Example sentences of "would [not/n't] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would not on any account join hands with Lucifer . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , I considered most carefully what might be the most opportune occasion to bring the matter up with him ; for although I would not for one moment , as I say , suspect Mr Farraday of inconsistency , it nevertheless made sense not to broach the topic when he was preoccupied or distracted . |
| 3 | However , I would not for one moment deny the continuity and the gradualness of the processes which are changing the earth . |
| 4 | On the other hand , he would not for any money have delegated it to anyone else . |
| 5 | More importantly , the Fellowship gave me the opportunity to study a subject of my choice at a university of my choice : so ( who would not at that time ? ) |
| 6 | Adams stated that he intended to continue his recent discussions with some Protestants in Northern Ireland but would not at this time involve leaders of the two principal Unionist parties . |
| 7 | On the one hand , there were those who , once the prospect of redundancy had been raised , were reconciled to early retirement and to a greater or lesser extent relieved at leaving work , although they were attached to their employer and would not in all probability have left prematurely of their own volition . |
| 8 | remarked that one would not in ordinary parlance say that Desdemona died by accident , because ‘ the horror of the crime dominates the imagination and compels the expression of the situation in terms related to the crime and the criminal alone . ’ |
| 9 | Anecdotal evidence suggests that CATS have not sought out local-government co-operation : they have implemented little that would not in any case have occurred . |
| 10 | In the early months of 1914 the Unionist leaders prepared for this desperate throw , and the plan was only abandoned when the " mutiny " at the Curragh showed that it was unnecessary , for the officers would not in any case agree to coerce Ulster . |
| 11 | Many narrow lanes and yards , including those in Darlington , are desecrated with yellow paint where parking would not in any case be very sensible or even desirable . |
| 12 | That would not in any way restrict the paper 's right to print whatever it wished in the rest of the paper . |
| 13 | I suppose , thought Fenella , that I was rather innocent to think that we could get in so easily , or that the Robemaker would not in some way guard his secrets . |
| 14 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |
| 15 | But I would n't for one moment suggest to the panel that windfalls and recycling of land should n't continue to take place . |
| 16 | He started to lack confidence at the end of last season , but who would n't with that defence . |
| 17 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 18 | It was the kind of story that she would relish but with her blunt ways one could never be sure she would n't at some time let the cat out of the bag . |
| 19 | I think I would respond by saying that I would n't in any sense dispute the need to try to prevent things getting to that point . |