Example sentences of "would not [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if she was sitting next to him , complaining about his driving , her own imminent decease would not compensate for the depression generated by his own . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ In other words , we would not vote for the ball being thrown in any direction , for instance to someone running onto it from deep . |
| 4 | The SDLP 's public support for the Tories in the 1987 General Election caused its former leader , Gerry Fitt to comment : ‘ I would not vote for the SDLP because it is not a socialist party … |
| 5 | The French Communist Party ( PCF ) , whose votes would have been needed for its success , boycotted the session ; it had declared that while it did not support the government , it would not vote for the motion , which it described as a " manoeuvre " . |
| 6 | would not stand for the stallion ; |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We came here to Siena , where I have been before , though to a different house , to visit my husband who accompanied the Brownings last month , the doctor having ordered Mrs Browning to be taken out of this city or he would not answer for the consequences . |
| 9 | The two pacts under discussion with the United Kingdom and France concerned training , joint military exercises and military supplies ; unlike the agreement with the USA they would not allow for the stockpiling of military equipment in Kuwait . |
| 10 | Because of this fluidity in royal land-holding a list of all the known royal estates from the whole Merovingian period would be misleading ; it would not allow for the pattern of acquisition and alienation . |
| 11 | The head of the Soviet space marketing agency Glavkosmos [ see pp. 36636-37 ] , Aleksandr Dunayev , confirmed on May 16 that the shuttle craft Buran [ ibid. ] would not fly for the remainder of the year and that its next mission would be determined by the financial return from potential payloads . |
| 12 | Italian farmers claimed that some of its modern manifestations were inspired by pesticide , but pesticide would not account for the hue of those ravishing little sprigged seaweed trees on the Tuscan hillsides in the frescoes at Monte Oliveto . |
| 13 | Though an increased incidence of cancer could be due to ascertainment bias because hypertensive patients are under closer medical surveillance than normotensive patients , this would not account for the association between mortality from cancer and blood pressure . |
| 14 | But the main effect of the Candida toxins is to depress the immune system — while this may well be important in perpetuating the Candida infection , it would not account for the symptoms described above . |
| 15 | A REPORT PREPARED by the District Attorney , who would not vouch for the figures , said Los Angeles had 150,000 gang members of all races . |
| 16 | We looked for this in vain , though I would not deny for a moment the complete sincerity of Michael Crawford and Sarah Long . ’ |
| 17 | Dominique Strauss-Kahn , France 's trade minister , said his government would not act for a month but could demand retaliatory measures if the US acted . |
| 18 | The Body Shop had also said that it would not apply for an ecolabel for its hair spray , because the standards would allow virtually any manufacturer to claim environmental virtue [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 19 | ‘ You would n't care for a bite to eat afore you takes to your bed ? ’ |
| 20 | You would n't care for a pup , now ? |
| 21 | ‘ Constanza would n't stand for an answer . |
| 22 | In a piece she wrote in 1913 , Ada Nield Chew constructed an imaginary discussion between a Cockney and a Lancashire couple on women 's work and the vote , in which the London husband says : ‘ It would n't do for a man in my position to have a wife going out to work . |
| 23 | IT 'S a shot Gary Lineker would n't miss for the world — his baby son George on the road to recovery . |
| 24 | I would n't play for the team if they paid me . |
| 25 | Well we 'll go on the corporation , wait for a corporation you would n't wait for a corporation , I said wait , wait for the big bus . |
| 26 | ‘ I would n't try for a rebooking for a while , ’ she said , sipping her drink . |
| 27 | I would n't hesitate for a moment to lie my teeth off if it was either useful or necessary . |
| 28 | Er , however we have agreed , and we 're perfectly happy er , to have an undertaking which , obviously you ca n't enter into within the a , a legal document cos we would n't qualify for a corporation grant to make the remaining twenty five percent available to the council as well . |