Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her endless list of extras include a helipad on the boatdeck and several other features that one would not expect on a boat of her size .
2 An IR system based on ASKs would not depend on a user 's query formulation but would attempt to describe the ASK and thus " construct " an image of user needs .
3 It would not do for it to take place in Moran 's house and Moran would not go to a hotel .
4 Several stated that this was why they would not go to a GP or a Detoxification Unit , even as an out-patient .
5 it would go up as part of the service charge , the management charge would not change as a result
6 Many clients may consider that a replica of the statutory audited accounts is not appropriate and seek to present data which they consider reflects the underlying results of the business adjusted for any ‘ non-recurring ’ items , eg one-off items or items which would not continue with a change of ownership .
7 In the Soviet Union the party and government bureaucracies issued a mass of rules and regulations — so many , in fact , that sometimes ways had to be found to circumvent them so that the system would not grind to a halt .
8 Oct. 1 had been the date set for signature of the accord , the main points of which had been agreed on Aug. 7 [ see p. 39039 ] , but on Sept. 29 Dhlakama announced that he would not sign as a number of issues remained to be resolved to his satisfaction .
9 But I wanted very much to make a harder , stronger pot — a pot that would not break in a fire .
10 McDaid denied any links with the IRA and withdrew after it became clear that the junior partner in the government , the Progressive Democrats ( PDs ) , would not vote for a reshuffle including him .
11 Mr Gerlach , the acting head of state , said later he was ‘ not happy ’ about taking over his new role and would not stand as a candidate in the necessary Volkskammer election .
12 Mr Gerlach , the acting head of state , said later he was ‘ not happy ’ about taking over his new role and would not stand as a candidate in the necessary Volkskammer election .
13 Mr Gerlach , the acting head of state , said later he was ‘ not happy ’ about taking over his new role and would not stand as a candidate in the necessary Volkskammer election .
14 Sonia Gandhi , the widow of the assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi , confirmed on Oct. 12 that she would not stand as a candidate in a by-election scheduled for Nov. 16 in her late husband 's Amethi constituency in the state of Uttar Pradesh .
15 Warm scents rose from a honeysuckle hedge at Monboddo , the much-changed home of a man who , according to Sir Walter Scott , went out at night with a candle to inspect his turnips growing in the fields ; who , hating to sit behind a horse 's backside , would not travel in a carriage and therefore — he was in his eighties — rode to London on horseback ; who took a cold bath every day and damaged his children 's health by insisting they did the same ; and who , when in residence at Edinburgh , gave dinner parties at which his wine-flagons were wreathed in garlands of roses .
16 If the piranha fish did not brush its fins gently against a member of the opposite sex each month it would not exist as a species .
17 The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions .
18 It seems certain that Louis-Napoleon would have preferred a prolongation of his power by legal means , but in the long run it was equally clear that he would not shrink from a confrontation with the opposition .
19 Lord Donaldson said afterwards that his proposal would not lead to a downgrading of justice .
20 It could , for example , consist of a complaint that a rating list had been prepared on an unfair basis in the sense that another ratepayer 's property had been undervalued , even if a revaluation would not lead to a reduction in the complainant 's rate bill .
21 Another concession won by the NFU was clarification that inadvertent damage to a sett would not lead to a prosecution .
22 However , those bases which were changed would not start with a frequency in the population of one in four , as assumed above , but with a low frequency generated by mutation .
23 If you were going to invent a brand new religion you would not start with a cross .
24 True , politicians are by nature optimists , otherwise they would not persist in a trade that offers more kicks than ha'pence .
25 Mr Heslop added that a court would not intervene in a management decision to dismiss a chief executive when allegations of bad faith were being made by him against the chairman and other board members .
26 Who would not disappear like a wraith the moment she turned her back .
27 The fact that no contribution was made to the pension fund during the 31 weeks by the plaintiff would not result in a diminution of his pension .
28 For example , if Linford Christie were a man of such deep religious beliefs that he would not compete on a Sunday and subsequently found out that a qualifying round of the 100m was to be held on a Sunday , he would have to think long and hard before deciding to run the 400m .
29 You state that ‘ without a gun , the row in the bedroom would not end with a corpse . ’
30 But , in my judgment , it would operate against no others ; it would not operate against a person who is not shown to have taken with such notice of the circumstances under which the deed was executed .
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