Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 2 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 3 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 4 | I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here . |
| 5 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
| 6 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 7 | The recent fundamental review of dental remuneration by Sir Kenneth Bloomfield called for ‘ a more robust approach ’ to fluoridation ‘ which would not allow for indefinite procrastination in adopting measures judged by the competent health authorities to be both beneficial and cost effective . ’ |
| 8 | All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget . |
| 9 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 10 | Should disaster overtake him and the dreadful rumours become reality , she Joan , alias Anne Mowbray , would not wish for longer life … |
| 11 | De Klerk insisted that such a system would not provide for preferential treatment for any group at the expense of any other . |
| 12 | And King Henry , alone in his chamber , held his head between his hands for fear it should burst with anger and chagrin , and something else which he did not or would not recognise for pure hatred . |
| 13 | The foreman of the drilling crew said they would not work for any company that is in dispute with the local people . |
| 14 | I mean you would n't you would n't think for one minute that Aunty Mary came from . |
| 15 | And if we were able to make a budget erm , without the constraints of the S S A and so on , we would not , erm you know , and without the cuts of business rates as Mr said , there would n't need for any pain anyway . |