Example sentences of "would [vb infin] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | A weighty body of objective opinion — of HMI , teachers , academics and local authorities — had built up during the 1970s to support the common-sense view that a pupil leaving school aged sixteen at the youngest should be prepared for the responsibilities and opportunities associated with the age of majority which he or she would attain no more than two years later . |
| 2 | Such objects do not lie beyond our grasp , as the sceptic might suggest ; for we can hope that every member of the set of statements about what would be observed should be conclusively verified , and in such a case there would remain no further possibility that the material object statement should be false . |
| 3 | ‘ For purely practical reasons we do not permit debates in either House to be cited : it would add greatly to the time and expense involved in preparing cases involving the construction of a statute if counsel were expected to read all the debates in Hansard , and it would often be impracticable for counsel to get access to at least the older reports of debates in Select Committees of the House of Commons ; moreover , in a very large proportion of cases such a search , even if practicable , would throw no light on the question before the court . |
| 4 | ‘ The women he assaulted would think no one would believe their word against that of a respected doctor . |
| 5 | ‘ I would think no jewel thief worth her salt would send a man directly to the hiding spot — no matter how high above the ground she was floating . ’ |
| 6 | Since then , considerable development has taken place , and a similar flood today would affect no fewer than 5,500 houses . |
| 7 | That would be what she would want from life ; she would want no more than that . |
| 8 | I know that you would want no scandal attached to her name . ’ |
| 9 | Dr Rafaelo would want no more to do with her now . |
| 10 | It would make no sense to say that the dots in the picture had a Gestalt of themselves , but to apply this model to the brain and experience would be just like that ; for , if the experience just is a state of the brain , then there is no way in which the character of the experience can be explained as the result of some perspective on the brain . |
| 11 | Several delegates expressed disappointment at the delay in the electricity privatisation timetable , but Mr Wakeham said he would make no apology . |
| 12 | If the poem were a formal mess , reordering the five sections would make no difference ; in fact , such a reordering would destroy the cyclic form . |
| 13 | Whilst the record companies sat on their hands , nervous of another quadraphonic-style fiasco , Karajan announced after seeing the new technology as a working prototype that he would make no new recordings and sign no new contracts with any company that was not committed to digital recording and the earliest possible launch of the compact disc . |
| 14 | Mr Stuart Greenwood , finance director of the kitchen furniture maker Spring Ram , said that Labour 's proposed increase of capital allowances from 25 per cent to 40 per cent would make no impact on his company 's investment plans . |
| 15 | ‘ If you came from just down the road it would make no difference . |
| 16 | Although I was tempted to think that such a short time would make no difference , I knew that when I got near to Kano , if I got that far , every minute would count . |
| 17 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
| 18 | It would make no difference to him . |
| 19 | ‘ They said flotation would make no difference to AMV , and they kid themselves it 's still the same , but it is not . |
| 20 | I explained that this would make no difference as the results would be the same , whether the past lives were real or simply figments of her imagination . |
| 21 | His idea was that this would make no difference to those who knew how they were going to vote anyway , but could sway the others ; the floating vote , I suppose . |
| 22 | Oldham manager Joe Royle would make no comment , but his centre forward Graeme Sharp said : ‘ Cambridge adapted better to the windy conditions and could have had a goal or two more . ’ |
| 23 | He knew his own country was falling back to heathenism again ( if only on the model of Saruman , not Sauron ) , and while mere professorial preaching would make no difference , a story might . |
| 24 | As for Iraq 's engineers , Mr Hussein 's demise would make no difference to their ability to build a bomb . |
| 25 | This time the terms imposed upon him and his followers were much more humiliating : they had to ‘ give such surety as it shall please to our lord the king ’ that they would make no further trouble . |
| 26 | Almost immediately Philip , realising what an opportunity such an appeal for help gave him , declared that he would make no lasting settlement with England unless the Scots were included in it . |
| 27 | And to come in and turn it upside down would make no sense , that would be bad management . |
| 28 | Government supporters would make no difficulties over the fact that the Criminal Justice Bill , as introduced , contained no provision for the abolition of capital punishment . |
| 29 | The appendix does not have any function in man ( i.e. it is a vestigial organ ) and therefore its removal would make no difference to Julie 's normal activities once she had recovered from the operation itself . |
| 30 | Perhaps , thought Hazel wryly , teeth and claws would make no impression on that great , firm body and shining pelt . |