Example sentences of "would not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke noncommittally , and Lydia understood that there were things of which Beuno would not yet speak to her . |
| 2 | After Lamb had blown the whistle on the Pakistanis Dexter seemed to want to wash his hands of anything Lamb was doing — suggesting that the Northants captain 's forthright comments would not just end with a fine and a suspension from his County bosses . |
| 3 | He is said to have derogated the picture as ‘ just juggling about ’ and ‘ copying others ’ , and that the picture would not even serve as a good poster . |
| 4 | Some of honest and good heart would not even speak to a Christian as late as the mid-third century , by which date the Christian story and way of life had become well known , because they suspected them of enormities . |
| 5 | He would not even speak to her . |
| 6 | We would not even pass for distant cousins let alone members of the same nuclear family unit . |
| 7 | But the argument would not even stop at that point . |
| 8 | Traders who might have started a line in meal for the populace would not even think of it , knowing that the government was always ready to step in and depress the price . |
| 9 | We do have and will maintain the links and influence within the Labour Party , or it would not even survive without us . |
| 10 | It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior . |
| 11 | It is the resulting harm ( death ) which still dominates , as is evident from the fact that many forms of conduct fall within the law of manslaughter if death happens to result , whereas they would not even amount to a serious offence if a consequence less than death had ensued . |
| 12 | They work incredibly long hours with no day of rest for a monthly income which in the United States would not even amount to a basic daily wage . |
| 13 | Matthews feels that X-rays could do the job more cheaply and safely — the shells would not even need to be opened up . |
| 14 | It would not even occur to most businessmen that the criteria the Revenue employs can be more favourable than those the DSS uses . |
| 15 | He has an appetite for land and castles I would not willingly see in the King himself , but he 's a more dangerous man than the King . ’ |
| 16 | I wondered what would count as an adequate educational response to individuals being labelled deviant , a response which would not simply take for granted that certain acts were or were not deviant but would look at the whole context of the interaction . |
| 17 | Given that he served in Cabinet for many years , I should have thought that he would be more objective and would not simply take as his evidence two cases from the front page of the News of the World . |
| 18 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |
| 19 | Nor do I see why caregivers should be expected to sustain a focus on personal relationships which would not ordinarily exist in the encounters between young people and adults . |
| 20 | Proposals intended to benefit the rural economy will normally be supported provided that they would not unacceptably detract from the character and appearance and general amenity of the surrounding area . |
| 21 | The public would not easily distinguish between local and national tax payments . |
| 22 | Conversation , not only on that day , got on to An Adventure and would not easily get off it , though we wished to be speaking of other things . |
| 23 | Such legalisation would not magically dispense with the need for policemen , but it would make the needed policing more manageable . |
| 24 | Tendring District Council 's economic development unit will be manning a stand at the Colchester Enterprise Show in July and are keen for small businesses , which would not normally exhibit on their own , to join them . |
| 25 | He also tendered low for a host of tiny contracts — sidings , drains , realignments , even routine maintenance — things he would not normally bother with . |
| 26 | Every community will have its secrets , and every individual in it will have views that they would not normally express to others , but do express to the researcher . |
| 27 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 28 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 29 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 30 | For those regular expert witnesses who feel the need to charge more than £90 an hour ( or £500 for their initial report in a medical negligence case ) an explanation should be proffered to avoid subsequent substantial difficulty on taxation , and the words ‘ as recommended by the BMA ’ would not normally suffice for either the retaining lawyer or the court . |