Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [vb infin] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Even if she was sitting next to him , complaining about his driving , her own imminent decease would not compensate for the depression generated by his own .
2 ‘ In other words , we would not vote for the ball being thrown in any direction , for instance to someone running onto it from deep .
3 The French Communist Party ( PCF ) , whose votes would have been needed for its success , boycotted the session ; it had declared that while it did not support the government , it would not vote for the motion , which it described as a " manoeuvre " .
4 would not stand for the stallion ;
5 The two pacts under discussion with the United Kingdom and France concerned training , joint military exercises and military supplies ; unlike the agreement with the USA they would not allow for the stockpiling of military equipment in Kuwait .
6 Because of this fluidity in royal land-holding a list of all the known royal estates from the whole Merovingian period would be misleading ; it would not allow for the pattern of acquisition and alienation .
7 The head of the Soviet space marketing agency Glavkosmos [ see pp. 36636-37 ] , Aleksandr Dunayev , confirmed on May 16 that the shuttle craft Buran [ ibid. ] would not fly for the remainder of the year and that its next mission would be determined by the financial return from potential payloads .
8 Italian farmers claimed that some of its modern manifestations were inspired by pesticide , but pesticide would not account for the hue of those ravishing little sprigged seaweed trees on the Tuscan hillsides in the frescoes at Monte Oliveto .
9 Though an increased incidence of cancer could be due to ascertainment bias because hypertensive patients are under closer medical surveillance than normotensive patients , this would not account for the association between mortality from cancer and blood pressure .
10 IT 'S a shot Gary Lineker would n't miss for the world — his baby son George on the road to recovery .
11 I would n't play for the team if they paid me .
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