Example sentences of "would not [vb infin] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 2 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 3 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 4 | He wanted them to gather last Friday and be absented from their weekend round of Championship matches , but even Albert Ferrasse , the autocratic French Federation president , would not stand for that . |
| 5 | And he , Alexander Augustus Hope , Colonel , at your service , gentlemen , would not stand for another coarse word in her presence , DID THEY HEAR ? |
| 6 | Americans " would not stand for this much longer . |
| 7 | I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here . |
| 8 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
| 9 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 10 | The unions said the minister promised them in a private April 19 meeting that the operator 's status would not budge for two years . |
| 11 | The recent fundamental review of dental remuneration by Sir Kenneth Bloomfield called for ‘ a more robust approach ’ to fluoridation ‘ which would not allow for indefinite procrastination in adopting measures judged by the competent health authorities to be both beneficial and cost effective . ’ |
| 12 | He grew dirtier than ever and often would not shave for three or four days together , till his jaw looked coated or grown over with yellow fungus or sprayed like a car with glistening tangerine . |
| 13 | All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget . |
| 14 | In Mexico the moon covered the Sun for 6 minutes and 54 seconds ; the next comparable solar eclipse would not occur for 140 years . |
| 15 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 16 | Should disaster overtake him and the dreadful rumours become reality , she Joan , alias Anne Mowbray , would not wish for longer life … |
| 17 | De Klerk insisted that such a system would not provide for preferential treatment for any group at the expense of any other . |
| 18 | The White House said that the programme , to be announced tomorrow in a speech to a joint session of Congress , would also include a stab at controlling spiralling health care costs , but that Mr Clinton would not ask for higher contributions from beneficiaries of the Medicare programme , which provides health care for the elderly . |
| 19 | She would not ask for any further exchange of nuclear information , but she must be released from her obligation not to use the knowledge she already possessed in seeking collaboration with other partners . |
| 20 | And King Henry , alone in his chamber , held his head between his hands for fear it should burst with anger and chagrin , and something else which he did not or would not recognise for pure hatred . |
| 21 | The sun would not rise for five hours yet . |
| 22 | But this would not happen for tens of thousands of years , because of the slowness of the upwelling currents . |
| 23 | She would not jump for any of the others , not even Nutty . |
| 24 | The foreman of the drilling crew said they would not work for any company that is in dispute with the local people . |
| 25 | she would not fight for any more . |
| 26 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 27 | And I think what we should have is a fifth person which is an outstanding sales award or something like that which covers all regions cos in Europe you woul you would n't vote for any of them would you ? |
| 28 | That her job would n't start for three months suited her particularly well . |
| 29 | It would n't hurt for some of them throwing away but none the right size of course . |
| 30 | I mean you would n't you would n't think for one minute that Aunty Mary came from . |