Example sentences of "would not [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were closed down suppose 750 of the men would not expect to find another job and would have to live off social security payments . |
| 2 | As a responsible public body , we would not continue to give active support to an industrial project which would be a health hazard ’ . |
| 3 | But it would not do to show any emotion before the giants , who had all gathered to see Floy and Snodgrass off , or before Balor , who was waiting in high good humour at the unexpected excitement of a journey to the Fire Court . |
| 4 | Who , after all , would not prefer to hear both sides of the argument rather than one ? |
| 5 | Obviously one would not want to see that scene again . ’ |
| 6 | For a country the size of England , such a tiny league would be a waste of resources and Cooke , presumably , would not want to attend second division games , even to view players such as Nottingham 's Martin Pepper , a flanker of England quality . |
| 7 | Many people would not want to call these states democratic either . |
| 8 | The border between a free and charged service is always , however , a source of inequity , and I would not want to remove one anachronism to introduce others . |
| 9 | The Tories did come near to letting Neil Kinnock steal the election from us , but if the party either blames it all on Chris Patten or just forgets the matter as a bad dream , it would not deserve to win next time . |
| 10 | At first sight Burkina Faso — the ‘ Land of the Incorruptible ’ — would not appear to have enough wealth to make corruption possible . |
| 11 | Warning and volenti would not appear to have any chance of success in this case . |
| 12 | Similarly the creation of a charge for a fixed amount in favour of the husband , and the repayment of that charge , would not appear to involve any liability for capital gains tax ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 , s251 provides that there is no charge to capital gains tax on repayment of a debt to a creditor ) or inheritance tax . |
| 13 | He also said that he would not undertake to follow best practice while it differs from the operational guidelines . |
| 14 | We are thinking of people between the ages of about 35 and about 60 years ; but one would not care to argue these limits to within five years or so . |
| 15 | In cotton weaving rates in 1808 had fallen so low that weavers were reported to be working upwards of fifteen hours , even to twenty , but as an employer remarked it was an impossible situation to sustain and a man would not choose to work eighteen hours if he could live from the labour of twelve . |
| 16 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
| 17 | ‘ There are many who would not like to see this thing progress . ’ |
| 18 | But even if Patrick Milligan had known the size of ‘ Buck ’ O'Hara 's munificence , he would not have raised any objections . |
| 19 | A hurricane would not have dislodged those styles . |
| 20 | I actually put forward an amendment , to the police authority , whereby we take that er , million pounds o , of pensions , and by a certain amount of slight of hand , it be put back into county balances , and then re-allocated back to the police authority for this year , and that would have added an extra million to the base budget and it would not have cost this county council one extra penny . |
| 21 | ‘ She would not have exhibited such joy as you are doing , ’ said the new Lord Dacre drily . |
| 22 | In the circumstances , the article was moderate in tone and presented both sides of the case ; it would not have impaired judicial authority or added much to the growing moral pressure on the manufacturers to settle the claim . |
| 23 | If they had done that in '31 , we would not have played any cricket . |
| 24 | But clearly the old tale from Herodotus would not have survived 2,500 years without any supporting evidence whatsoever , so how can the rare cases that have kept the story going be explained ? |
| 25 | It is beyond dispute that advances in medicine and improvements in living conditions have enabled individuals who at previous times would not have survived severe illness or chronic handicaps to live on , perhaps with some disability , into their seventh , eighth , and ninth decades . |
| 26 | No details on coherence of the supersecret X-ray laser demonstrated two years ago at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been reported in public , but it seems that that device probably would not have generated coherent output for similar reasons |
| 27 | And let me tell you , if you were to have come into our servants ' hall on any of those evenings , you would not have heard mere gossip ; more likely , you would have witnessed debates over the great affairs preoccupying our employers upstairs , or else over matters of import reported in the newspapers ; and of course , as fellow professionals from all walks of life are wont to do when gathered together , we could be found discussing every aspect of our vocation . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , Emily Bronte never went to Ireland ( nor did her grandfather travel to England ) , so I am afraid she would not have heard any story ‘ at the fireside on the farm at Drumballyroney in Co . |
| 29 | The two enquiries above clearly have a common source — delays at the DHSS — but the bureaux recording system would not have highlighted that difficulty . |
| 30 | Beforehand she had combed her hair by the light of the flashlamp , smoothed and rearranged her clothes but even if she had n't Moran would not have noticed this evening . |