Example sentences of "would not [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child would be cared for ; would not even miss a mother she had never really known … |
| 2 | They could go into land without asking permission and farmers would not even say a word , but that has been upset now . |
| 3 | Rickie would not even try a sandwich , but instead pushed his plate away and lit a cigarette . |
| 4 | My father would not even allow a radio in the house , and when I suggested getting a TV set for him and my mother he adamantly refused , saying that the wireless had been the death of good conversation , and that TV would be the death of the family . |
| 5 | Mrs Crumwallis 's medical ministrations were so notorious for their vagaries that even Toby , a healthy young man with no great tolerance of the sick , would not willingly subject a boy to them . |
| 6 | Firstly , where are the political , legal , and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states ? |
| 7 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 8 | For example , an asset such as land would not normally attract a depreciation charge but it would result in principal charges to revenue if it was financed by loan . |
| 9 | This leads to the following definition of economic earnings per share : subject to the restriction which implies that the present value of new external funds must sum to zero over the life of the firm , otherwise the firm would not effectively have a budget constraint . |
| 10 | To the credit of both Hortense and Le Bas , it was agreed that Louis-Napoleon should be enrolled in the High School at Augsburg , a move which it was hoped would not only remove a tendency to idleness and day-dreaming but would also give him a chance to make friends with other boys of his own age . |
| 11 | According to the Israelis , when Shamir saw Bush in Washington he was able to get , as the price for no pre-emptive attack on Iraq , a promise that the US would not actually support a conference on the Middle East when the war was over . |
| 12 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 13 | Failure to mark out explicitly the structural organisation of what a speaker wishes to communicate may make the addressee 's task of interpretation more difficult , perhaps , but , by itself , would not necessarily constitute a failure to communicate . |
| 14 | However , the fact that the other local minima found by the algorithm were all less than 0.15% greater than this value indicates that the path length would not necessarily have a minimum coinciding with the best probe order in other data sets containing many repeats , a fact illustrated by chromosome III . |
| 15 | We would not necessarily seek a contribution from the previous insurers where the remedial work required to rectify the damage occurring whilst we are on cover has swamped any pre-existing damage . |
| 16 | I know dad would n't particularly like a stranger living in . |
| 17 | I would n't exactly say a lady of leisure |
| 18 | She would n't even rent a place , she 'd just start making babies . |
| 19 | Many bands would n't even have a career because their careers were based on Bob Dylan 's songs . ’ |
| 20 | He would n't even find a tin of condensed milk , because his mother always opened tins on the day she bought them . |
| 21 | You probably would n't even recognise a moment like that today if it happened , now they 've turned us into football TV junkies with all this coverage . ’ |
| 22 | It , it is , it , it is seen as a possibility that if you use carry forwards as a way of finding the reductions , A you would n't actually reduce a service on the face of it , and you would also , it would also give you a chance to examine where those reductions in services could be found in the coming months , er , rather than take decisions immediately . |
| 23 | We 've had some discussion with the College to seek to resolve this , and the proposals erm , are set out in paragraph four , three , er , in that it would mean that the College would not take over the ownership of the site , er , and it , but , but they would continue to occupy their part of the site er , effectively rent free from the County Council , but if , at any time , they decided they , the College wanted to move away from the site , it would revert to the County Council , it would n't actually become a College asset . |
| 24 | " I would n't ever tell a lie , sir . " |
| 25 | Erm cos I 'd always said ooh I would n't ever have a sunbed and all that , but I did in the end , cos we were n't gon na go anywhere so |