Example sentences of "would not [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I 'd not presume to say what is needed . " |
| 2 | would you feel you 'd not want to do it all that time then Belinda ? |
| 3 | I 'd not bother to swither over who sent them ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd not wish to argue , Elizabeth Roisin , and we ourselves know that the Macleans sit on the left hand of God Himself , but Abbot Kenneth could be objecting that a claim to actually be the Lord sounds a touch excessive . ’ |
| 5 | I realise my husband has his set ways , and I 'd not wish to cause you further work . ’ |
| 6 | If she pressed very hard then her mouth would not open to scream . |
| 7 | An and I must admit that I would n't , I would not expect to see anybody delegated within the contract at less than M S one level . |
| 8 | Figure 24.4 gives an example ( drawn from trajectories on the screen of a videotape of the motion ) of how one might see the bob moving if one glanced at it at a succession of equally spaced times — although one would not expect to see just this sequence ever again . |
| 9 | This is an undesirable situation because a user of a script recognition system would not expect to write a word , and have it recognised as something which is not a word . |
| 10 | However , you should also make it clear that you would not expect to come in and immediately start changing things for the sake of it . |
| 11 | In the context of a linguistics textbook , especially one on syntax , we would not expect to have to interpret two continuous cited sentences as describing an event sequence . |
| 12 | If it were closed down suppose 750 of the men would not expect to find another job and would have to live off social security payments . |
| 13 | But to meet two gentlemen on the road — we would not hope to meet them off it . |
| 14 | A few pages would not suffice to describe an idea that he required a thousand pages of his Life Divine to illumine ; my purpose in giving these few passages is to point in one of the directions that the creative mind can travel to find other worlds of serene delight and magnificence . |
| 15 | Even the excision of the entire limbic brain would not suffice to remove aggression . |
| 16 | Incredulity greets even more esoteric difficulties surrounding the non-appearance of those fans who would not go to watch Scotland wherever they were playing . |
| 17 | She said she could not and would not continue to deal with Mr Sloan . |
| 18 | As a responsible public body , we would not continue to give active support to an industrial project which would be a health hazard ’ . |
| 19 | The unifying factor was Ho Chi Minh , acting as agent of the Comintern , and while it would not manage to suppress its nationalist tendencies indefinitely it was for the moment clearly identified with the Vietnamese working class . |
| 20 | It would not do to exalt a figure who had been executed by the Romans for crimes against the Empire . |
| 21 | It was some way from the lodging , and Paul 's attentions still made walking difficult ; it would not do to arrive dishevelled and swaying , and she had to use some of Mrs Gracie 's money on a cab . |
| 22 | It would not do to ask her to drive back to Antibes that evening . |
| 23 | It was no part of Owen 's plan to let his whole company lurk there , now that they were compromised ; in case of close inquiry that would have been all too clear an indication of Llewelyn 's unofficial complicity in the enterprise , and however little doubt Isambard himself might have on that head , it would not do to let it be established and admitted . |
| 24 | It would not do to alienate my oldest friends . ’ |
| 25 | However , it would not do to dawdle . |
| 26 | It would not do to underestimate Li Yuan . ’ |
| 27 | It would not do to rush about blindly elsewhere . |
| 28 | It would not do to approach too quickly . |
| 29 | It would not do to deify a rebel against Rome . |
| 30 | It would not do to have Miss Blagden imagine she bore any grudge . |