Example sentences of "would not be [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing he would not be served for several hours , the mullah went off back to the caravanserai in which he was staying . |
| 2 | Five of the banks which had been expected to take part in the scheme , however , had on Dec. 20 , 1989 , announced that they would not be participating for commercial reasons , although the following day , John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education and Science , had stated that the objectives , principles and framework of the scheme remained unchanged . |
| 3 | He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision . |
| 4 | To begin with , however , the moment of opportunity that was presented in Vietnam by France 's defeat in 1940 was taken by the Japanese ; and although Ho might conceivably and eventually have been right in his optimistic assertion that ‘ if the entire people were united and single minded they would certainly be able to smash the picked French and Japanese armies ’ , the vicissitudes of war and politics would ensure that , for a while at least , they would not be required for such a formidable task . |
| 5 | It was still early ; the tourist train from Cuzco would not be arriving for another two hours . |
| 6 | He never writes a memo saying you know we are supporting or attacking this government as about this election campaign , never , but journalists know what his view is and they write in a code with that view and if they did n't they would quickly find out where they should be and it would not be working for one of those newspapers and the thing that 's quite perverse about it is the . |
| 7 | Mr Grosz said that he would remain ‘ active in the movement ’ but would not be standing for any elected post . |
| 8 | She found the marching pace tiring and her clothes would not be recommended for military training , but she rarely complained . |
| 9 | Little wonder Souness took great pleasure in announcing that Grobbelaar would not be released for international duty with Zimbabwe . |