Example sentences of "they would [not/n't] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst working on the drama series A Little Princess with a dozen twelve-to fourteen-year-old girls , I noted that although they were all sweet kids most of them would n't be seen dead without their eyeliner . |
| 2 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |
| 3 | On the 21 June , 1955 , the Caribbean Commission informed Williams that his contract with them would not be renewed . |
| 4 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 5 | There is one exception to this rule of not searching the unregistered Land Charges Register in the case of registered land : prospective mortgagors who are buying a registered property have , as yet ( until they complete their purchase ) , no title to the registered land ; and therefore a bankruptcy or a receiving order made against them would not be disclosed by a title search . |
| 6 | They took their drinks out on to the verandah where they would not be disturbed . |
| 7 | In Teheran 's poor southern suburbs , which supposedly form the bedrock of support for the Islamic revolution , many young people said they would not be voting . |
| 8 | In effect , the policy proposed that D category villages should be allowed to wither away ; as houses became uninhabitable they would not be replaced . |
| 9 | Five of the banks which had been expected to take part in the scheme , however , had on Dec. 20 , 1989 , announced that they would not be participating for commercial reasons , although the following day , John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education and Science , had stated that the objectives , principles and framework of the scheme remained unchanged . |
| 10 | They all said they would not be involved again , though they would support it and wished the new committee luck . |
| 11 | Such missions could offer " transportation , telecommunications , repairs and maintenance " ; they would not be involved , however , in the " use or threat of force " . |
| 12 | Couns Williams and Dixon confirmed that their view of Mr Major 's achievements and thoughts for the future differed from his , that they would not be sending donations and that they thought it was a complete cock-up . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Investment income is exempted from the 9 per cent national insurance tax , so they would not be touched by Labour 's abolition of the £21,060 ceiling . |
| 15 | They would not be expecting that . |
| 16 | However , if on hearing or reading these sentences people computed their structures , which conform to standard rules of English syntax , and used their knowledge of the semantics of English to interpret these structures , they would not be misled by them . |
| 17 | Other courts might not agree that the rent was fair but unless there was a right of appeal , they would not be empowered to intervene . |
| 18 | Perhaps if we fed our children on some solid doctrine and not gimmicks they would not be leaving the Church in such numbers . |
| 19 | In order to do this they had to be something very unlikely to happen or they would not be regarded as a novus actus interveniens . |
| 20 | ‘ What is common to them all ? — Do n't say : ‘ There must be something common or they would not be called ‘ games ’ ’ — but look and see whether there is anything common to all . |
| 21 | The Nationalrat approved in March 1991 the construction of two rail tunnels through the Swiss Alps , which would take freight traffic off Swiss roads , but they would not be completed until 2015 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A.H.T. Fleming ) and I carefully prepared diagrammatic charts for each Hurricane pilot of probable times , courses and distances to that they would not be lost should they become detached . |
| 24 | The officers believe Elizabeth and Julie had been sunbathing naked on the remote beach , confident they would not be seen . |
| 25 | They represent true urban communities ; they would not be trying to mimic the countryside . |
| 26 | His reported reaction was that if his order could answer a hundred heretics a year , they would not be beaten by one Catholic . |
| 27 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
| 28 | Even the supposedly rigid ‘ external financing limits ’ imposed by the post-1979 Conservative government in Britain have proved to be flexible in practice ( Heald and Steel 1981 ) , with targets being adjusted when it became apparent that they would not be met . |
| 29 | And they would not be choosing the Communist Party . |
| 30 | The State Department had already decided that if the Jews were turned down by Cuba , they would not be granted entry into the United States . |