ILP would not yet have to commit itself . |
| 16 | Moreover , it denotes a certain lack of confidence in the criminal process to believe that a totally false allegation would not sooner or later be revealed as such . |
| 17 | I would not well |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The alleged inadequacies would not just be described ; they would be counted , as well . |
| 20 | Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods . |
| 21 | After Lamb had blown the whistle on the Pakistanis Dexter seemed to want to wash his hands of anything Lamb was doing — suggesting that the Northants captain 's forthright comments would not just end with a fine and a suspension from his County bosses . |
| 22 | The paper would challenge authority , never ‘ preach ’ to its readers , and would not just publish political tracts of the left . |
| 23 | And it would not just be decent in its coverage — it would look decent . |
| 24 | More specifically , the model of responsible party government carried within itself the view that the electorate would not just be informed about politics but would vote for the party which has a programme of policies in accord with their own view as to how things should be . |
| 25 | But it was crucial that it would not just be a good deal financially for my clients [ who by this time also included Colin Dann , the author ] and the BBC , but also that all parties should feel relatively comfortable with it . |
| 26 | She would not just sit there and let him do this to her ! |
| 27 | The letter to a friend left behind after a move could contain thoughts about the way the family have been treated by immigration officials ; the really interesting letter would not just recount memories , but also hint at the dreams and fears , the expectations and terrors of what lies ahead . |
| 28 | But to stay , to lie in his arms and each time know that he was dreaming of another woman , would not just break her heart but shatter it . |
| 29 | Jim Murphy , NUS Scotland president , said that a campaign encouraging students to demonstrate would not just include placard-waving but discos and possibly even classes in the history of demonstrations . |
| 30 | This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action . |