Example sentences of "would not [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uri Lubrani , co-ordinator of Israeli government activities in Lebanon , stressed in reply that Israel would not exercise the same restraint in south Lebanon that it was showing in the face of Iraqi missile attacks . |
| 2 | Failure to bring about the defection would mean certain imprisonment , possibly death , for if he did not bring matters to a successful conclusion , Manville and his colleagues would not make the slightest attempt to help him . |
| 3 | I have meandered round all sorts of fairly obscure topics , just about pleasing the Chair by remaining in order , knowing that whatever I said it would not make the slightest difference to the outcome of the private Bill . |
| 4 | It is a safe bet that the other parties in contention would not make the same mistake . |
| 5 | The general opinion is that Third World countries have suffered so dreadfully under the debt burden , they would not make the same mistake again . |
| 6 | On 8 December he told his ministers that he had blundered by treating the election as a referendum and would not make the same mistake again . |
| 7 | The right hon. Member for Hertsmere blew the whistle on his colleagues when he disarmingly said that , when he privatised electricity , he would not make the same cock-up as they had done with British Telecom and British Gas . |
| 8 | From common sense one would not expect the mere possession of a regular , orderly arrangement of atoms or molecules to be a cause of weakness , and of course it is n't . |
| 9 | ‘ Its development , ’ says Holyoak , ‘ would not necessitate the great cataclysm of demolition ; the plan is designed so that parts of it can be built independently in phases . ’ |
| 10 | From the tranquility of the first decade of the twentieth century , the Victoria County History recorded : ‘ Farmers and petty employers [ in Combsburgh ] would not engage the best labour , but preferred the inferior hands at low wages … it was , therefore , scarcely surprising there were riots … ‘ . |
| 11 | " A lizard upheld me the wild birds would not eat the white bread " . |
| 12 | The purpose was to give solid ground for disputations , especially with rabbis who would not recognize the canonical authority of books which , though in the Septuagint ( the Bible of the Gentile mission ) , were absent from the Hebrew canon . |
| 13 | IBCA believes that at current stock market levels many Japanese banks would not meet the 8 p.c. capital adequacy requirement . |
| 14 | She would not give the other woman that satisfaction . |
| 15 | They adopted the time-honoured device of spending the night together at an hotel , but Herbert , nervous that something might go wrong , overtipped the chambermaid , who then through misplaced gratitude would not give the required evidence against him . |
| 16 | Given the non-availability of subpoenas , a mere refusal by a potential witness to attend in England may be sufficient , as may evidence that his employer would not grant the necessary leave of absence . |
| 17 | If the vessel is sold unrepaired then the measure of indemnity will be the depreciation in the sale price caused by the unrepaired damage , provided such depreciation would not exceed the reasonable cost of repairs if the vessel had been repaired at the time of loss . |
| 18 | To his dying day the young Count would not forget the fair hand which had tended him when none other had heeded his plight . |
| 19 | This is unlikely , as the absolute magnitude of these stars does not vary much across the dividing line , and in any case would not affect the xx ratio . |
| 20 | The legislation would not affect the flat-rate State pension . |
| 21 | ( The differences in definitions adopted by different countries would not affect the broad pattern of international comparison , although we should be sceptical about small variations between countries . ) |
| 22 | Darlington borough councillors heard the two-storey extension at Walworth Castle Hotel would not affect the ancient part of the building . |
| 23 | The move would not affect the everyday spending power of the British public . |
| 24 | I think they will , but I can not be sure , and I would not want the National Curriculum to force him on unwilling teachers . |
| 25 | The nearest main road is three or four miles away , but the buses would not leave the main road to drop passengers at Portlethen village because the bus companies said that it was uneconomic . |
| 26 | I know them to be human creatures made in God 's image too , the womenfolk most lovely and most temperate ( for the most part ) , and I would not abet the evil Spaniard in his slanders . |
| 27 | A prohibition on sales of property without the Secretary of State 's consent would not achieve the desired objective . |
| 28 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 29 | Although the party failed to gain a seat , Mr Green said it would not deter the Labour group from running again in local polls . |
| 30 | Kraisak Choonhaven , son of former Prime Minister Gen. Chatichai Choonhaven whose government had been toppled by the military in February 1991 [ see pp. 38003-04 ] , announced on Jan. 22 that his father , a former Chart Thai leader , would not contest the forthcoming election . |