Example sentences of "would not [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lyons , in fact , would support this view and , whatever other characteristics he might attribute to literacy , or to specific language-systems such as English , he would not associate them with lack of ambiguity , as do Hildyard , Olson and Greenfield . |
| 2 | If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object . |
| 3 | The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top . |
| 4 | They sprang into action when mum Angela Turner said she would not make it to Bishop Auckland hospital in time . |
| 5 | and that acceptance would not preclude them from running a Unionist next time , promises that caused trouble later . |
| 6 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 7 | That would be quite unacceptable to good potential MPs who do not think much of popularity ( their own or other people 's ) and would not demean themselves by deliberately setting out to acquire it . |
| 8 | I would not expect them to pair and breed until they are at least four inches long , so you will have to be patient . |
| 9 | By the same token , he would not expect me to be found playing with his Gameboy . |
| 10 | From across the kitchen he said , ‘ I do n't think anything I have painted this autumn is quite as good as this , but then , I would not expect it to be . |
| 11 | That being so , one would not expect there to be fully formulated justifications . |
| 12 | The lord of Parfois was a law to himself ; if he ever did discover where Master Harry lay buried , the Severn would not stop him from pursuing the dead with his living and virulent hatred , the Welsh border would be no bar to him , even the sanctity of the church would not restrain him . |
| 13 | Mrs Grandison had promised her daughter that they would not inflict themselves on her for a meal — realising that Lady Selvedge might well be something of an infliction — and had assumed that from Victoria they would take a taxi to some Soho restaurant or perhaps Simpsons in the Strand . |
| 14 | But Ellis would not sanction anything above £2.1m . |
| 15 | ‘ I said the money would not change me as a person and it has n't , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Because if he treated her as her father had treated Odette , she knew she would not bear it so patiently , would not bless him on the day he finally left her , as Odette had done , but would go after him with a knife to hunt him down . |
| 17 | But politicizing the curriculum is not the same ( and the authors probably would not suppose it to be the same ) as broadening it . |
| 18 | She might say , and I would not blame her for saying , that the Strangeways riot and the riots associated with it have given cause for a total and radical rethink . |
| 19 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 20 | ‘ But I made a decision that I would not do it beyond the age of 35 , and then I would return to try to make a contribution . ’ |
| 21 | She would not do it at all . |
| 22 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 23 | Mr Koc said : ‘ If you gave me the whole of Istanbul I would not do anything like that . |
| 24 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 25 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
| 26 | So in sense then that er the extent of your injuries really would not debar you from working offshore as far as you understand ? |
| 27 | Will Thorne — MP , trade unionist and patriot — declared that the patriotism of West Ham socialists would not prevent them from taking a strong political stance on relief questions ( SE 15 August 14 ) . |
| 28 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 29 | That would not prevent anyone from calling it what he pleases : |
| 30 | For Emilia , as for himself , Dr Horrocks 's reassurance that miscarriage was a kind of mercy had brought no deep comfort , and Frere would not remind her of it , for he had quickly seen that , in some way he was far from comprehending , the loss was more secondary to her than it was to himself . |