Example sentences of "[pron] would not be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew that I would not be allowed to box but I proved a point by showing up , ’ he said . |
| 2 | I silently vowed I would not be returning to Coldstream . |
| 3 | We would bring all that together in a strategic authority , which would not be dictated to by Whitehall and the mandarins down here . |
| 4 | They have often received inadequate parenting themselves , had negative experiences of the legal process and have been judged by standards which would not be applied to most ordinary people ( and which many ‘ ordinary parents ’ would fail to meet ) . |
| 5 | She lived in Half Moon Crescent ( he had checked the number and the street before he 'd started out on his trek , so that even if Slater had lost or forgotten her number , she would not be lost to him ) . |
| 6 | She would not be reduced to skulking in the back room of her own shop . |
| 7 | Her younger brother was sent by Teresa later in the day to say she would not be returning to a house where a dangerous lunatic lived and no one could expect her to — she would rather forfeit that week 's wages than wait long enough to give notice . |
| 8 | However , you would not be limited to advising on existing law . |
| 9 | Then you would not be talking to me like a business client with whom you have experienced an unfortunate misunderstanding . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I told him you would not be returning to Milano for a few days . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What I should have done , ’ he said smoothly , as he pressed the glass into her hand , ‘ was tell you that you would not be returning to Milano at all . ’ |
| 12 | They would not be tied to the goods of donor countries , and all funds from national sources should be in the form of grants ( already the case for a majority of donors ) . |
| 13 | They surrendered at Rome airport on Aug. 30 after receiving assurances they would not be deported to Ethiopia , where they claimed that they had suffered political persecution . |
| 14 | Bikenibeu Paeniu , the Prime Minister of Tuvalu , said that the Forum countries had , in accepting the inclusion of Taiwan , decided that they would not be dictated to by outsiders . |
| 15 | A government decree issued on Oct. 8 offered drug traffickers a guarantee that they would not be extradited to the United States to face drug charges if they surrendered to the authorities . |
| 16 | A communiqué passed to the government on Nov. 22 by a group of prominent citizens known as " the notables " , believed to mediating between the government and the Medellín drug cartel , contained an offer from the cartel that between 200 and 300 of their members would surrender to stand trial if they received official assurances that they would not be extradited to another country . |
| 17 | They rightly feared that they would not be appointed to judicial posts which carried executive responsibilities . |
| 18 | ‘ This place we 're going to , it 's in Mariánské Láznë ? ’ she thought she should enquire , since it seemed they would not be walking to this lunchtime venue . |
| 19 | We got a call from them recently and , apparently they 've managed to come up with a program that WILL allow for a hundred Lemmings on-screen at once — although they would not be animated to any degree whatsoever . |
| 20 | He told students at Edinburgh University that no changes were planned but allowed himself a get-out clause by stressing that he would not be tied to any position until the Government 's conclusions on the industry had been agreed . |
| 21 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 22 | He would not be going to the funeral either . |
| 23 | Although the defendant programmer would not be allowed simply to copy the programs in question , he would not be required to " wipe clean the slate of his memory " because to do so would unduly restrict his use of his own training , skill and experience . |
| 24 | On Sept. 22 he resurfaced in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este , declaring that he would not be returning to France to face charges because he had reason to fear an assassination attempt . |
| 25 | Heysel occurred at a ground so dilapidated it would not be cleared to stage Fourth Division matches in this country . |
| 26 | ‘ It would not be applied to someone who uses the house as their family home but works away from home for most of the week , ’ said Mr Soley . |
| 27 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( CI No 1,697 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 28 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( UX No 39 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |