Example sentences of "would n't [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Primary school children would n't normally be given lessons in robotics until they were several years older . |
| 2 | Since I spend most of my working life wearing clothes I would n't normally be seen dead in , it 's one of my life 's real pleasures . ’ |
| 3 | Well that 's , that 's fine you 've got to start with the easy ones and at your age you would n't , you would n't normally be doing them this hard at all , this is for sixteen year olds who are doing their , their plot paper on G C S E maths so you expect to find , oh hang on this is a bit hard there 's a bit of work in this , but I think you 're capable of doing it . |
| 4 | I realised I 'd be doing the eating so it would n't exactly be going up to heaven in a cloud of smoke , but as CJ says , it 's the thought … |
| 5 | Anyway , he would n't even be arrested not by any constable in Oxfordshire . ’ |
| 6 | But there 's no , it seems to me there 's no fundamental change in Government policy and if you are only bringing forward er a change in policy er to this alteration on the basis that er there was some extra P P G guidance we would n't just be dealing with countryside policy here we would be dealing with a policy about telecommunications , wind farms , a whole raft of things er which which we ought to be really dealing with . |
| 7 | He would n't just be sitting out in the open , would he ? |
| 8 | In the sense that production could be upped but your level of income would n't not be permitted t to rise , . |
| 9 | yo you know , I mean i i i if Andrew were saying he 's he 's he 's pretty limited at maths you would n't really be meaning limited in maths , you 'd be meaning lim , limited in |
| 10 | it has n't cropped up here , but I understand that in other cases where you 've double insurance from two life companies , that two life companies would split the actual benefit fifty-fifty , so it would n't actually be deducting the whole amount , would it , because Abbey Life would still ha , Abbey Life would still have to pay |
| 11 | We would n't still be doing it if we did n't feel that it was creating enough profit in the meantime , and looked like it could create more as it went along . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But I still believe I can win a World or Olympic title — I would n't still be running if I did n't think that . ’ |
| 13 | Had he been so certain then he would n't still be guarding her name so zealously lest any whisper of their attachment got out and so caused Rosemary to decide never to see him again . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , father would n't be ill and cough as he does , and mother would n't always be washing . ’ |
| 15 | If she had n't sulked with her father , fought like a cat with her mother , she would n't now be hanging up Frederick 's threadbare underpants on the drying frame in a tiny back lawn in Lilac Gardens , Tadley . |
| 16 | Well there are problems in the sense that we 've got to do it , in terms of management of the County Council , the control of the capital programme , no I do n't think so , because if , if there was no control on it , you would n't now be picking up and saying ‘ hey we 've got to do something about it ’ . |
| 17 | If only she 'd never met him — had never experienced the exquisite sweetness of being held against his heart — she would n't now be crushed under the weight of this unbearable sorrow . |
| 18 | So , OK , she did n't want to marry Tim — but if she had married him she would n't now be forced into playing the part of Ross 's loving and dutiful wife . |
| 19 | Its water campaigner , Liana Stupples , says the experience of the trials would n't necessarily be repeated if metering became compulsory . |