Example sentences of "would not [verb] a [noun] [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 | 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 . |
4 | She would not wear a wedding ring . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 ] . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Again these changes would not enable a requesting State to impose its own views on a requested State . |
9 | I certainly would not choose a Dwarf Angel or Regal Tang as inhabitants . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Thus if the confidential information was published in full detail then the initial recipient would not have a head start . |
13 | Small quantities of marine water are inherently unstable , and are best left to very experienced marine fishkeepers , I would not attempt a 2′ tank as a first marine set-up . |
14 | He would not predict a growth figure for the full year , saying ‘ we never forecast future figures . ’ |
15 | The government 's starting point with regard to block funding was that they would not provide a safety net . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ I would not test a business journalist for mechanical comprehension , ’ Hamilton-Phillips says . |