Example sentences of "would not [verb] [noun sg] on " in BNC.

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1 A FURTHER ATTEMPT WAS MADE BY PHOENIX TO PUBLISH THE ARTICLE IN A FOLLOWING ISSUE — AND AGAIN THE PUBLISHER JOHN MULCAHY WAS TOLD THAT SMURFIT WEB PRESS WOULD NOT PRINT IT ON THE GROUNDS THAT THEY HAD BEEN ADVISED THAT THE ARTICLE WAS DEFAMATORY .
2 On 30th March , the Crown admitted that it would not offer evidence on the charges for two of the murders and they were quietly abandoned .
3 For example , the chairman of Welsh Water stated recently that , in spite of assurances from the Drinking Water Inspectorate concerning the safety of fluoridation plant designed according to the Department of Environment 's code of practice , his company would not continue fluoridation on Anglesey or extend fluoridation into the rest of Wales unless required to do so by the secretary of state .
4 Edward for his part had to accommodate himself to political and financial realities , and was prepared to compromise with the commons in return for taxes , though he would not give way on the fundamental issue of the right to choose his own councillors .
5 The girl Agnes left her home in secret , so that her pregnancy would not bring shame on her family .
6 ‘ I suppose I have learned that I have been able to survive an experience such as this , which certainly I would not have bet on myself to do .
7 This was the first time that a Conservative MP had publicly urged the government to abolish the zero rate of BAT since the before the last General Election when , in a letter to the Publishers Association , the Conservative Party said that it would not impose VAT on books or periodicals .
8 In a letter to the PA sent during the run-up to the General Election last April , the Conservative Party said that it would not impose VAT on books or periodicals .
9 But one well-placed Cabinet source did say privately that he would not put money on it ; there was no such thing as an easy answer to current problems ; and that ERM entry would be tantamount to jumping from ‘ the puddle and into the pond ’ .
10 Consequently the bear-feast — ubiquitous in Siberia — was on the one hand a communal enjoyment of the cooked flesh of the animal , but on the other hand a sacred ritual intended to placate the bear-spirit and ensure that , while the dead animal would live again , its spirit would not seek vengeance on those who had killed it .
11 In view of the international and domestic controversy generated in 1985 when Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone visited the shrine , together with the complications arising from Japan 's strict constitutional separation of church and state — those commemorated by the shrine being revered as Shinto deities — and the recent accusations of incipient militarism made by many neighbouring countries following the enactment of the PKO bill , however , Miyazawa stressed that his visit would be " in a private capacity " and would not take place on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of the ending of the Pacific War .
12 ‘ You would n't want pussy on the table , as Sister Dew might say , ’ said Mark , making a feeble attempt to remove her .
13 And he had six people to work with who would n't waste time on stupid questions about the baby 's emotional welfare , who saw as clearly as he did the greater fascination in the sheaves of data they had already collected on the child since his birth .
14 And er whatever whatever it was they said that er they would n't chance operating on him .
15 The French , who would n't set foot on a plage without weighing themselves down with their entire jewellery collection , are good at finding tiny little shorts with nifty frou-frou tops .
16 ‘ It was n't ideal for hockey and I certainly would n't play football on it , but this is a multi-purpose surface . ’
17 How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him .
18 I 'd been so quiet so that she would n't breathe fire on me .
19 Right there 's some correlation between the two , right , auto violation the residuals right , so where we do n't have residual auto correlation which is the case here , you could actually save the residuals , perform an error less and you would n't find coefficient on residuals with T minus one significant , you 've got an , potentially that 's what these tests for serial correlation do , right , they , you can think of them as r saving the residuals , running a , running this regression , right .
20 as I said yesterday , if I was a betting man , I would n't have bet on getting anything actually , erm , and the partnership between the County Council and , and the District Council have put together the bid for objective two status in Telford .
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