Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an undesirable situation because a user of a script recognition system would not expect to write a word , and have it recognised as something which is not a word . |
| 2 | A few pages would not suffice to describe an idea that he required a thousand pages of his Life Divine to illumine ; my purpose in giving these few passages is to point in one of the directions that the creative mind can travel to find other worlds of serene delight and magnificence . |
| 3 | Aggie still would not contemplate getting a mouser and when Harold raised the roof about the lethal traps she threw them out and blocked up the holes in the flooring and the wooden skirting-boards with old newspapers soaked in lavender water . |
| 4 | It would not do to exalt a figure who had been executed by the Romans for crimes against the Empire . |
| 5 | It would not do to deify a rebel against Rome . |
| 6 | She did n't know how she was going to contain her impatience , but it would not do to make an enemy of Mrs Whittaker . |
| 7 | This does seem a reasonable argument , and I certainly would not want to lose a therapy which could be of real value to people . |
| 8 | But we would not want to miss an opportunity or to court a refusal , ’ he said . |
| 9 | As Gatfield says , ‘ I would not want to sign an artist who demands much moulding . |
| 10 | I certainly would not want to attempt a summary of the route we have taken all the way from the mind-body problem to children trying to win chocolates ; but I do need to make some concluding comments to justify the bold claim in the first paragraph that constructivism makes the mind-body problem less intractable . |
| 11 | Ten thousand pounds will build you the highest column in the world , and will produce an astonishing effect ; fifty thousand pounds would not serve to erect an arch , and when it was erected you would have doubted which , it or the Royal Exchange , was the more magnificent object ; therefore I exhort you to keep to the columnar form . |
| 12 | And you probably would not choose to spend a fortnight up the Amazon with either . |
| 13 | They would not dare risk a shot at anyone within a sword 's reach of their prince and his guard . |
| 14 | I would not like to do a Morrissey . |
| 15 | I would not like to see a repeat of the problems caused when Station Lane was closed at the railway bridge some time ago ! |
| 16 | I am unable to cope with the idea of being any heavier than I am now , and would not like to have a period , since I would feel I had ‘ let up ’ control over my body . |
| 17 | Whilst Alison states at the end of Chapter 11 that she would not like to have a period as it would signify that she had ‘ let up ’ control over her body , Freya feels quite differently , realising that getting her periods back would be a good sign of recovery . |
| 18 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 19 | ‘ A few moments later and he would not have stood a chance . ’ |
| 20 | Now had I known about this it the time , of course he would not have stood a chance of getting into the RAF . |
| 21 | After the judgment , Neil Garrie , head of corporate affairs for London Underground , said : ‘ We did not want to cause additional stress to Mr Hale but the evidence we had would not have supported a settlement of the size of the eventual award . ’ |
| 22 | They were free to raise funds elsewhere if they could , and one at least got a substantial sum from a local authority which would not have supported a project of that nature if it had not come to them from their own school children . |
| 23 | Mr Hellyer , who was in fact too nice-minded to do so , could have sworn , blasphemed , and Oliver would not have turned a hair . |
| 24 | If all Labour Members , who were supposedly so opposed to the Bill , had turned up , the Bill would not have become an Act . |
| 25 | The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake . |
| 26 | This wedge-shaped promontory that led up to the isolated rock on which the castle itself stood was nowhere quite sheer , and stunted trees rooting precariously in its crevices afforded cover for one solitary boy , though they would not have hidden an approach in numbers . |
| 27 | Surely , if there really were a knowable pre-life creator , such would have long since become truly known to humanity , and would not have remained a subject of speculation after many thousands of years . |
| 28 | The Jeffreys in fact would not have understood an Elim movement that was not planting churches . |
| 29 | The defendants were held not liable , as it was probable that the plaintiff would not have worn a safety belt and would therefore have fallen , even if one had been provided . |
| 30 | The Cook , one of only two authenticated portraits of him , would not have gained an export licence . |