Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She would not think of the pitiful remains in the corner .
2 But for the moment she resolved that she would not think of the loathsome interview again until she was in Prague .
3 The Pharisees and Scribes would not eat with the ordinary people as they considered them to be irreligious .
4 This not merely makes direct comparison difficult , but it may also mean that such comparisons would be of questionable value given that they would not relate to the actual situation in which traditional and non-traditional students are competing for places , and in which their work and achievement can be meaningfully compared .
5 KPMG would not comment at the recent agm .
6 Married Sarfraz , of School Road , Hounslow , would not comment on the alleged offences which are said to have taken place last Wednesday .
7 It would not comment on the potential value of the joint venture but published reports put it at around $3,000m , adding that Cable & Wireless and Telstra would share 40% , Benpres would take another 40% , and the rest would go to smaller investors .
8 Officially , the organisation would not comment on the proposed change .
9 The emotional response in a game , play and in drama is a response to an abstraction , to a ‘ bracketing-off ’ from living , and it can be just as intense — possibly even more intense for , knowing it is a second-order experience , one can ‘ release ’ one 's grieving , for example , in a way one would not do in the actual event .
10 Graham , the doubter who would not vote for the local Conservative MP , had even expressed indifference about the Russians taking over South Africa .
11 On Oct. 16 the Romanian National Assembly approved by 324 votes to seven the new Council of Ministers proposed by Prime Minister-designate Theodor Stolojan , who undertook to accelerate reforms and promised that he would continue his political neutrality and would not stand in the forthcoming ( 1992 ) elections .
12 ‘ It 's OUR H-Bomb ! ’ screamed the Daily Express headline after the British test at Christmas Island , which put paid to the still lively hope that the nuclear club would not extend beyond the two super-powers .
13 However , Mr Jordan noted that staffing levels would not benefit in the short term as cutbacks continued across the board in all sectors .
14 It was therefore held by the Court that the fact that all the Member States had signed the Customs Cooperation Council Valuation Convention would not lead to the necessary extent to the uniform determination of the value for customs purposes of imported goods required for the functioning of customs union .
15 ‘ I say 50% , but in fact I expect more [ savings ] , ’ he said , but would not speculate on the exact amount he would save in processing the bank 's total 30,000 phone bills .
16 The majority of drivers — by Niki 's account , or a minority , if you believe James Hunt — had already decided they would not race in the appalling conditions at the Fuji track .
17 Such a problem would not arise in the perfect capital market scenario sketched out above ( although if the qualification provided new information about the distribution of cash flows , there might be an interdependence between the qualification and asset prices ) but if in the real world the qualification caused investors and creditors to withdraw funds , refuse lines of credit or otherwise alter their behaviour , then the qualification might indeed be a self-fulfilling prophecy .
18 The problem was that the robots were usually too big and would not fit into the existing booths .
19 However because ore is a noun and are is a verb , this error would most likely be spotted by the syntactic analysis , because ore would not fit into the same word position as are in the sentence .
20 Chris thought that Angela would not aim for the earlier time , she hated early rising .
21 Labour 's Alan Milburn and Michael Fallon , who is defending the seat for the Tories , said they would not appear on the same political platform as Dr Clarke .
22 Furthermore , a dense , hypertext , semantic network , from which a single printed document was to arise , would include many transition paragraphs that would not appear in the printed document .
23 The women remained firm that unless the entire order was completed they would not pay for the hot whiskies .
24 The men were Dragoons who wore brass helmets covered with drab cloth so the rising sun would not reflect from the shining metal to betray their position .
25 This had forced the tubes inwards in places and as the head studs were dowelled at certain points along their length these areas would not pass through the constricted sections .
26 And there are certain strategic reasons why the I feel that a number of the employment needs of York in terms of location , advantages , and other advantages , would not match with the new settlement criteria once they 're put .
27 Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings .
28 In a message to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali the committee according to the Middle East News Agency on April 9 forwarded a message from Libya : the Libyan authorities would not object to the two men placing themselves at the disposal , via the Arab League , of the UN Secretary-General .
29 sole practitioners would not object to the proposed extra accounting measures if they were aimed at all firms ;
30 Poland would have guaranteed rights of access to the port , but Danzigers were offered fragile assurances by the League that the Poles would not interfere with the internal affairs of the city-state beyond running the railways , maintaining a Post Office , a customs service , a small garrison and munitions dump on the Westerplatte peninsula , and exercising nominal control over the city s foreign policy .
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