Example sentences of "would not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd not be in the way of the children . |
| 2 | Only for the whole lot of you we 'd not be near that far on , ’ Moran was able to praise . |
| 3 | They had advised her to have the baby adopted , told her she 'd not be able to earn a living for them both , but she 'd been willful and gone her own way . |
| 4 | He 'd not be believed , and would just hurt the lad more . |
| 5 | I 'd say I 'd not be caught dead in them they were |
| 6 | ‘ It 's very kind of you , but I 'd not be allowed one . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps she 'd not be required to answer . |
| 8 | Sir , If you please to send me a scarlet Cardinal [ a short red cloak ] , and let it be full yard long , and rather longer than a yard long , and let it be full , for it be for a large Woman , they tell me I may have a long one , and a handsome one , for 11s but I shou 'd not be willing to give more than 12s , but if you have any as long as that , either duffil or cloth , if it is cheaper , I shou 'd like it as well as , for I am not to give but 12s for it . |
| 9 | ‘ No , no , I 'd not be able to . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death . |
| 11 | If you say that a freely-floating body — and the weights would help a bit there , because they 'd keep it under water and out of any wind — moves down on the ebb at an average of a bit under two knots , you 'd not be far wrong . |
| 12 | That you were going to write , that you would be good at it , you 'd not be one of the ones who never made it , oh you had all the fine phrases , all the dreams . |
| 13 | I told her you 'd not be best pleased to see her , but she insisted on staying , as I said before . ’ |
| 14 | You 'd not be the first young widow to do such a thing , ’ |
| 15 | As one Pisticci peasant puts it : ‘ if it were not for my family , I 'd not be wearing myself out ’ . |
| 16 | The ob the obvious answer to that would be we 'd not be in a position to make the proper recommendation in favour of I I suspect . |
| 17 | If you have not paid tax , then you would not be able to sign a Certificate of Deduction of Tax and ACET would not be able to reclaim tax on the covenant . |
| 18 | If you have not paid tax , then you would not be able to sign a Certificate of Deduction of Tax and ACET would not be able to reclaim tax on the covenant . |
| 19 | This can cause problems because if you do not pay tax then you will not be able to sign the Certificate on form R190(SD) and ACET would not be able to re-claim basic rate on the payment . |
| 20 | Without their commitment we would not be able to provide such an extensive service . |
| 21 | It is the churches that provide our volunteers ; without their support we would not be able to provide a service at all . |
| 22 | He was never to say hello to you , and he once said that he would not be interested in his child ‘ until he can go out shooting with me ’ . |
| 23 | Similar remarks were made by Senator Mary Robinson , who also challenged the hierarchy 's intent in their statement to the New Ireland Forum that the civil rights of Northerners would not be infringed by any pressure from the Roman catholic church in an eventual united Ireland . |
| 24 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 25 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 26 | And without language we would not be able to conceive it either . |
| 27 | Another senior personnel manager said : ‘ It would not be a moral judgment , but we have to consider the practicalities of appointing someone who could be off work for long periods . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It would not be fair on those people who have already bought the correct equipment . |
| 29 | As for sociable hours , I would not be in this trade if I expected to work nine to five , Monday to Friday . |
| 30 | In sinking air even this would not be enough to allow for much choice and , of course , it assumes that the descent will be made over open countryside and not amongst hills or moorland . |