Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proportional representation would not make majority government of this kind impossible ( we would have it if more than 50 per cent of the electorate wanted it ) but it would make it very much less likely . |
| 2 | One would not expect coral thickness exceeding 90 m ( 300 ft ) if only glacial control had been involved in the formation of coral islands . |
| 3 | If only they had had the sense to invest in cleaning up our power stations , as the Germans have done , we would not watch electricity industry representatives and Ministers rushing around trying to find cheap fixes to meet their European obligations . |
| 4 | It would not affect trade union activity and public associations . |
| 5 | At a meeting of the UN Security Council on Dec. 7 , it was made clear that a prospective resolution calling for a Middle East peace conference would not achieve US endorsement . |
| 6 | Supply said she would not start cookery lesson until she returned . |
| 7 | I am aware that canteen services at 15p a day and luncheon vouchers would not attract income tax , but I am not sure about the £2 . |
| 8 | When Her Majesty decided that she would not pay poll tax , even though it was supposed to be levied on every adult in the country , it changed people 's thinking , he says . |
| 9 | Shop stewards would lead unofficial disputes even in a downturn , confident that management would not dare attempt victimization . |
| 10 | BEG TO DIFFER : People would not dare refuse money for fear of a hijra curse |
| 11 | I have used this quite a lot for cardigans for an elderly lady , who was a bit of a traditionalist and would not have tuck stitch , in which the ‘ wrong ’ purl ) side is used as the right side . |
| 12 | I would not claim specialist knowledge of penal systems in Britain or overseas but offer my observations as those of an interested and reasonably informed member of the general public . |
| 13 | They had to entertain the visitors and Felipe would not let Maggie slide out of it . |
| 14 | A minister need only let it be known directly that he would welcome such demonstrations of ‘ spontaneous ’ violent support , or at least would not use police power to suppress it . |
| 15 | Any less than 8 , while developing some strength , would not stimulate muscle growth , and any more than 12 would lead to increased muscular definition but no growth in size . |
| 16 | In The Hague , Alatas told the Netherlands Minister for Development Co-operation , Jan Pronk , that Indonesia would not accept Netherlands aid — suspended after the massacre , but resumed after publication of the KPN 's findings — if the Netherlands continued to insist on linkage with respect for human rights . |
| 17 | The first such means involved the King and the second the army , but both rested on the assertion that Ulster would not accept Home Rule . |
| 18 | The Attorney General Ignacio Morales Lechuga said in an interview in the New York Times of July 27 that henceforward Mexico would not accept US aid directed towards combating drug trafficking . |
| 19 | Mahathir warned of possible US pressure to gain trade concessions , in an attempt to strengthen its economy after the Gulf war , although former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the conference that the USA would not seek world domination . |
| 20 | This would not suit meadow cranesbill and red campion . |
| 21 | Department of the Environment ministers announced that though they had been advised that the statue was part of the listed building , and that consent was therefore required for its removal , they none the less considered it was a chattel , and would not take enforcement action . |
| 22 | " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) . |
| 23 | Clearly if a wine bar were to find that the catering side of the business brought more trade and wished to convert part of the bar area into a restaurant , this would not be a material change and would not require planning permission . |
| 24 | The first task that faced the Government after the publication of Sandys ' White Paper of 1957 was to convince its European allies , the United States , and the Commonwealth , that nuclear weapons were a valid substitute for manpower , and that the proposed reductions in British forces deployed overseas would not increase world instability . |
| 25 | Nestle Foods Corporation said it would not buy Salvadoran coffee for 30 days in response to a consumer group campaign against the war in El Salvador . |
| 26 | Time was that decor in a tank consisted of a backdrop , a gravel substrate and a few bits of rock from the back garden that you hoped were inert and would n't affect water chemistry . |
| 27 | Tom would n't wear rain gear because he could n't find a set to really fit his 6ft 3in frame , so it was hard work for me to keep him dry . |
| 28 | And er I he used he used he u used to take lunch he would n't he would n't take tea dinner he used to have like to have tea in a bottle . |
| 29 | COLBERT : Yeah , you would n't take Pottz home to dad . |
| 30 | ‘ They would n't dare treat cabin passengers the way we 're treated ! ’ |