Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Dad had made it clear that ‘ young men ’ would not be countenanced until I was at least sixteen . |
| 2 | In the ensuing pandemonium the young musicians played on , but Matron came and took Anna away , scolding her gently for bad behaviour which would not be tolerated once she was settled in . |
| 3 | THE East German army last night intervened in the crisis gripping the country for the first time , warning that ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ would not be tolerated and calling on troops to protect military installations against possible attacks by demonstrators . |
| 4 | THE East German army last night intervened in the crisis gripping the country for the first time , warning that ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ would not be tolerated and calling on troops to protect military bases against possible attacks by demonstrators . |
| 5 | The East German army last night intervened in the crisis gripping the country for the first time , warning that ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ would not be tolerated and calling on troops to protect military installations against possible attacks by demonstrators . |
| 6 | The aim of such a meeting would not be to see whether any staff members have particular responsibility for the event but to try to develop a shared understanding of why it occurred . |
| 7 | He would not be prepared when she asked him why he had sent two men to beat up a pathetic hotel clerk and frighten a vulnerable old woman . |
| 8 | A final decision about segmentation would not be made until at least some words had been integrated into a higher level . |
| 9 | Business deals would not be made where people did not know the other partner to the contract . |
| 10 | The last child , Grace Beatrice , would not be born until the family had moved to 17 Brunswick Place , but once she had arrived we can not but notice an almost uncanny similarity between William 's family and that of his father : each consisted of four boys followed by a girl , with the third child dying in infancy . |
| 11 | He argued that enterprise zones should be established in which detailed planning controls would cease to exist , certain legal obligations on employers such as employment protection legislation would no longer apply , various taxes would not be levied and the overall management of zones would be undertaken not by local authorities but by some other agency . |
| 12 | In this way grammar would not be presented as primary but as a consequence of the achievement of meaning through the modification of lexical items . |
| 13 | But Malcolm Gourlay , BRINDEX 's chairman , said most new fields would be too small to benefit and would not be developed because of the adverse impact of withdrawing PRT relief on the cost of exploration wells . |
| 14 | Held , allowing the application , that the provision in article 5(1) of the 1968 Convention conferring special jurisdiction in respect of ‘ matters relating to a contract ’ required the existence of either a contractual relationship between the parties giving rise to actual contractual obligations , or a consensual relationship closely akin to a contract and with comparable obligations ; and that , since the transactions between the plaintiffs and defendants had been void ab initio , no contracts existed within the meaning of article 5(1) ; that the jurisdiction under article 5(3) was restricted to claims based on tort , delict or quasi-delict and did not extend to claims for restitution ; that article 6(1) was not applicable since under the terms of the order of Steyn J. the restitution claims would not be heard and determined together and , in any event , any irreconcilable judgments would be subject to a final decision of the House of Lords , binding in both England and Scotland ; and that , accordingly , there were no grounds for invoking the special jurisdiction to allow the defendants to be sued in England ( post , pp. 836F , 837B–D , 838E , 840B–D , 842H — 843B , G , G–H ) . |
| 15 | That promise would not be implemented if the Opposition ever came to power . |
| 16 | For if I had believed the opposite of 2 , my belief 1 would not be justified unless I also believe something like 3 . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend correctly identifies that , and the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) will have a difficult task explaining it to patients who would not be treated if his policies were implemented . |
| 18 | In accepting the payments the revenue were doing no more than agreeing that they would not be treated as prejudicing any such right . |
| 19 | " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) . |
| 20 | Kirsty was going off tomorrow to Carol 's and , as Jake had said , the custody hearing would not be scheduled till after Easter . |
| 21 | The effort entailed and the disruption caused by screening the families of probands would not be warranted unless high risk patients could be identified and then effectively treated . |
| 22 | It would not be granted if the court felt it went further than necessary to meet the complaint . |
| 23 | ( Five year cases only ) If you are applying for a divorce because you have lived apart from your husband or wife for at least five years , your application would not be granted if it meant that your husband or wife would suffer grave financial hardship . |
| 24 | ‘ I am a little surprised , Dr Neil , ’ said McAllister prim again , but managing to sneak another biscuit — she really did feel hungry and breakfast would not be served until Matey came down at about seven-thirty — ‘ that you have seen fit to buy it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If in order to decide the question of jurisdiction it is necessary to determine finally whether a contract exists or not it would seem to follow that if the conclusion arrived at was that no contract existed then ex hypothesi the conditions of article 5(1) would not be met and the court would have no jurisdiction . |
| 26 | The public transport safety target would not be achieved if single-pilot public transport operations by pilots over sixty were to be permitted . |
| 27 | During the budget debate , Mitchell spoke for 10 hours and Jones for five , leading the Prime Minister to announce that time limits would be applied in future debates and the live broadcasting experiment would not be repeated because of opposition filibustering . |
| 28 | He said the colonel had assured him that attacks on embassies would not be repeated and difficulties over foreigners obtaining exit visas had been ended . |
| 29 | She was the first witness to some of the most distressing scenes between the Prince and Princess of Wales , and was determined that the same mistakes would not be repeated when another newcomer joined the firm . |
| 30 | Euthanasia had been openly practised in the Netherlands for a number of years since a legal ruling that doctors would not be prosecuted provided an established set of guidelines were adhered to . |