Example sentences of "they would [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 2 | Institutional shareholders have told Sir Derek they would not be prepared to tolerate the introduction of a large minority shareholder on favourable terms . |
| 3 | But they would not be so rich if they were not adept at minimising tax and maximising profits . |
| 4 | He received his certificate in July 1947 but the British coal industry had been nationalised in January of that year and his new bosses told him that in the changed circumstances they would not be able to carry out the undertaking he had been given . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | If they were that common they would not be on page one of the paper . |
| 7 | As for their children , they would not be allowed to live in Britain for any length of time , and while they were here they would be prevented from attending school . |
| 8 | Compartmentation of the interior means that the building is experienced in a new way — details which were once distant ( and which may have been executed in the knowledge that they would not be viewed at close hand ) are seen in ‘ close-up ’ for the first time and in relation to much smaller and more intimate spaces ( Plate 20 ) . |
| 9 | That was also the political judgment of the terrorists , or they would not be so anxious to be interviewed by the media or so against the ban . |
| 10 | He argued at a Westminster press conference that in only 35 out of 403 local authority areas would any claimants gain or break even , despite Mrs Thatcher 's pledge in July 1987 that they would not be adversely affected . |
| 11 | They insist that because the warships would be protecting Japanese property , they would not be contravening clauses in the post-war constitution which forbid the use of armed forces outside territorial waters . |
| 12 | People would still be living here who had been in residence since before the war and were holding on to controlled tenancies until dislodged by offers of cash or other accommodation , but they would not be there much longer . |
| 13 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 14 | But the opposition parties demanded their return , and the king had to promise that they would not be used except defensively , not even to eject Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 15 | But they would not be ready for some time to admit the fact to one another . |
| 16 | Even if he ripped up all the pages on the table in front of him they would not be destroyed . |
| 17 | If they stood apart from their era , assuming human nature can ever do this , their fear was that they would have faded away as irrelevant oddities ; if on the other hand they became fully part of their century their fear was that they would not be giving an alternate witness , another voice . |
| 18 | I asked the Czech manager if they would be at Rutland Water in June and he said they would not be able to afford it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nina wanted to keep holding hands , and hurried the sleeves over her arms so they would not be out of contact for long . |
| 22 | For economy of space occupied by the site of the lift the two inclined ways would generally be side by side and although at the same inclination and extending between the same levels they would not be in the same plane but echeloned so that the one extends , so to speak , from the right side of the head bay to the right side of the tail bay whilst the other extends from the left side of the head bay to the left side of the tail bay . |
| 23 | On talking to parents , we were told that had there been a suitable provision in their own country they would not be in Budapest . |
| 24 | Only that was nonsense , they would not be here , they would be wherever Randolph Henry Ash had put them , if they had ever been written . |
| 25 | Yet there are places where they would not be welcome . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , there was considerable anxiety among advisers that they would not be adequately prepared for the changeover . |
| 27 | They would not be expecting that . |
| 28 | The bank manager , accountant , solicitor or building contractor might have something to offer at a particular time or for a particular purpose but they would not be fully established voting members of the group . |
| 29 | Though they are not much good on paper — if they were they would not be generals — they can not resist the squat little volumes . |
| 30 | Finally , they would not be too keen on obeying the seventh commandment concerning adultery and abuse of sex ( Exodus 20:14 ) . |