Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 2 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 3 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 4 | I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here . |
| 5 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
| 6 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 7 | The unions said the minister promised them in a private April 19 meeting that the operator 's status would not budge for two years . |
| 8 | The recent fundamental review of dental remuneration by Sir Kenneth Bloomfield called for ‘ a more robust approach ’ to fluoridation ‘ which would not allow for indefinite procrastination in adopting measures judged by the competent health authorities to be both beneficial and cost effective . ’ |
| 9 | All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget . |
| 10 | In Mexico the moon covered the Sun for 6 minutes and 54 seconds ; the next comparable solar eclipse would not occur for 140 years . |
| 11 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 12 | Should disaster overtake him and the dreadful rumours become reality , she Joan , alias Anne Mowbray , would not wish for longer life … |
| 13 | De Klerk insisted that such a system would not provide for preferential treatment for any group at the expense of any other . |
| 14 | The White House said that the programme , to be announced tomorrow in a speech to a joint session of Congress , would also include a stab at controlling spiralling health care costs , but that Mr Clinton would not ask for higher contributions from beneficiaries of the Medicare programme , which provides health care for the elderly . |
| 15 | And King Henry , alone in his chamber , held his head between his hands for fear it should burst with anger and chagrin , and something else which he did not or would not recognise for pure hatred . |
| 16 | The sun would not rise for five hours yet . |
| 17 | The foreman of the drilling crew said they would not work for any company that is in dispute with the local people . |
| 18 | That her job would n't start for three months suited her particularly well . |
| 19 | I mean you would n't you would n't think for one minute that Aunty Mary came from . |
| 20 | would n't go for three years for a grant and just |
| 21 | Yes , we have , I mean other types of , of clips that we would n't show for different reasons , for instance we , we got one last week where a chap was decorating his lounge and he 'd locked the camera off on himself , but he had no clothes on , nothing funny happened , he was just decorating with no clothes on . |
| 22 | Okay , we we would n't settle for seven horses , then . |
| 23 | And if we were able to make a budget erm , without the constraints of the S S A and so on , we would not , erm you know , and without the cuts of business rates as Mr said , there would n't need for any pain anyway . |
| 24 | Clearly the tiny outpost was awaiting demolition , but maybe that would n't come for many years . |