Example sentences of "would not [verb] [prep] any " in BNC.

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1 Our white 's qualities would certainly tend very much to preserve him to a good old age , and yet he would not suffice in any number of generations to turn his subjects ' descendants white …
2 Despite Zenith continuing to represent an unspecified percentage of Bull 's losses for 1992 , Pache would not commit to any drastic changes in that area .
3 His promotion led critics , including the centre-right Social Christian Party ( COPEI ) and the left-wing Movement towards Socialism ( MAS ) , the two main opposition parties , to dismiss the reshuffle as a " cosmetic " operation which would not lead to any significant changes in government economic policy .
4 Children are not always concerned with the size of clothes in which they dress up and the teacher would not intrude in any imaginative role play through an inappropriate concern for mathematics .
5 We were told that sunglasses would not fit in any department of the store , and the carousel and mirror required would take up too much space .
6 NT would not appear on any of the bigger selling RISC processors — Sparc , RS/6000 or HP — for at least a year , probably two , said Michels , due to the difficulties of porting it to big-endian architectures .
7 The propagandists go so far as to assume , even to assert , that it would not result in any splitting of the party vote : in other words that votes transferred from Dandy or Deadman or Doughty would go to another of these three running-mates and not elsewhere .
8 The Labour Party officially replied to the ILP on 9 March as follows : Your suggestion for " an immediate consultation between representatives of all sections of the working class " is one which , in the considered opinion of the National Executive , would not result in any agreed policy of " common action " , in view of the fundamental differences which exist , for examples between the Labour Party and its associate movements on the one hand and the Communist Party on the other .
9 We would say : ‘ It is light ’ , but would not refer to any particular thing by the ‘ It ’ .
10 It was also trying to persuade large drug companies to invest in rainforest protection ; investment which would not stem from any sense of altruism on their behalf but because , for the industrialised world , the value of medicines derived from the rainforest runs at over forty billion dollars per year .
11 Putting these together , it would mean that a life-saving service would not have by any means the highest priority if the lives saved were few or were ones of mere existence .
12 Before the Act the courts would not interfere with any decision by a local authority relating to a child in its care under statutory authority unless the local authority had itself brought the matter before the court , or the facts were such as to entitle the local authority 's decision to be challenged by way of judicial review : A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 , 373 , per Lord Wilberforce .
13 He had neither the patience nor method to understand properly how they worked and he would not bow to any instruction other than his own perusal of certain manuals and textbooks .
14 No doubt he himself would have difficulties : but he thought that the Conservatives , without entering into any general undertaking , would support his Government , which would not embark upon any extravagant legislation ; and in this way the King 's Government might be carried on for another Session or even longer .
15 At a news conference on Dec. 8 , Vellayati and Dumas reaffirmed their governments'commitment to recent UN resolutions on the Gulf crisis , although Vellayati added that Iran would not participate in any war against Iraq or another country in the region .
16 The EPLF would attend the conference to be held before July 1 , but would not participate in any government subsequently formed .
17 Many parties were expected to take up the offer , although Fernando Belaúnde Terry , a former President and leader of the Popular Action ( AP ) party , stated that unless the holding municipal elections was restored to the current year [ see below ] , the AP would not participate in any talks .
18 All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget .
19 But she would not reveal to any of them what the others had prescribed .
20 The Rev Angus Smith , chaplain to the oil industry , said the service would not focus on any single tragedy , but would be an appropriate act of remembrance for all .
21 Camden Council required retention of the listed parts only , and , furthermore , would not agree to any offices on the site .
22 Nu said openly that , ‘ although the London agreement looked very well on paper he strongly suspected that HMG had first of all made sure that the frontier peoples would not agree to any form of union with Burma ’ .
23 But this would not count in any way against language 's being innate .
24 She would not ask for any further exchange of nuclear information , but she must be released from her obligation not to use the knowledge she already possessed in seeking collaboration with other partners .
25 The only greenbelt erm er in North Yorkshire er is the is is the West Yorkshire statutory greenbelt in the Western part er of Selby District Council , but the area of land the area of search that we have defined as about er ten miles would not take in any er would not be of relevance to the West Yorkshire greenbelt .
26 Although this amendment would not apply to any method other than dumping ( such as penetrometers or drilled emplacement ) , it would form an unwelcome precedent for those who look to the ocean as a solution to their problems of managing waste .
27 She would not jump for any of the others , not even Nutty .
28 The foreman of the drilling crew said they would not work for any company that is in dispute with the local people .
29 she would not fight for any more .
30 Last December , when £2 million was suggested as the likely price for their property , Mr Widdup and his 62-year-old wife made it clear they would not sell at any price .
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