Example sentences of "[noun prp] would not [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Apart from repeats , Frank Spencer would not be seen again until 1978 .
2 Interviewed by TASS on Oct. 15 , Valery Zorkin , Chair of the Constitutional Court , admitted the possibility that Gorbachev would not be called , accusing him of " seeking to become a martyr " .
3 Ian Griffiths , from British Transport police , said David would not be prosecuted .
4 Though McNish would not be drawn on the exact reasons for the call , it is believed to be for the vacant post of team test driver and understudy for Michael Schumacher and Riccardo Patrese .
5 The European Space Agency ( ESA ) announced on May 26 , apparently in response to financial pressures , that the manned space shuttle Hermes would not be launched until 2005 , if at all .
6 Edward Balliol would not be couched down there , but upstairs in one of the principal bedchambers , for sure .
7 Lang would not be drawn on the exact number of authorities , saying that the 3,300 responses received following publication of the latest consultation paper were still being studied in great detail .
8 But sources yesterday indicated that Suntory would not be involved .
9 The most significant change from the Green Paper was that SERPS would not be abolished but scaled down ; the proportion of earnings on which the pension would be based was reduced from 25 to 20 per cent .
10 Still , Adolf Galland would not be thrown by minor details such as that .
11 However , it was made clear that Cuba would not be admitted into the San José Pact , whereby Mexico and Venezuela sold oil on favourable rates to central American and some Caribbean states .
12 He was a dreamer , dithering and peaceable : Ireland would not be saved by such as he .
13 As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’
14 Is it not a fact that on 3 July last year the Minister of State told my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian ( Mr. Home Robertson ) that the recruitment figures for individual battalions in Scotland would not be released on the ground of security , yet when it suited the Secretary of State 's purpose , he was prepared to release figures showing 67 per cent .
15 In October 1989 the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) ruled that from January 1990 South Korea would not be permitted to restrict imports on grounds of an adverse balance of payments and that import restrictions on all goods were to be lifted by the end of June 1997 .
16 The Archbishop of York said that Charles 's position of Supreme Governor of the Church of England would not be affected by the breakdown of his marriage — not even if he was divorced .
17 It was submitted the Bank of England would not be prejudiced by having to make an application for the variation of a court order in the same manner as any other third party seeking a variation which affects its rights of interests .
18 Then Rodney would n't be tormented like this .
19 But Ruth would not be drawn to an old man .
20 She had the majority support of her staff , but decided to leave , to ensure that the position of her husband Jose Azeredo Perdigao would not be jeopardised as the Foundation 's director .
21 Nell would n't be put off .
22 Dick Hern would not be drawn into comparisons with Nashwan at the same stage of his career , but on yesterday 's evidence Hamdan Al Maktoum could well have a natural successor to his great champion .
23 No : Maastricht would not be touched by the outcome .
24 Maurin tried but Durance would not be stilled .
25 Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska .
26 She agreed , though , that any chronic long-term effects of exposure to Galecron would not be picked up .
27 If they did , the exquisite bouquets from Parisian florist Moulié Savart would not be delivered and Lagerfeld himself would be mysteriously and finally absent from their lives .
28 Sean Walsh would not be drawn .
29 In Miami the immigration inspector announced that the St Louis would not be allowed to dock in any US port .
30 He guaranteed that Sunday 's Rumbelows Cup final between Manchester United and Nottingham Forest at Wembley and the FA Cup semi-final replay between Liverpool and Portsmouth next Monday would not be affected .
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