Example sentences of "would not [adv] [verb] to " 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 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 .
3 He would not even speak to her .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Matthews feels that X-rays could do the job more cheaply and safely — the shells would not even need to be opened up .
7 It would not even occur to most businessmen that the criteria the Revenue employs can be more favourable than those the DSS uses .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The intention of the Merger Regulation was to introduce a ‘ one-stop , merger control , described by Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan as a ‘ system whereby , in the case of smaller mergers , they would be subject only to national regulation … while in the case of the really large mergers which have implications for the whole Community , the European Commission would have the power to intervene , and companies would not normally need to be concerned about the national regulatory authorities ’ .
14 Jen Longbottom says its a race for the country lovers … they try to take people to a part of the country where they would not normally get to … it 's not a race for softies …
15 This would not normally apply to emergency resolutions .
16 Also , Mrs Valerie Riches will speak on the content of many of the sex-education programmes used in British schools , which in practice offer only a moral sexual instruction , and subject the young to ideas which would not normally occur to them .
17 I wonder whether Christ would not rather go to Calvary again than to suffer the unfaithfulness of some of his friends .
18 Who would not rather own to theft and deception within the Church 's writ , rather than put his neck into the sheriff 's noose for murder ?
19 To be completely consistent perhaps Gandhi would not only have to be opposed to the killing of animals for food , but also to the killing of disease-carrying rats , mosquitoes , and venomous snakes , and those forms of plant life that are essential to a vegetarian diet .
20 Sir Austin Pearce , one of the NRM 's guardians , told us via muffled a Tannoy ( uncannily similar to a real station announcement ) that the NRM would not merely look to the past , but also to the present and the future of rail .
21 The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion .
22 ‘ Where there is a danger of eutrophication in this country , ’ says the government , ‘ usually the limiting factor is phosphate , and not nitrate ; if confined this would mean that zones would not therefore need to be designated to prevent eutrophication . ’
23 A Halifax spokesman stressed the £20m provision on loans to the Kentish development Burrell 's Wharf was highly prudent and would not necessarily lead to a loss of the same magnitude .
24 To abandon ‘ news values ’ as the sole criteria of the media would not necessarily lead to a dereliction of duty .
25 In opposition to this , Kay and Silberston ( 1984 ) argue that competition would not necessarily lead to equal efficiency , since publicly owned concerns have the deep purse of public funds on which to draw .
26 Thus birth control groups during the inter-war period were careful to argue that the use of birth control would not necessarily lead to an increase in childlessness or very small families , but rather would result in better planned families and healthier mothers and children .
27 The government had the right to control private investment in the interests of society , and Courtauld agreed with Beveridge that to surrender this freedom would not necessarily lead to the erosion of others .
28 Nor do I try to get in touch with Lord Mountbatten , and I would not necessarily want to .
29 The Committee for Arts and Social Studies confirmed at its third meeting , in April 1966 , that ‘ it was established that courses submitted to the Council would not necessarily have to be directly vocational in nature ’ .
30 That would not necessarily apply to all cases , The hon. Gentleman must remember that many people are willing to work overtime , including Sundays , at peak periods .
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