Example sentences of "would not [verb] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | April 30 : visit by Prime Minister Popov to NATO headquarters and statement that Bulgaria would not sign a security treaty with the Soviet Union which that precluded it from joining other alliances . |
| 2 | Even on the gallows such men would not bite a poison pellet . ’ |
| 3 | The organisers claim they were dissuaded from going ahead with the event because of the tone of a letter from the DTI which said it would not grant an import licence if one were needed . |
| 4 | I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before . |
| 5 | She would not wear a wedding ring . |
| 6 | The more impressive the animal the greater the feud ; the fights between Professors Cope and Marsh in the last century over the dinosaur remains of North America include examples of double dealing that would not shame an oil tycoon . |
| 7 | BORIS Yeltsin , the Russian President , suffered two serious blows last night when the country 's highest parliament voted to strip him of direct control of the government by July , and Ukraine made clear it would not ratify a landmark arms treaty between the United States and the former Soviet Union . |
| 8 | In fairness to Keynes , he had argued for a much wider , multilateral system than was in fact agreed , though even this involved the assumption that Britain would not face a dollar problem after the immediate postwar financial adjustment [ Keynes , 1946 ] . |
| 9 | The Leader of the Opposition promised explicitly that anyone earning less than £21,000 a year would not pay a penny tax extra in income tax or national insurance under a Labour Government . |
| 10 | Again these changes would not enable a requesting State to impose its own views on a requested State . |
| 11 | I certainly would not choose a Dwarf Angel or Regal Tang as inhabitants . |
| 12 | However , the death or incapacity of experts does not seem to have presented any problem in practice , and in any event the court would not allow a rent review to be frustrated by a breakdown in the machinery . |
| 13 | The table is built up by calculating p(0) , and hence the probability that any given address would not have a home record allocated to it . |
| 14 | Thus if the confidential information was published in full detail then the initial recipient would not have a head start . |
| 15 | He would not predict a growth figure for the full year , saying ‘ we never forecast future figures . ’ |
| 16 | This is because the output logogen system is solely for producing words , and the input logogen systems can only recognise words — a spoken or printed non-word would not cause an input logogen to respond , and hence non-words can not enter the mental lexicon at all . |
| 17 | The government 's starting point with regard to block funding was that they would not provide a safety net . |
| 18 | In February 1965 , the new Labour Postmaster General , Tony Benn , asked the chairman of the BBC , Lord Normanbrook ( ‘ a stupid man … at the very centre of the Establishment ’ Benn thought ) , and the Director-General , Sir Hugh Greene , why the BBC would not provide a radio service to satisfy the demand being fed by dilapidated old rust-buckets moored in the North Sea blasting rock music to the mainland day and night . |
| 19 | Opposition criticism of the decision increased during early February ; Shekhar was eventually forced to act when Congress ( I ) announced on Feb. 16 that it would not oppose a no confidence motion against the government unless the refuelling was halted . |
| 20 | Undertakers rarely advertised , for theirs was — and remains — a trade where discretion took precedence over high-profile marketing and one would not see an undertaker publishing testimonials from satisfied customers . |
| 21 | ‘ I would not test a business journalist for mechanical comprehension , ’ Hamilton-Phillips says . |
| 22 | The American people and the Congress would not support an aid program which did not show a coordinated approach to Western European unity . " |