Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 April 30 : visit by Prime Minister Popov to NATO headquarters and statement that Bulgaria would not sign a security treaty with the Soviet Union which that precluded it from joining other alliances .
2 Even on the gallows such men would not bite a poison pellet . ’
3 I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before .
4 She would not wear a wedding ring .
5 In fairness to Keynes , he had argued for a much wider , multilateral system than was in fact agreed , though even this involved the assumption that Britain would not face a dollar problem after the immediate postwar financial adjustment [ Keynes , 1946 ] .
6 The Leader of the Opposition promised explicitly that anyone earning less than £21,000 a year would not pay a penny tax extra in income tax or national insurance under a Labour Government .
7 Again these changes would not enable a requesting State to impose its own views on a requested State .
8 I certainly would not choose a Dwarf Angel or Regal Tang as inhabitants .
9 However , the death or incapacity of experts does not seem to have presented any problem in practice , and in any event the court would not allow a rent review to be frustrated by a breakdown in the machinery .
10 The table is built up by calculating p(0) , and hence the probability that any given address would not have a home record allocated to it .
11 Thus if the confidential information was published in full detail then the initial recipient would not have a head start .
12 He would not predict a growth figure for the full year , saying ‘ we never forecast future figures . ’
13 The government 's starting point with regard to block funding was that they would not provide a safety net .
14 In February 1965 , the new Labour Postmaster General , Tony Benn , asked the chairman of the BBC , Lord Normanbrook ( ‘ a stupid man … at the very centre of the Establishment ’ Benn thought ) , and the Director-General , Sir Hugh Greene , why the BBC would not provide a radio service to satisfy the demand being fed by dilapidated old rust-buckets moored in the North Sea blasting rock music to the mainland day and night .
15 Opposition criticism of the decision increased during early February ; Shekhar was eventually forced to act when Congress ( I ) announced on Feb. 16 that it would not oppose a no confidence motion against the government unless the refuelling was halted .
16 ‘ I would not test a business journalist for mechanical comprehension , ’ Hamilton-Phillips says .
17 Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again .
18 We would n't want a stomach pump . ’
19 That would n't serve a greenbelt purpose ?
20 With the vessel bucking through the short waves like an unbroken horse , Trent hoped that they would n't fire a warning shot .
21 ‘ Phena would n't know a soup ladle from a hoe !
22 ‘ I would n't mind a dress shop but I do n't think it would be very nice to help people try on shoes all day . ’
23 You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union .
24 However , the same little collection of components would n't allow a robot arm to interpret the signals from a CCD sensor in a manner which allows the arm to be placed reliably alongside an item on a conveyor belt .
25 Dadda would n't have a phone extension upstairs , preferring to summon him with a shout when it rang .
26 What would you go you would n't have a lump sum ?
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