Example sentences of "[det] would [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury .
2 The only way to prevent further developments would be a global totalitarian state that suppressed anything new , and human initiative and ingenuity are such that even this would n't succeed .
3 A lot of people , some , some people well you should of and and er many other people say that this would n't go through , particularly them the going through the tunnel .
4 If this would n't do it , nothing would .
5 This would n't do at all .
6 This would n't last .
7 But this would n't match up to the greatness of the Porfiry-Raskolnikov scenes .
8 This would n't tell the bat how far away the tree was , but it might still be very useful information , nevertheless .
9 ‘ You need a women 's movement in your country , this would n't have happened to me back home , ’ one said , more in surprise than in anger .
10 She looked at the insignificant scorch marks on its cover and said , ‘ This would n't have been necessary if you had n't been so cagey with me .
11 Maybe they should have had foresight and er this would n't have happened at Bilsthorpe .
12 this would n't have happened .
13 That this would n't happen , except it had the consent , sometimes — and I fear Nick Ridley fell into this — it wobbled over except aft — into — after consultation .
14 Even when it was clear that this would n't happen and that it would have to accumulate a special fund , especially for the future cost of ‘ decommissioning ’ the stations , the Board 's accounts showed a relatively small amount being set aside .
15 And 1,244 of the 926,939 people have waited more than two years — despite a Tory pledge this would n't happen .
16 I wished that I could talk well , and could continue this conversation until animosity was dissipated and we could all stand on some common ground , but I knew enough to admit that this would n't happen , and that the longer the talk went on the further apart we should all grow .
17 Her fellow class members made sure this would n't happen again , by giving her , on qualifying , a congratulatory card decorated with a map of that elusive isle .
18 Also , Raskolnikov 's narrative was to have been ‘ A Confession ’ — Dostoevsky 's own title — and this would n't work either .
19 In practice this would n't work because the detectors would need impossibly precise information about the speed of eye movements and the phase lag between the central movement commands and the actual movement of the image .
20 This would n't work for me cos I 've also got , I 've got D R DOS Setup on my path , so whenever I 'd type setup I 'd get D R DOS Setup .
21 This would not preclude close working relations between purchasers and providers working closely to improve quality .
22 This would not preclude the Home Secretary from completing the preparation of the rest of the Bill .
23 Even if there is an immune reaction to Candida antigens in a majority of patients , this would not explain all the symptoms attributed to candidiasis .
24 Even if we were to accept that no legislator should vote for the compromise , this would not explain why we should reject the compromise as an out-come .
25 He does not , however , make the powerful point which had some currency at the time , that even were there universally accepted beliefs which were innate , this would not make them true , and so something we knew .
26 Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century .
27 Even if the 500 tons were subsequently separated from the bulk of the cargo and thereby identified , this would not make them ‘ specific goods . ’
28 In the case of purely generic goods , if the particular goods which the seller had in mind to supply had in fact perished at the time of the contract this would not make it impossible for him to perform the contract .
29 Your German and French are undoubtedly of value , but it must be remembered that this would not make you instantly preferable to , say , a German organisation with a manufacturing interest in Czechoslovakia over a fluent German speaker who is a Czech national or vice versa .
30 ‘ There are some suggestions I made for changes but this would not prevent me signing it .
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